Question

why do most cooking pots have a wooden handle or why it is necessary to put on protective gloves/towel to pick up a hot pot. In your response, discuss the type of heat transfer that is occuring.

Answer 1

Answer:

Most of the Cooking pots use wooden handles as wood is a bad conductor of heat. We should wear protective gloves to pick up a hot pan so that our hand doesn't burn. The heat transfer occuring here is conduction.