Pressure Canner Causes Disaster

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On 24^th August 2015, a Reddit user updated a thread with a title that ‘Why I am not allowed to cook dinner anymore’ including a photograph. This specific photograph indicated a pressure cooker accident. This image was also shared by a number of users, voted and comments for the submitter. We have found that this Reddit user is not the original source regarding this image. One day before publishing news by Reddit user, another user NineteenSeventyFour also published same photograph in its post with a title ‘Whoopsie’. But we could not found the story behind this image that they published. This photograph also shared by a number of users on Facebook. Other users named UNILAD and Adinas Acres also published same photograph on their Reddit time-line. We have found a number of different titles attached with same photograph attached with their post.

It is also possible that these photographs indicating about a story of pressure cooking gone skewed. But we could not find actual information regarding the posted photograph. No one mentioned about the location of city or country, and didn’t identify the time and date capturing this picture. We have found in this picture that a number of kitchen equipments and food were scattered throughout the scene in the picture. It is considered that this incident happened after a pressure cooker malfunctioned badly. It is possible that the person who actually posted this picture or Reddit user captured this picture themselves. Point to be noted that most of these online postings are considered as speculative or fake news. These kinds of stories have been regenerated, shared or reposted to attract users and to bring more traffic on their sites.