Texas Woman Files Instant Pot Lawsuit Against Amazon

August 15, 2024 — Amazon has been sued by a woman from Texas who was burned when she opened the lid on her Instant Pot Duo Pressure Cooker.

The lawsuit was filed by Maria L., a woman from San Antonio who bought an Instant Pot Duo online from Amazon.com in August 2022.

Less than a month after she bought the pressure cooker, she was using it normally to cook food when she “suffered serious and substantial burns” when she opened the lid and hot food blew out.

The pressure cooker was still pressurized when she opened the lid, “allowing its scalding hot contents to be forcefully ejected” onto her body, resulting in serious burn injuries, according to her lawsuit.

Her lawsuit blames the manufacturer and sellers for misleading consumers about the “safety mechanisms,” which failed to actually lock the lid and prevent her from being burned by scalding-hot food.

The defendants include Amazon.com, the online retailer who sold her Instant Pot Duo, as well as the kitchen appliance manufacturer Midea America Corporation.

Instant Brands, Inc., the company that originally designed and distributed the Instant Pot, is engaged in bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

The pressure cooker lawsuit was filed on August 6, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (San Antonio Division) — Case 5:24-cv-00864.

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