My mum set the kitchen on fire using one of these- we first saw the flames through the serving hatch into the dining room. Luckily the local Fire Chief and his son, a fireman lived next door to us.

Making the opening smaller results in a quicker draw on the coals which gives a quicker hot fire.

I used to use this all the time in my parents' shop when I wasn't even a teenager yet. I feel the need to defend it because it would take a lot of stupid to injure yourself with it!

What is it?

"police! there's a stalker-" "ma'am, it's the fbi"

My grandma had a manual mangle (wringer). Before the advent of washing machines with a decent spin cycle, my mum had a spinner, which was basically a small washing machine drum mounted vertically and it did a better spin to get more water out.

Ahh, memories!!

I nicked the red bulbs out of our and used then in my bedroom light fitting. The whole street thought my parents had started a brothel.

I used one of these in 2014, 2015 in Berlin, because I couldn't afford a decent place to be ... so I lived in the basement of a guy who was too old (>90) to take out the trashy and broken furniture.

they gave out fantastic heat but the gas bottles when full were so heavy and it gradually went up in price to a ridiculous level

Still exist. Still used.

could i just add that we all carried knives and no one got stabbed

Ouzo gave me a terrible hangover.

these are still used and are for sale new

The new ones are a lot safer and great time savers if you know how to use them!

I remember ours exploding, luckily my mum was at the sink and not using it at the time. It coated the ceiling and the lid missed her. She said it was like a volcano spewing out boiling hot lava.

Homer: how do I use the pressure cooker? Marge: doooooon't!!

My grandmother made the most amazing food with one of these. I miss her cooking all the time.

Noooooooo

Those are used to kill more people than little black rifles are every day world wide. Most popular thing to build an IED in.

They are save here even the one I inheritated from my mother, which is 40 years old. and looks much much better than the ones on the picture. Mine has a safety ventil.

Still use mine to cook artichokes in under 10 minutes!

my mom still has and uses hers

The neighbor across the road had one. Heard a huge bang one afternoon. Ran over and the lid had gone straight through the ceiling. Beans every where. No injuries.

My mom has that exact one and still uses it for chicken and dumplings

My mom used one a lot. Fortunately it was well made. i

That's why they all came with little blow-out plugs that blew out if the pressure got too high. My mother had one and we never blew the kitchen to bits once.

Using mine for 30 years now. Works fine and is perfectly safe if you follow instructions and do not forget about it )

Knowing what you are doing. You can not ignore the dial.

I was terrified by ours. Wouldn't even go near the kitchen most of the time. Good food though.

My mother-in-law had a hole in her kitchen ceiling from her pressure cooker!

Yeah, I still use mine for cooking artichokes, otherwi6it takes forever!

Thank goodness they improved the design on these

The new ones are safe and you can release the pressure slowly or quickly depending on what you're cooking. I wouldn't use an old one for fear of my life. My mom still has hers from the 70s. I don't think she uses it anymore.

I heard of someone who had just redone their kitchen in pristine white then decided to cook beetroot in the pressure cooker. They ended up with a pink kitchen. At least these days the electric ones are much safer with pressure cutoffs.

An insta pot is a pressure cooker

its a must have. and i doubt a new one is dangerous.

Check the ceiling for the lid

People are so overly cautious. Unless you put your fingers in there (and you'd have to be stupid to do that), what would go wrong?!

The Striker- not very cool like a Chopper striker-60...c384b4.jpg

how can it get caught in your ribcage? would it run amok around your organs? wtf :D

This was awesome!! Never used it as a weapon though!

I had these. Whacked myself in the nose so hard I thought my nose had gone to the other side of my head. I obviously did not learn co-ordination nor skill.

the 'shower' in most British households back in the 80's

nicely mixed into a tune by the Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E

That wasn't really frowned upon until the nineties. All my friends' parents, mine, and basically every adult we knew smoked in his house, his car, everywhere. Children's rooms ... not that often, but sometimes, too.

Still done. In some countries, people do this to make extra money.

My dad had one of these for the greenhouse.

OMG I miss these shoes. I want a pair right now!! I remember having a pair in every color they offered (tan, white, navy and black). I loved these!!!

In Viet Nam we have "shop gun" too. It's a brand name of condom. xD