On 7/31/2011 12:54 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
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>> The first time I used a pressure cooker, I was scared to death of that
>> thing blowing up and shooting shrapnel all over the kitchen. That was
>> pretty silly because the working pressure is less than half of your
>> standard passenger car tire. I was just a kid at the time and had to
>> learn how to use it by myself. It was odd that we would even have a
>> pressure cooker because my mom never used it.
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> I like to play with simple math sometimes. Say you have a 12 inch PC.
> That's a radius of 6 inches, squared, times pi and times 15 psi is 1500
> pounds!
>

That sounds dangerous! Guess I better stick with the microwave. :-)