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Because wood has a very high specific heat, in opposition to that of metal, whose specific heat is multitudes lower, meaning it will take astronomically longer for a user holding a pot of boiling water to get burned (because the wood will not get up to the temperature of the water for a very long time) than if the handles were metal.
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