A woman's face swelled up like balloon after she suffered second and third degree burns when her pressure cooker exploded - while cooking soup. <br /><br />Becky Fargo, 43, was cooking potato soup for her daughter Jadyn Young, 13, when the pressure cooker pressurized unexpectedly and exploded. <br /><br />Becky, of South Webster, Ohio, USA, had set the machine to cook without pressure, something she had done several times before.<br /><br />But when she tried to get the soup out, the cooker exploded leaving 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her face, chest and neck.<br /><br />Becky, a restaurant manager, said: "I had used it about five-to-ten times in a two-year period and I had mostly used it for chili and other slow-cooker foods.<br /><br />"There was no issue at all but something was different this time."<br /><br />Becky was blown back by the blast and the boiling hot soup coated her chest, face and neck, sticking to her skin. <br /><br />After running to wash the soup off, she woke her daughter up, who called for help. <br /><br />She said: "I ripped my shirt off and splashed water on myself because the soup was stuck to me and it was burning. <br /><br />"The explosion knocked me back four feet. It was huge, the lid broke."<br /><br />When the ambulance arrived an air-lift was called as the nearest hospital with a burn unit was two hours away. <br /><br />She was treated for a couple of hours and sent home with an ointment for her wounds.<br /><br />Becky said: "The burns got progressively worse over the next 36 hours. My face swelled up like a balloon. <br /><br />"Days four to nine were excruciating. They were open, oozing, crusty and they just burned. My chest was on fire."<br /><br />The burns persisted for months, first swelling and then peeling and she was forced to take three weeks off from work to treat her injuries.
