Twitter on The Perils of Pressure Cooker Shopping

Kishwer Vikaas and Lakshmi Gandhi

Life, News, Opinion

For years, the humble pressure cooker has been a staple in South Asian kitchens. Our mothers used it to cook entire meals in under an hour — turning gristly, inexpensive cuts of meat or ordinary vegetables into succulent curries. But after the Boston bombers turned the pressure cooker into bombs loaded with ball bearings and nails, the pressure cooker became a center of controversy.

Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield took advantage of the occasion to post a picture of an “Assault Pressure Cooker” on his personal blog, mocking Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban. Retailer Williams-Sonoma removed pressure cookers from the shelves of Massachusetts stores — but has put them back in place.  And Washington Post Digital Foreign Editor Anup Kaphle live-tweeted instructions on how to use a pressure cooker to make (what we assume is) a delicious lamb curry with “dark-skinned potatoes.” Below are 10 tweets that tell you everything about pressure cookers you never wanted to know. And just for the heck of it, Queen and David Bowie’s song, “Under Pressure.”

https://twitter.com/jzoni/status/328623665782595584

https://twitter.com/RJ10x/status/327560125885841408

https://twitter.com/BylineBrandon/status/326772510991466497

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