One day during cooking class, the teacher, Mrs. Jones, was
extolling her secrets for preparing perfect sauces.
When she ordered us to the stoves to prepare our
assignments, she said, "Don't forget to use wooden spoons."
As I stirred my sauce, I contemplated the physics behind the
mystery of the wooden spoon and decided it must have something to do with heat
conduction. I approached Mrs. Jones to test my theory. "Why wooden
spoons?", I asked.
"Because," she replied, "if I have to sit
here listening to all your metal spoons banging against metal pots, I'd go
nuts."