Axman said:

Sillysighbean said:

Your life is worth more than a couple hundred bucks. Throw that shit away

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Also let me be clear, I'm not advocating for using a warped PC, it is dangerous, throw it out, I'm just saying mine still works

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Harpo67 said:

TY. Then why am I see people using bolts to keep the round piece higher up off the bottom of the cooker?

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If you’re doing agar in media bottles or grain bags, you don’t want them sitting in the water. The media bottles will float and tilt, because they are not filled all the way. The grain bags, you don’t want sitting in the water. If you raise up the baseplate you won’t fit 10 quart jars in the pc. If you are only PC’ing 7 or 8 jars then you can raise the jars above the water line. However, as others have said, it is ok for a small portion of the jars to be in the water, just not on the bottom of the pot. They will break and or burn if they are on the bottom with no space between the bottom of the pot and the jar bottoms.

Edit: I use the left one for media bottles, the right one for grain jars.

Harpo67 said:

TY. Then why am I see people using bolts to keep the round piece higher up off the bottom of the cooker?

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Also he's using the 23qt, I'm fairly certain you can only fit 7 in a 16qt.

The point of raising the trivet, is to keep stuff out of the water like if you are pasteurising substrate, using bags, etc.

AZ Starman2112 said:

Ya! I’m with ya. Everything I’m reading says don’t do it. I just hate tossing something like this and spending another $130. I literally use this thing two or three times a month or more. If I’m making pickles & sauce I’ll use it constantly all weekend long, 3-4x a day! Ugh!

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I mean you don't have to throw it out throw it out, it'll still be a solid stock pot if you want to make an obscene amount of chili/stew

AZ Starman2112 said:

Morning all! So am I fucked here or what?

Yesterday I PC’d 10 grain jars. Did everything my normal way. Literally use this Presto 23 for everything. Mush cult & canning pickles & sauces. Yesterday for some reason the bottom bowed out (pic below). It’s 16 months old. When I opened it, it had only 2/3’rds of a cup of water left in it. Never saw this before, usually I have quite a bit of water left in it. Filled it with the normal 3 quarts of water and then I ran it two hours after venting 10 mins and then reaching 15 psi. Do I toss this pot, or just use it as is, or try and tap it back flat with a block of wood and a rubber mallet? I’ve put sauté pans and skillets back into shape with a block of wood and a rubber mallet, but they aren’t under pressure when in use. So am I fucked here or what?

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RasenderRon said:

Hey guys my first mushroom is ready to be harvested he just tore the veil over night but i all of them are pretty white and a little smaller than expected. Could these be albino B+ or did the vendor mixed up the spores. I used a spore syringe to grain bag. And should i harvest all of them now or just get the biggest one out? And what do you think about the fuzziness on the feed all good or to much from what i saw it should be normal right?
Thanks in advance

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Mr Piggy said:

AZ Starman2112 said:

Morning all! So am I fucked here or what?

Yesterday I PC’d 10 grain jars. Did everything my normal way. Literally use this Presto 23 for everything. Mush cult & canning pickles & sauces. Yesterday for some reason the bottom bowed out (pic below). It’s 16 months old. When I opened it, it had only 2/3’rds of a cup of water left in it. Never saw this before, usually I have quite a bit of water left in it. Filled it with the normal 3 quarts of water and then I ran it two hours after venting 10 mins and then reaching 15 psi. Do I toss this pot, or just use it as is, or try and tap it back flat with a block of wood and a rubber mallet? I’ve put sauté pans and skillets back into shape with a block of wood and a rubber mallet, but they aren’t under pressure when in use. So am I fucked here or what?

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Beyond fucked.  Throw it out, and when you do drill a couple of holes in it so no one else ever tries to use it.  That is EXTREMELY compromised now and is a bomb waiting to happen.  Given how warped it is you got super lucky.

You cannot fix a pressure holding vessel like a PC when it warps that bad, especially since we're dealing with aluminum here.  Any warping at all means it's done and should be thrown out, even a slight bow in the bottom.  This is a few miles beyond that.

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Mr Piggy said:

If you do maybe cut off the sealing latches or something else to prevent it from being used as a PC again.  You never know who will get a hold of it in the future and not know that it's not safe, especially if you tap it back into place

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AZ Starman2112 said:

Actually I’d toss the lid and I have a small engraver that I could write on it “do not pressurize”. It’s only a few of us up there, so with no lid, ain’t nobody gonna use it for pressurizing. I’m one of the only one who cooks anything worthwhile there soooooo….

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ElGringoGrande said:

Yo does anyone have an explanation or link to one about why we are supposed to put foil over lids of things in the pressure cooker?

I’m specifically looking at agar in a 500 ml media bottle. I poured agar a week ago and was very careful with pouring in my SAB, followed Bod’s videos to a t, closed all windows and turned off all fans/ac and hour before pouring, showered ~30 mins before.

All the plates are contammed, they look like little drops evenly dispersed across the surface of the agar, clear but I can see thin trails leading out of the drops so probably bacteria (sorry no pics rn, I’ll post later).

The only thing I can think is that I didn’t cover the lid of the bottle during sterilization, just left the lid slightly unscrewed, so I’m trying to track down what went wrong. Could leaving the lid uncovered lead to contams? Or was I just not careful enough with pouring?

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ElGringoGrande said:

Yo does anyone have an explanation or link to one about why we are supposed to put foil over lids of things in the pressure cooker?

I’m specifically looking at agar in a 500 ml media bottle. I poured agar a week ago and was very careful with pouring in my SAB, followed Bod’s videos to a t, closed all windows and turned off all fans/ac and hour before pouring, showered ~30 mins before.

All the plates are contammed, they look like little drops evenly dispersed across the surface of the agar, clear but I can see thin trails leading out of the drops so probably bacteria (sorry no pics rn, I’ll post later).

The only thing I can think is that I didn’t cover the lid of the bottle during sterilization, just left the lid slightly unscrewed, so I’m trying to track down what went wrong. Could leaving the lid uncovered lead to contams? Or was I just not careful enough with pouring?

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Axman said:

AZ Starman2112 said:

Actually I’d toss the lid and I have a small engraver that I could write on it “do not pressurize”. It’s only a few of us up there, so with no lid, ain’t nobody gonna use it for pressurizing. I’m one of the only one who cooks anything worthwhile there soooooo….

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Save the lid components for your new presto then, like the gauge, handles, and rubber seal.

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This is why I like you man!

ElGringoGrande said:

Yo does anyone have an explanation or link to one about why we are supposed to put foil over lids of things in the pressure cooker?

I’m specifically looking at agar in a 500 ml media bottle. I poured agar a week ago and was very careful with pouring in my SAB, followed Bod’s videos to a t, closed all windows and turned off all fans/ac and hour before pouring, showered ~30 mins before.

All the plates are contammed, they look like little drops evenly dispersed across the surface of the agar, clear but I can see thin trails leading out of the drops so probably bacteria (sorry no pics rn, I’ll post later).

The only thing I can think is that I didn’t cover the lid of the bottle during sterilization, just left the lid slightly unscrewed, so I’m trying to track down what went wrong. Could leaving the lid uncovered lead to contams? Or was I just not careful enough with pouring?

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i really sucked so bad at pouring in a sab i found no pour works real well in a sab i still use no pour