LogFAQs > #952666992

Well first off a pressure cooker works by containing the steam from boiling water, which increases the max temp the water can reach. In general they take 10-15 minutes to reach full pressure and you would be long dead before then.

Even by the time you reach the normal boiling point you would die or soon thereafter, but sadly, the pressure won't increase significantly until that point.

Which means death by pressure cooker would be pretty similar to death by boiling water, but much slower as instead of dying very fast because you were put directly into boiling water (which would still take WAY to long and seem like an eternity while you were dying), you actually do a bugs bunny and slowly get cooked in the water as it heats up.

Now it would heat up faster than in a cauldron like bugs bunny was in, but...he basically left before it became more then a nice hot tub, so the slow increase was a good thing.

Considering the increase in pressure probably escalates the hotter the water gets, I would imagine that most of the 10-15 minutes is getting the water up to the boiling point and converting it into steam.

I would imagine therefore, that you would probably live at least a few minutes before the heat killed you, and the last 2 minutes would be REALLY unpleasant.

If you found yourself in such a situation I would highly recommend breathing out all your air, breathing in water, and submerging yourself and hope you die from drowning before it got too hot/painful. Sadly that isn't very likely even if you do breathe out because you only have a few minutes at most before everything heats up. Still, would probably be your best bet to avoid serious suffering.

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