I hear they've suspended the development of the Insignia Cornballer indefinitely as a result of this
Mother of gooooood
How could they mess that up? It's so easily testable that they should have caught it during initial product design prior to mass production.
I worked at Best Buy a long time ago. Insignia products are in house brands that are REALLY cheap and crappy quality. Dynex is also another one. We used to joke that if they made a whole PC out of Dynex parts it would probably catch fire. Even the dynex CDs would randomly crack
Do miss working at Futureshop where you would get wholesale on dynex. You could get a dozen compressed air canisters for a couple dollars. Don't think I ever got anything else of theirs.
So the customers fill them up too high, not sure how one would test for that? It is expected to happen when overfilled. There if no way to avoid it at that point.
Well, it would help a bit if the full markings were correct.
Yes, but at the same time those testing this thing for safety know not to overfill it, as specified in the instructions. I assume the volume people then used comes from some recipe that specifies XYZ volume, which then resulted in the issue with the wrong markings. Really one of those odd issues that are not too easy to predict.
It's called a safety factor, you should be able to overload it by at LEAST 10% before it fails.
How much was it over full?
You know why a safety factor is required?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Best Buy is recalling nearly one million pressure cookers due to a defect that can cause hot foods to spew out and burn people using them.
The recalled pressure cookers, sold under the brand Insignia, have incorrect volume markings on their inner pots — which can cause consumers to overfill them.
"This can cause ... hot food and liquids to be ejected when the pressure cooker is vented using the quick release method or opened while its contents are pressurized, posing a burn hazard to consumers," the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said in a recall notice.
The recalled pressure cookers are both under the Insignia brand and have the following model numbers: NS-MC60SS9-C and NS-MC80SS9-C.
At least 930,000 of the devices were sold in the United States at Best Buy and on Amazon between 2017 and June of this year.
Anyone with an affected model is instructed to stop using the device immediately and contact Best Buy for a replacement.
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