Hello and welcome to The Rest is Science. I'm Michael Stevens.

And I'm Anna Frye. Michael, what is your favorite room in the house and why is the answer to the kitchen?

Oh my gosh, we're jumping right in. My answer has to be The Kitchen. Is this a setup for your episode?

It's the correct answer.

Okay, I want to tell the audience, this is an episode where Hannah has come to talk to me about something that is, dare I almost say, annoyingly close to her heart. Before we record episodes, she's always talking about refrigerators. And I'm like, Hannah, one of these days. One of these days, my time will come. Get it out of your system. My time will come. No, I'm really excited to hear this. And of course, my favorite room in the house is the kitchen. If that's going to help move things forward. I'm not, see, this is the thing. I've managed to, I've managed to expand from not just my love of fridges, but I'm going to do other other household items in the kitchen too, Michael. This is, this is going to be a little justification as to why the kitchen is the room that

contains all of the most interesting, high-performance scientific equipment in your house.

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