I just got a bigger pressure cooker and forty pounds of ground round

[struggle4progress]

so I'm gonna make gallons and gallons and gallons of spaghetti sauce

I think it oughta make something like ten or fifteen gallons of sauce

[HopeHoops]

1. Um, storage containers? I trust you've considered this!

[struggle4progress]

2. From now to Saturday, I cook and drain the meat and stash it in the fridge!

Saturday I begin making sauce!

So I don't even have to consider storage issues until Saturday!

[HopeHoops]

3. Yeah, but think ahead!!! I HATE when I have a shitload of leftovers and can't find a container.

On the plus side, Mason jars work REALLY well for storing large quantities of sauces.

[struggle4progress]

20. It's all gonna be eaten Sunday by mebbe 250. I'll have some pots of meat sauce bubblin

gently on my stove from late Saturday until midday Sunday, then I'll just take 10 0r 12 gallons of sauce over to the crowd. I'll have some extra cooked meat and sauce-makins ready if it looks like we might run out

[texanwitch]

4. I have always been afraid of pressure cookers, it goes back to my childhood.

I had friend who's older sister had to cook dinner because their Mother worked outside the home.

This sister was about 16 or so at the time.

We don't know what happened but the pressure cooker exploded.

My friends sister was making chicken stew, the stuff went everywhere.

Yes, we had to help clean up afterwards.

I have had a fear of them ever since, the damn thing was loud when it exploded.

[Riftaxe]

7. And not without reason...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389167/Elderly-woman-leg-horrifically-severed-home-pressure-cooker-exploded.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">Elderly woman has leg horrifically severed after home pressure cooker exploded

[texanwitch]

9. Poor woman.

We were in the living room when the damn thing exploded.

I know the new ones are safer but I still wouldn't have one now.

I am not that brave.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. How big is that pressure cooker?

Sounds like it's the size of a beer vat.

[struggle4progress]

8. 12 qt. I'll do the meat ten lbs at a time. Then the sauce'll cook in another collection of pots

[Lasher]

25. Sounds like me when I make chili

But I don't use a pressure canner, I just use a big pot and cook it slow. Then I freeze most of it for later in those plastic Glad containers.

[trof]

6. It's gonna EXPLODE!

Seriesly.

[struggle4progress]

10. Look for spaghetti sauce splattered all over my user profile!

[texanwitch]

11. Be safe.

I bet everything will taste really good.

[struggle4progress]

12. It's not gonna explode. If the stem with the rocker gets clogged, there's an overpressure

valve that's supposed to pop, and if the overpressure valve doesn't pop, the thing's designed to push the rubber gasket out to relieve pressure

[texanwitch]

13. I know.

The old childhood memory came to mind.

We had just left the kitchen to watch tv, it was a close call.

It took forever the clean the kitchen.

[struggle4progress]

14. I'm glad you were OK. I have a friend

who had never flown, so he finally decided he would try air travel, and the plane's landing gears jammed so the plane landed on a foamed runway with emergency vehicles everywhere, and he's never tried air travel again

[texanwitch]

15. I know it stupid to have a fear of a pressure cooker.

I have looked at newer ones at stores.

This happened in 60's.

[struggle4progress]

16. When I was a kid, seven or eight, first time I got on a horse was a Boy Scout day trip

to somebody's ranch; my horse got pretty far behind everyone else and then decided to try to catch up; I got thrown, with my foot caught in the stirrup, and was dragged some distance with the hindlegs clippity-clopping beside my face until the horse decided to stop, at which point I disentangled my foot and got up. The rest of the party was too far ahead to notice, so I led the horse back down the trail to the corral myself

I was never much on horses after that. I did some ranchwork years later and rode a bit for that but riding's never been high on my list of fun things

First experiences last

[texanwitch]

17. Yes, they do.

You were lucky you didn't get really hurt.

I had a horse take off on me.

Damn thing wouldn't stop, I just held on tight.

The horse even jumped a large ditch.

I remember that.

[struggle4progress]

18. First ten pounds of meat cooked and coolin!

Second ten pounds a-cookin!

[texanwitch]

19. Are you cooking this food for yourself or other people.

That is a lot of meat and sauce.

[struggle4progress]

21. Dinner for 250

[texanwitch]

22. I bet it tastes really great.

Nice of you to cook all this food.

[struggle4progress]

23. Crossin my fingers. About halfway done cookin the ground beef.

My theory is food tastes better if not every bite tastes the same, so I'm takin beef, a handful at a time, work one spice into this handful, a different spice into that handful, then pressure cook it, so the little chunks won't taste all alike

[texanwitch]

24. Seems good to me.

Some food also taste better a day later.

Like soup and stew.

[struggle4progress]

26. Third ten pounds of meat is cookin

[struggle4progress]

27. Last ten pounds of meat cookin

[struggle4progress]

28. Got 40 pounds of meat cooked! Saturday is sauce-makin day

[Mopar151]

29. Double, double, toil and trouble

Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble!

[struggle4progress]

30. Bubbling right now!