Pressure Cooking: How Does It Get Hotter Than 15 psi?

[aclark609]

Okay so if 1 atm is the pressure in our natural surroundings (I know it depends on altitude, but humor me, ummkay?), and 1 atm = 15 psi, then why does a pressure cooker get water to boil at 121 degrees Celsius. I mean the pressures are the same. How does a pressure cooker allow it to get hotter?

 

[aclark609]

Nevermind. I just found out it's 1 atm above normal atmospheric pressure. Place palm to face emoticon here. Sorry.

 

[Baluncore]

A critical thinker continuously poses their own good questions, then answers them.

A sloppy thinker is unable to post a clear question and so must wait for another to work out what the question should have been, when the answer becomes immediately obvious.

aclark609; Congratulations on your critical thinking, you will go far.

"The best answer is one that destroys the question."

 

[aclark609]

Thank You! I did not expect to get acclaimed for this lol.