Recently, the Associated Press, published a pressure cooker story that contained a pressure cooker dulce de leche recipe with dangerous instructions.

Thousands of newspapers and websites subscribe to the AP service and the story began to appear in newspapers and websites in April 2013. A reader alerted us to the striking resemblance to the dulce de leche recipe hip pressure cooking published last year. In fact, the recipe is very similar with one exception – the pressure cooker opening method.

“The opening method recommended in the article is dangerous,” said Laura Pazzaglia, the founder of the hip pressure cooking website.

“When you pressure cook a can – or any sealed vessel – its contents also become pressurized. Unlike a pressure cooker, which has valves to release pressure and safety mechanisms to lock the lid when the contents are under pressure, there are no such safety features on a can. Should a cook follow the instructions given in the recipe published by AP and accidentally open the can while the contents are still hot they could spray out forcefully and scald the cook.

We strongly discourage cooks from opening the pressure cooker quickly and handling a pressurized can as described in the AP recipe.”

This morning hip pressure cooking contacted all the websites and newspapers where the recipe appeared online to alert them of the danger.

Pazzaglia assures that “You can absolutely make dulce de leche safely in the pressure cooker. The key is to let both the cooker and its contents cool down slowly, undisturbed and overnight.”

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