Oh good ! But now I wonder if that is why FireFyter had problems. Maybe his vent was blocked?
Your pressure gage SHOULD stay at zero until you put the weight on. There is no way it can build pressure with the steam venting out, unless of course you have 10,000 degrees of fire under it!
Ok, so I am guessing on the PSI, but it can build up even with the vent wide open. That's a lot of mass inside the pot, and a pretty small hole!
My point is, the 10lb weight would not stop the steam when I put it on the first time I used it. It blew the steam right past the weight. (Think like a constant jiggle that never stopped the flow) Now if I had cut the weight way down, it would of come down and worked normal. Remember, I think it ran for maybe 30 minutes before it built up enough to whistle. That was my first mistake, I counted 10 minutes AFTER it started to whistle. By that time, I would put money on the fact that even with a wide open vent stack, it began to build pressure in the pot. There is not a big enough hole to vent that much steam fast enough.
In a nut shell, I screw up big time! The point was that I DID have problems, I lost half the water in the two jars of beans that were in there~!
