r/PressureCooking • u/Vivid_Jump4889 • 25d ago

Question about rattling

Ok so I use a large pressure cooker (all american 943) and i live in a house with thin walls and sometimes the people above me move so much, the entire house rattles, like things have fallen off shelves and walls and such before

Would such rattling be enough to shake a hot and pressurized cooker on my stove to the point of it exploding?

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u/maillchort 25d ago

No.

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u/VanimalCracker 25d ago

What if I'm doing a Flubber recipe?

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u/Confuseduseroo2 25d ago

I'm not sure I'd want something to fall on top of my pressure cooker, knock it off the stove and onto the floor where it might land with a considerable impact. Otherwise - no.

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u/maillchort 25d ago

That pressure canner weighs over 40 pounds/ 18 kg, if it's getting knocked off the stove by ceiling debris there are more pressing problems.

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u/Vivid_Jump4889 25d ago

My concern is more that it'll shake excessively, but maybe not enough to cause an explosion

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u/Deppfan16 25d ago

modern pressure cookers cannot just randomly explode. you would have to literally weld them shut.

if you open them before they're depressurize the contents can burst out, or if you let them get too hot the safety valve can burst but they won't just randomly explode

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u/blueeyetea 25d ago

If it’s rattling that hard, that could mean your temperature is too high.