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why do pressure cookers have plastic handles

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Plastic is insulator of heat. Thus while cooking when the cooker gets extremely heated, handles are comparatively cooler to hold . Metals are a good conductor of heat. If the handles are also happened to be made up of metal it also becomes as hot as the body and we cannot hold it.

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