Which conducts heat more quickly from a frying pan to your hand, a wood handle or a metal one?

Skillet with a wood handle being heated over open flame. Skillet with a metal handle being heated over open flame.

The following model compares heat conduction through two materials of different thermal conductivities.


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Color: Graph Grid Isotherm Heat flux

Temperatures of heat sources
0°C     
     100°C

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