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Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right?
    #23692799 - 09/30/16 12:55 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I cant figure out what I am doing wrong... 3 quarts of water, loaded jars in, waited for water to boil, put lid on, waited for steam to vent for 5 minutes, put weight on. Ok so now this valve thing is supposed to pop up once pressure builds, but its just been spewing steam and water droplets out. My weight wont even start rocking, because there appears to be no pressure building up. What gives? This is going to be really frustrating if I just wasted 7 jars of bird seed...


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: MortySmith]
    #23692815 - 09/30/16 01:11 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Press down on that gasket spewing water and steam with a butter knife or something and hold it down hard for like two minutes. Then release it really quick and it should pop up and seal. Mine does the same thing. If it pops up and there's still steam coming out twist it a little till it seals


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Tuhdoww]
    #23692823 - 09/30/16 01:15 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Eventually you gotta buy a new gasket. These days I always have spares lying around. They're easy to find online. Gotta check out your model either on the handle or under the PC


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Mad Season]
    #23692826 - 09/30/16 01:17 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Sucks mine was bunk right outta the package.


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Tuhdoww]
    #23692837 - 09/30/16 01:28 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Just replace all the rubber parts and put it together. Put water and iteam inside turn on full heat with the weights on until it keeps spinning then turn down the heat to middle


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: tump]
    #23692841 - 09/30/16 01:32 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Just replace all the rubber parts and put it together. Put water and iteam inside turn on full heat with the weights on until it keeps spinning then turn down the heat to middle




Works for government, can't spell or make proper sentences:cookiemonster:


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: MortySmith]
    #23692867 - 09/30/16 02:12 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

For the seal silicon grease is a wonder, perfect seal everytime.


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Chk]
    #23692939 - 09/30/16 04:09 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

If you ever tire of dealing with seals you can always pick up an all american sterilizer.  Picked mine up for 150 on ebay.


Edited by RyeJar (10/04/16 12:18 AM)


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: RyeJar]
    #23692959 - 09/30/16 04:26 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Fill up your water nearly half way up to whatever your pcing, and heat it up with the lid on and let steam then put on weight then start replacing parts see whats leaking 
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If you ever tire of dealing with seals you can always pick up an all american autoclave.  Picked mine up for 350 on ebay.




He prolly has a decent one you can find new small ones for like 200$


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: spore-ty]
    #23692962 - 09/30/16 04:31 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Apply vasaline on the gasket too.  It'll make it work better and last longer

What are you trying to heat your pc up with?  Maybe it's just not getting hot enough.  Or you didn't wait long enough before you posted this.  If you have a big pc it takes about 30-minutes once you put the weight on


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Kenetic]
    #23692964 - 09/30/16 04:33 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Apply vasaline on the gasket too.  It'll make it work better and last longer

What are you trying to heat your pc up with?  Maybe it's just not getting hot enough.




Does anyone elses pc book say to use vegetable oil as lube?


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: spore-ty]
    #23692966 - 09/30/16 04:34 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

That's what rr shows on his videos


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: spore-ty]
    #23692975 - 09/30/16 04:48 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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ked mine up for 350 on ebay.




He prolly has a decent one you can find new small ones for like 200$



Yeah mine is huge.  Its really nice to have a large autoclave.


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: RyeJar]
    #23693009 - 09/30/16 05:21 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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ked mine up for 350 on ebay.




He prolly has a decent one you can find new small ones for like 200$



Yeah mine is huge.  Its really nice to have a large autoclave.



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What kind of burner do you use?


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: spore-ty]
    #23693274 - 09/30/16 07:40 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Just a large kitchen stove burner.  It takes a while to build pressure because of the large surface area of the aluminum to the cool air but it gets there.  I feel for this type of work an autoclave is a really good investment.


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: Kenetic]
    #23693352 - 09/30/16 08:23 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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What are you trying to heat your pc up with?  Maybe it's just not getting hot enough.  Or you didn't wait long enough before you posted this.  If you have a big pc it takes about 30-minutes once you put the weight on




Its a portable electric cook top, ~700 watts. It took FOREVER to even get steam venting. I am talking like, hours. It honestly was BARELY boiling when I put the lid on, but by the time steam was venting I could hear it boiling hard inside. I left the weight on for, idk, it was at least 30 minutes though.

You know, the indicator light on the heating element knob kept turning on and off... I assumed to keep steady heat. I am wondering if this little cook top, even at max heat, is just not enough, or maybe BARELY enough, for the PC.

I actually planned on this! Kinda lol. When I saw the wattage of the element I bought at the hardware store, I was skeptical of how well it worked, heat wise. So I ordered a more powerful 1100w one with my agar stuff and its about to be delivered.

NOW my question is... since I ended up just turning the burner off and going to bed, are the jars that were getting a half assed steam bath last night still good to use today? Can I just put new water in and restart PCing? What I mean is, did what I do last night ruin the jars? They are still sitting untouched in the closed PC if that matters.


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: MortySmith]
    #23693382 - 09/30/16 08:36 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

If you're gonna go the hot plate route, you should definitely get one that's at least 1100 watts IMO. And yes, you're good to re-sterilize them once your 1100 watt unit arrives :thumbup:


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: NumeroEno]
    #23693443 - 09/30/16 08:55 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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If you're gonna go the hot plate route, you should definitely get one that's at least 1100 watts IMO. And yes, you're good to re-sterilize them once your 1100 watt unit arrives :thumbup:



As long as its not wasted everything is O.K. :thumbup:
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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: MortySmith]
    #23693476 - 09/30/16 09:07 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Screw that waiting must get 1500 w and do it somewhere warm i did that with 1500w in 35 degree basement it never boiled. Did it in 75 degrees only took q hour to psi


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Re: Why doesn't my pressure cooker work right? [Re: MortySmith]
    #23693488 - 09/30/16 09:11 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Nice, post back results


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