Question

You just ordered a hot pizza and you can't wait to finish the whole thing. But the first bite makes you regret your decision. It burns your mouth. At the same time, you notice that the moist cheese part appears to be even hotter than the crust. Use the definition of the specific heat to explain why cheese burnt more than bread when you ate the pizza.

Answer 1

The moist cheese contains water. And as we know the specific heat of water is very High.

Specific heat of any substance means the total amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of unit mass of that substance by 1°C.

As the specific heat of water is very high it retains lot of heat energy that rest of the pizza (crust). And cause your mouth to burn.