Washington Post digital editor demonstrates power of pressure cooker

Viewers last night agreed that they really didn’t need to see CNN demonstrate how to put together a “cheap and deadly” pressure cooker bomb just like those used in Boston. Tonight, Washington Post digital foreign editor Anup Kaphle did something even more transgressive: he live-tweeted instructions on how to use a pressure cooker to cook.

Then heat a pressure cooker, and add three teaspoons of oil. #anupslamb pic.twitter.com/8YRnur09oD

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Now, fry the onions in the pressure cooker until they turn brown and add turmeric, rosemary, fenugreek. #anupslamb pic.twitter.com/ssMHtXNwNB

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Then add the chopped lamb into it, and stir it around. #anupslamb https://t.co/WlIyQnrgMi

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

To make this curry outrageously good, add some dark-skinned potatoes into the pressure cooker. #anupslamb https://t.co/ZZ8vBnpZeD

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

“Dark-skinned” potatoes? Can CNN confirm this step?

Now add the cumin+coriander powder that must have come from somewhere in Nepal. #anupslamb https://t.co/GyiXWaNHmp

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

By the way, if you have this secret smuggled spice, you must add it to the lamb and stir it again. #anupslamb pic.twitter.com/5KduH45CKJ

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Then add diced tomatoes and sliced spring onions, stir it some more. Let the thing cook for 5 more mins. #anupslamb pic.twitter.com/r26hvoKjtt

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Then add some water to it and PUT THE PRESSURE COOKER COVER ON. #anupslamb https://t.co/vViZLDY41S

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Here is what the sound of the pressure cooking lamb and potatoes sounds like. #anupslamb https://t.co/ZTUP3xuX1v

— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) April 24, 2013

Hungry readers in Massachusetts can bookmark this post for when Williams-Sonoma decides it’s safe to stock pressure cookers again.