Went to the emergency room yesterday after the InstaPot blew up on me. Just 1st degree burns and some awesome drugs. Bandages off today, a little tender but not bad.
Burns are my belly and my arm wrist to elbow including my thumb.
Totally worth the $250 copay going in!
PS: My wife was making soup and said the lid was steaming from the sides a bit. The pressure release valve wasn’t releasing pressure in either position and the lock plunger wasn’t doing anything. I figured no pressure so I’d just tighten it right and boom. Scary for a bit and hurt like hell for an hour. Lucky me for sure!
All I kept thinking is my granddaughter would have been standing there if she was over. So we’re getting rid of the pressure cooker. The risk isn’t with the convenience.
All good questions, I’ve since looked closely at the InstaPot and everything looks fine. My wife may have over filled it but she isn’t sure.
It’s about 8 years old and that might be part of it but if a device like this has a shelf life of reliable functionality there should be mechanisms in place to see least notify me if not prevent its use.
My best guess at this point is my wife didn’t have the lid on right and for some reason the InstaPot decided it was good enough and went with it and just touching the lid was enough for the pressure to overcome the faulty connection.
Either way it sucks ass.