Parents will take all the help they can get, and many rely on clever tools and appliances to make parenthood easier, but one Australian mom is urging parents to throw out this kitchen ‘life-saver’ after it almost cost her her life.
When faced with the age-old dilemma of what to make for dinner, Cassie Hodges and her partner Mark decided to make soup, but since their three kids were already getting hungry, they decided to use the pressure cooker since there wasn’t any time to use the slow cooker.
Mark put all the ingredients in the pressure cooker, and 25 minutes later, Cassie walked in with their 12-week-old son and saw dinner was ready. After putting the baby down and telling their two older daughters to sit at the table, she went back into the kitchen to help serve dinner.
“I walked back in to the kitchen and mark let the pressure release valve off to release the pressure, the steam came out the top as normal. Then I heard a click, suddenly I knew the lid unlocked and the next minute I was hit with something. The lid had unlocked and because it hadn’t finished releasing the pressure the lid flew off and the entire contents hit me like as if someone chucked a bucket of water at me, the noise of it was a loud sizzle,” Cassie remembers.
“I immediately screamed. My partner was holding his stomach and he pulled his arm back and his skin was all peeled off, I removed my singlet and ran to the shower,” said Cassie, who was left with burns to 12 percent of her body.
Cassie had to have all the dead, burned skin peeled off and was left unable to look after her children while she healed, but is sharing her story to warn other parents of how dangerous pressure cookers can be. “I will be ok , but I want to share my story, these pressure cookers are not safe. We did nothing wrong the machine unlocked prematurely, it should stay locked and unable to be opened until the pressure is all gone.”
“Please share this far and wide and throw your cookers out, or better yet, demand a refund. They are not worth it. 2 minutes earlier I was holding my son, my poor son could have been hurt. We are lucky! I want to make sure this never happens to anyone ever again,” Cassie said.
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[Fearuted image: Facebook/Cassie Hodges]
Mom Warns Others After Pressure Cooker Explodes At Home is an article from: LifeDaily