Angela Christine posted:

Maybe they are olds who didn't think to grab their camera right away. Does anyone under 50 even use a pressure cooker?

Phanatic posted:

Why do only old people want to cook food at higher temperatures and less time than in a regular pot?

Phanatic posted:

Why do only old people want to cook food at higher temperatures and less time than in a regular pot?

Phanatic posted:

Why do only old people want to cook food at higher temperatures and less time than in a regular pot?

Angela Christine posted:

Because young people grew up with hot pockets. Convenience food. In some cases their parents also grew up with microwave convenience food, and nobody knows how to use anything as arcane as a pressure cooker.

Recently my mom was hit by a car and for a while had people from a local health authority contractor coming in twice a day to help her with her medication, clothes, making her bed, and supposedly cooking her dinner. The trouble was that most of them didn't know how to cook anything. One of them failed to make canned soup. Didn't realize you were supposed to add a can of water to the can of glop, and apparently didn't read the clear instructions printed on the side of the can. She basically had to stand next to them and talk them through how to do anything, at which point she might as well do it herself. Eventually she gave up and just had them make a token peanut butter sandwich, and she'd make herself something else after they left.

spacetoaster posted:

I'm in my 30's and I have two pressure cookers and a slow cooker that get used a lot.

The pressure cookers are newer and have a hole in the lid stopped with a hard, rubber seal. If the pressure gets too high the rubber seal pops off and steam exits the hole in the lid.

Even with all of that I do not leave the kitchen when the pressure cooker is cooking.

Humerus posted:

I don't think I ever saw anyone post about the West Fertilizer Company explosion that happened in 2013.

Angela Christine posted:

Does anyone under 50 even use a pressure cooker?

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Pressure cookers are great, and the newer ones have at least 3 failsafe mechanisms, making them a lot safer than the old jiggler type cookers.

Also, you can make risotto in a pressure cooker in 6 minutes. It's worth it just for that.

Platystemon posted:

Huh. My understanding had always been pressure cooker failure meant superheated water being shot around the kitchen, not an actual explosion.

Trabisnikof posted:

Correct!



Greg Abbott lost his job...


because he wasn't conservative and anti-regulation enough.

bucksmash posted:

To go along with your post, here's an up-close vid of a guy and his daughter taking video when the explosion happens. The girl's "DAD I CAN'T HEAR I CAN'T HEAR GET OUT OF HERE" is always a bit unnerving due to the utter panic in her voice.

BOOM at 0:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA

Angela Christine posted:

Maybe they are olds who didn't think to grab their camera right away. Does anyone under 50 even use a pressure cooker? After the steam cleared and the water dried they realized they needed pictures for the insurance claim.

Platystemon posted:

Huh. My understanding had always been pressure cooker failure meant superheated water being shot around the kitchen, not an actual explosion.

Trabisnikof posted:

Correct!


Greg Abbott lost his job...

because he wasn't conservative and anti-regulation enough.

Number_6 posted:

I'm not sure what you mean about losing his job; he only stopped being AG because he was elected Governor.

Delta Echo posted:

Apparently this is a meth lab explosion. I haven't checked my sources.

Magikarpal Tunnel posted:

according to my mom: sister's boyfriend was working on a lawnmower in the garage and it "exploded" and burned the garage down and totaled both of their brand new cars

also they just moved into the house two weeks ago

lmao

cstang posted:

That was a natural gas explosion. Killed two people and the owner and her boyfriend were arrested for purposely blowing the house up for insurance money.

quote:

An investigation began involving the Indianapolis Division of Homeland Security, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Indianapolis Fire Department. On November 19, it was announced that the investigation had become a criminal investigation.[8]

Prosecutors allege that on the Friday before the explosion, Mark Leonard and his brother Bob Leonard spoke with a neighbor who was a Citizens Energy employee, asking that person about the differences between propane and natural gas. On the day of the explosion, another neighbor saw a white van pull into the driveway of Shirley's residence between 2 and 3 p.m.. The men were reportedly in the home briefly and hurriedly left. Bob Leonard's son told investigators that several items were in the van that had been taken from the home, including photos and financial documents. Police became suspicious when they uncovered evidence that the couple took similar steps the previous weekend; the cat was boarded and Shirley's daughter was placed with a baby-sitter overnight before going to the casino. Investigators said personal insurance on the home had recently been increased to $300,000.[6]

The most damning piece of evidence was a witness statement from an associate of Mark Leonard who told investigators that the weekend before the explosion, Leonard told him that “the house blew up”. He reportedly said, “the tsunami winds came down the chimney, blew out the fire in the fireplace and the gas kept running and the house blew up.” The witness also told investigators that Leonard talked about buying a Ferrari and that the insurance money from the house would pay for it.[9]

Investigators discovered a number of allegations of insurance fraud and other scams by Mark Leonard prior to the blast, particularly involving stolen or wrecked automobiles.[10] Included on the probable cause affidavit are complaints from several women claiming that Mark Leonard scammed them out of thousands of dollars. Many of the women reported that they met him on dating sites and that he soon began asking them for money. One woman had previously won a $70,000 judgment against Leonard in a civil suit after lending him $53,000, which he never repaid. Another woman reported that she had loaned him about $5,000 for a construction job, which he has yet to pay back.[11]

quote:

Conspiracy to commit murder[edit]
On March 28, 2013, Mark Leonard was charged with conspiring to murder the key witness against him, identified only as MD. Leonard allegedly asked another inmate at Marion County Jail if he could put him in contact with a hit man, according to the probable cause affidavit. The inmate and Leonard drew up a contract agreeing that Leonard would pay the inmate $15,000 when he was released, the affidavit said.[16] On March 13, he allegedly placed a call to a man who he believed to be a hit man. The man he called was an undercover agent. Prosecutors also allege that he offered the hit man a $5,000 bonus if he made the murder look like a suicide. They claim that Leonard wanted the hit man to force the witness to call 911 and recant his statement before killing him.[25]

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A MASSIVE explosion that destroyed a city cafe and killed its owner was deliberately ignited to cash in on a $300,000 insurance policy, the Coroner's Court has ruled.
Deputy State Coroner Anthony Schapel yesterday ended three years of speculation over the fiery demise of both Frank Levato, 49, and JPs Cafe.
In a 41-page document, Mr Schapel reaches the "inescapable conclusion" Mr Levato used petrol and a cigarette lighter to trigger an explosion so "massive" it registered as an earthquake.
"To my mind this conclusion is no mere matter of conjecture," he says.
He dismisses the Levato family's theory someone else had poured the petrol as "most fanciful".
"The scenarios that can be conjured up that would explain his presence and possession of a lighter have to become increasingly absurd for him to be exonerated," he says. JPs Cafe, at 121 Pirie St, exploded in the early hours of May 2, 2006.
The blast destroyed the cafe, damaged businesses and activated Government House's earthquake detector.
Investigators found four petrol containers inside and Mr Levato's body was located with a cigarette lighter in his hand.
Mr Schapel said Mr Levato had no reason to be at the cafe and had quit smoking.

Mr Levato's car – its interior smelling of petrol – was parked in a different spot than normal and its keys were in the ignition.
"One could readily comprehend that the loss of one's car keys in those circumstances would present as an unmitigated disaster," Mr Schapel says.
He says Mr Levato had bought the cafe for $231,000 in June 2005 but wanted to sell it for $267,000 by March 2006.
Mr Levato's bank overdraft was "at maximum" – he owed $12,000 in rent and the cafe's insurance policy was worth $300,000.
"Mr Levato realised he had a liquidity crisis on his hands and that the cause of it was JPs Cafe," Mr Schapel says.

Angela Christine posted:

Do you keep a camera on hand so you can immediately photograph it if it explodes?

Angela Christine posted:

Recently my mom was hit by a car and for a while had people from a local health authority contractor coming in twice a day to help her with her medication, clothes, making her bed, and supposedly cooking her dinner. The trouble was that most of them didn't know how to cook anything. One of them failed to make canned soup.

Mak0rz posted:

GotLag posted:

There's a much more enjoyable example from my city:
http://www.news.com.au/national/cafe-explosion-insurance-job-coroner/story-e6frfkp9-1225766729121



Sadly I can't find a picture of the cafe chair that was blown through the first-floor (second-floor in US) window of the building opposite.

Arson protip: don't wait before lighting the petrol you've poured all over the floor.

Mak0rz posted:

One time I was waiting for a dental appointment when we suddenly had to evacuate the building because someone's car spontaneously caught fire as they pulled up to the building. That car was made of metal.

Delta Echo posted:

Pop goes the weasel when you fill a house like a methane balloon and light it.

I'm on my phone and searched 'meth explosion' to compare with Magikarp's shed picture, and this residential scene came up. I can't follow google image results to their source from mobile google.

I looked because that story of someone's boyfriend working on a lawnmower sounded fishy. Because it's always the boyfriend cooking meth in the shed.

Angela Christine posted:

Didn't realize you were supposed to add a can of water to the can of glop,

Pound_Coin posted:

Are you buying like army surplus soup or is this an american thing?

Pound_Coin posted:

Are you buying like army surplus soup or is this an american thing?

Pound_Coin posted:

Are you buying like army surplus soup or is this an american thing?

Nth Doctor posted:

There are a few concentrated soups on the market. I nearly got caught by it unawares once, but my wife noticed before things went south.

Azhais posted:

You can buy condensed soup, but it's not really that much of a price break around here and doesn't have the volume of variety so I don't know why you'd do it

jetz0r posted:

Condensed cream of X soups are a good base for lots of recipes.