Steve, if you love pressure cookers, learn to work with them, hee, hee. With the newer techonology, the likelihood of one really blowing up is remote. Both of mine have two pressure release valves, if one gets bunged up, the other one will blow out, it is a hole basically in the side of the lid that the rubber seal can blow out of if the other one is plugged. I use mine all the time for tenderizing meat.
Wow, I made the best ribs, pressure cooked for about 1-1/2 hours, broiled on the second rack (with bbq sauce on it to crisp up) for 1/2 hour and then presto, yum, yum.
I use my big pressure cooker for processing vegies and jarred meat dishes, sure does save on the space in the freezer, hee, hee.
Oh carumba, I seem to always take off on someone else's thread, going off topic and ramblin', my apologies to Brian who initially started this thread (well, no, :-D :-D :evil: I don't really mean to apologize, oops!!! did I just say that? hee, hee). Have a wonderfullly beautiful day, lovin' this life we live. Cindi