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Worst thing that can happen with a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen?

• jqpabc123 2y ago
  Pressure cookers have rubber seals and a safety relief valve to prevent any sort of explosion. To create any real, significant danger, you would have to *intentionally* disable this valve. Which essentially means your kitchen in no longer "ordinary".
• bell-cot 2y ago
  Even if your "ordinary kitchen"'s pantry stocks both fluorine gas and liquid oxygen, I've some doubts about heating the former to 700 C (1300 F) in an kitchen pressure cooker. Especially the rubber-ish pressure seal. Then there's the lungs of the cook to consider, when fluorine gas "starts escaping through the safety valve". (Yes, Randall's lawyer probably vetoed more-realistic escapades, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing But for the literal worst that could happen, he should have written about the chance of Vacuum Decay in the pressure cooker triggering the end of the universe.)
  • Bluestein 2y ago
    > chance of Vacuum Decay in the pressure cooker triggering the end of the universe Now that is the epitome of bad results, indeed.- Spontaneous autoinduced universal annihilation. Not good, no.- PS. Acronym spells SAUNA :)
    • fuzzfactor 2y ago
      >the epitome of bad results, indeed.- Wait until you see the way the rice comes out when it expands to the max and overcooks a bit too much. "Sticky" just doesn't do justice to such a monolith :) It takes quite a lot of pressure and heat to initiate the fusion of that many particles in a confined space like that, producing a new, heavier element in the process ;)
      • rrnechmech 2y ago
        You might have hit a new fundamental state of matter. Might wanna check!