I found an old style pressure cooker. I had heard all the stories but a friend used one all the time and he wasn't nearly as smart as me. Time for a pot of beans. Found everything including the pea so I was set.
Cooked the beans, then raised the pea until the pot quit spewing steam and took the pea off. The pot promptly squirted a solid stream of water hitting the ceiling! Discretion being the better part of valor I let it spew a couple minutes. A lot of people have gotten burned horribly with those old fashioned pots as I am sure you know.
After several minutes this thing was showing no signs of losing pressure and the entire kitchen floor was getting coated. OK, I will open the back door then direct this stream of steam and water away from me as I dash to the back yard. My plan did involve gloves and safety glasses. I got it out the back door with just a single stream of water spraying all the way through the kitchen and living room. I wondered how I was going to explain the carpet smelling like beans but that was a problem for another day!
I set the pot in the middle of the back yard and dashed for the back door! The pot sat there for about fifteen minutes making like Old Faithful. Where was all that steam and water coming from? What is more, I seem to have achieved a sustainable reaction. Ten minutes later it is still spewing nicely!
To this day I don't know what the hell happened. Maybe the wrong pea had something to do with it, if it was the wrong one?
A bit too late I remembered that people used to take those old pots outside and hose them down with a garden hose awhile before trying to mess with them. Myself, I am done with them!
Hu
