Burner and cooking bench

The invention discloses a burner and a cooking bench. The burner comprises a furnace head, a burner cap assembly, a temperature sensor, a lifting assembly and a protection shell; the burner cap assembly is arranged on the furnace head, the furnace head and the burner cap assembly are provided with channels which penetrate through the furnace head and the burner cap assembly; the temperature sensoris suitable for making contact with the bottom of a pot and is located in the channels; and the lifting assembly is connected with the temperature sensor so as to drive the temperature sensor to move, at least part of the lifting assembly is located in the protection shell, and the protection shell is connected with the furnace head. According to the burner, by arranging the protection shell, theprotection shell can effectively block liquid overflowing from cookware on the burner and high temperature radiation of the burner, thus the service life of the lifting assembly can be prolonged, themaneuvering performance of