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Kitchen disaster trumps

PRESSURE cookers: should they be allowed? Feedback mentioned the occasion when “an ill-advised release of steam left rice embedded in the kitchen ceiling” (24 May). Just as we were sending that issue to the printers, Bruce Hansche got in touch from his home in New Mexico, topping our experience quite thoroughly.

“We have cooked many things in our pressure cooker over the years,” he writes, “but the silliest, and most nearly disastrous, came during our artsy-creative years. My wife Chris made handmade paper from…

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