Your wrong argue it all day long its used for cookwear because of many other properties its heat dissipation not one of them and only in the lowest grade cookwear.
Ask anyone who cooks about it and they will tell you stainless will scorch food before anything else moonshiners are particularly aware of this property and its more pronounced over a flame vs a heating element.
Want to test it? Get a 12ga sheet of stainless and carbon and stick a rosebud to each one for 20 seconds and see what happens.
Try it yourself. and use a laser thermometer, stainless will be just as hot, it just takes a higher temp. to turn red, hence its harder to weld. They use it in cookware because its... stainless, and stronger than aluminium, however having cooked more then a few meals myself, and being raised in a moonshine area, it reacts about the same as cast iron, but not as well as copper, however copper works better with lower heat, being that copper actually does conduct better, so you get a more even heat, hence while some, not all stainless cook ware has a copper coating on it and why you can by a heat despencer for welding made out of... copper. And the reason stainless scorches is because people tend to buy the cheapest cookware they can where as you get the thinist metal they can make it out of, hence leading to more heat transfer faster, leading to.... scorching.
Stainless is made from Iron, a good but not great conductor, Chromium, an excellent conductor, Nickel, an even better conductor. and a few other things, like carbon for the really hard stuff, the thing that makes stainless so nice is its stable under heat, because of the nickel and chromium, which means it can handle higher temperatures, which means it takes more heat to weld, which makes most welders assume its not a good conductor of heat.
Except for the chrome and nickel, which are in the less then 2% range, Stainless has about the same chemical make up as regular mild steel, and being that chrome and nickel are both better conductors then iron...
So yeah I will argue the point because I actually understand metallurgy, its what I do for a living. Most welders barely understand the differences from one type of stainless to the other.
Sorry for the derail...