Like, I just bought one of those Granite Stone fry pans, and while cooking some pork chops I got to wondering… Metal conducts heat and electricity, so how do the metal handles on some fry pans and cook pots stay cool while some (mainly solid, single-piece metal pans) get hot to where you need a pot holder to hold or move them?
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The base of the pan is aluminium (which reddit, apparently, spells aluminum?) and the handle is stainless steel.
Metals conduct heat, true, but not at the same rate; aluminium conducts heat 20x better than stainless steel, so the food gets 20x more heat than the handle.
Copper is even better than (OK …) aloominum, but it can get into the food.
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