[or-roots] Pressure cookers and canning

[Eugene Barnes]

I was in a home in Hayward, CA about 1946, when
a pressure cooker went off.   A heavy set woman
on one side of the ironing board was on the opposite side following the big bang.  The lid and
pot roast were nicely imbedded in the ceiling.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Chapman 
  To: Oregon List 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:41 PM
  Subject: [or-roots] Pressure cookers and canning


  I know all about letting the lid off too soon, I tried that once, I pulled
  the weight and let it blow for a while til it seemed released, and then
  popped the lid; I didn't blow food quite all over the kitchen or hit the
  roof with the lid, but it was a near thing. Somebody in my family did the
  same as Cecil's gram once but I don't remember who.

  I do remember a pressure cooking story of my Dad's and wish I remembered the
  details like who and where, all I can remember is these guys were camping
  out real high in elevation and couldn't get their beans cooked, as Cecil
  said the lid and wieght mechanism raised the water temp speeding up the
  cooking; well unconfined water at a high elevation will boil at
  significantly less than 212 degrees fahrenhiet hence the half cooked beans.

  The were in some kind of construction or mining camp and folks were whining
  about the half cooked beans so much one of the guys said he'd get some of
  them real well done; he took a metal container (don't remember if it was a
  tin can or piece of pipe) and filled it with beans and water and sealed it
  an threw it in the fire.

  There may have been money riding on the beans getting coooked or some such,
  don't remember, all I know is Dad said everybody was real quick to concede
  the point that he "could" get the beans cooked thoroughly and would he just
  pull that container out of the campfire. I believe this story was in the
  mountains somewhere in Arizona, it may even have been the crew my dad worked
  with building a road up Graham mountain.

  As to canning, my mom used to can on a wood stove, so your Mom was living in
  the lap of luxury canning on something so easily regulated as kerosene stove
  Cecil.

  Les Chapman khanjehgil at presys.com
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