Can you imagine lifting your crockpot lid to check your food and it explodes?!? Apparently, it is happening.
One woman reported she had to be treated in the hospital when 'a piece of glass flew into her eye' -another reported being 'punctured while cleaning up'. Crock Pot, Hamilton Beach, Calphalon, Sensio, and CE North America were all the slow cooker manufacturers identified by consumers on the the Consumer Product Safety Commissions website - SaferProducts.gov.
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A sampling of comments on other sites:
"I had the same problem but the slow cooker was cleaned and sitting out waiting for me to put it away. My wife and I heard a pop and found the lid shattered"
" My lid also exploded. I had just removed the ceramic insert, placed it on my table on a hot pad, removed my ham, replaced the lid and all of a sudden glass shards from the the entire edge/rim became air borne. The ham was ruined. I am not sure which specific product is mine, it held a 7 lbs ham just perfectly"
"I bought my crock pot less than a year ago. I have used it several times with no problem until the lid exploded in my face. I placed allt my ingredents into my crock pot, took off the lid 15 minutes later to give it a stir and the lid exploded in my face and all over my kitchen. I called Rival and I was told that this has happened before but the problem was taken care of. I asked several times to speak to someone that could explain to me why this has happened and how exactly it "WAS CORRECTED" I never spoke to anyone but they are sending me a lovely new crock pot. No thanks! I'm just a little scared at this point."
My personal thought is:
I won't be running my crock pot or its lid through the dish washer, even if it does say diswasher safe .... just in case.
One woman reported she had to be treated in the hospital when 'a piece of glass flew into her eye' -another reported being 'punctured while cleaning up'. Crock Pot, Hamilton Beach, Calphalon, Sensio, and CE North America were all the slow cooker manufacturers identified by consumers on the the Consumer Product Safety Commissions website - SaferProducts.gov.
Watch this news video
A sampling of comments on other sites:
"I had the same problem but the slow cooker was cleaned and sitting out waiting for me to put it away. My wife and I heard a pop and found the lid shattered"
" My lid also exploded. I had just removed the ceramic insert, placed it on my table on a hot pad, removed my ham, replaced the lid and all of a sudden glass shards from the the entire edge/rim became air borne. The ham was ruined. I am not sure which specific product is mine, it held a 7 lbs ham just perfectly"
"I bought my crock pot less than a year ago. I have used it several times with no problem until the lid exploded in my face. I placed allt my ingredents into my crock pot, took off the lid 15 minutes later to give it a stir and the lid exploded in my face and all over my kitchen. I called Rival and I was told that this has happened before but the problem was taken care of. I asked several times to speak to someone that could explain to me why this has happened and how exactly it "WAS CORRECTED" I never spoke to anyone but they are sending me a lovely new crock pot. No thanks! I'm just a little scared at this point."
My personal thought is:
I won't be running my crock pot or its lid through the dish washer, even if it does say diswasher safe .... just in case.
Same thing happened at my moms house! Cooking ribs in the crock pot. No one was in the kitchen .....Thank God! We heard a horrific noise. Shards of glass everywhere. Some glass was projected all the way across the room. There went $20.00 worth of ribs. Three hours of clean up and no dinner pluscglass splinters in my hand. I contacted Rival. Someone is supposed to contact me. I do not want a new crock pot.My request is for them to recall all glass lids so no one is killed. Isnt tempered glass supposed to breakin cracles intead of sharp jagged pieces like flying knives?Crock pot companies could design a new lid with a vent hole to prevent pressure building up inside the pot. Having a science background, I think I can explain why this happened. Moisture from the cooking process causes water from the steam created to rise and collect on the rim of the pot and this creates a seal. The seal creates a vacuum. The unit therefore becomes a pressure cooker. The glass lid cannot withstand the heat and pressure forces and there she blows! The simple solution is a small vent hole. My electric skillet has one. Someone is going to be seriously injured unless these crock pot designers wake up and smell the glass with bbq rib residue all over the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened at my moms house! Cooking ribs in the crock pot. No one was in the kitchen .....Thank God! We heard a horrific noise. Shards of glass everywhere. Some glass was projected all the way across the room. There went $20.00 worth of ribs. Three hours of clean up and no dinner pluscglass splinters in my hand. I contacted Rival. Someone is supposed to contact me. I do not want a new crock pot.My request is for them to recall all glass lids so no one is killed. Isnt tempered glass supposed to breakin cracles intead of sharp jagged pieces like flying knives?Crock pot companies could design a new lid with a vent hole to prevent pressure building up inside the pot. Having a science background, I think I can explain why this happened. Moisture from the cooking process causes water from the steam created to rise and collect on the rim of the pot and this creates a seal. The seal creates a vacuum. The unit therefore becomes a pressure cooker. The glass lid cannot withstand the heat and pressure forces and there she blows! The simple solution is a small vent hole. My electric skillet has one. Someone is going to be seriously injured unless these crock pot designers wake up and smell the glass with bbq rib residue all over the kitchen.
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