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If you're looking for something sweet I know what to do. But if you don't like heat I'm not for you.
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I am lighter than the material I am made of. You see parts of me but more of me is hidden underneath.
Used left or right I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up I vie for sweet success used down I cause men great duress.
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Why was the cook arrested?