I remember us having one of these in the 70s and 80s. I think I remember my mom using it <3 times.
We've never had one, but back in Nov the wife got a smaller Instapot so we've got a pressure cooker now. We've used it a couple of times. We haven't done any meat, stock/broth, etc... in it yet. It's supposed to be great for speeding up things like cooking dry beans, and meat and stock/broth.
I'd never heard of one blowing up (unless it was intentional) other than that one pic that has circulated the 'Net
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