Mayor Eric Adams can’t take the heat, so he’s tossing the press out of his kitchen.

Or at least muzzling it: Last week he imposed quotas on “off-topic” questions for most of his appearances, with just a once-a-week ask-me-anything session.

He’s peeved, you see, at being pestered on things like his handling of the migrant crisis, fentanyl at a Bronx day-care and last week’s storm.

Not that he’s admitting it: The goal, he pretends, is “making sure that we really respond to the off-topic questions that we get.”

Such transparent insincerity might fly coming from the Brooklyn borough president, but not the city’s mayor.

Not to mention that he threatened this very move over a year ago, amid a ridiculous rant suggesting either that the press is racist or that it should treat him differently than past mayors (except David Dinkins?) just because he’s black: “I’m a black man that’s the mayor but my story is being interpreted by people that don’t look like me,” Adams complained.

Back then, he was peeved over questions about the Legislature’s leaders refusal to fix their disastrous criminal-justice “reforms”; last week it was queries on his response to the historic downpour and flooding.

He plainly wants media to simply broadcast his “message” of the day — even (especially?) when that message has nothing to do with what the public wants to know.

Sorry, sir: That’s not how it works in a democracy.

We don’t pretend to be perfect surrogates for the public; we’ll even grant that some reporters can obsess about issues that almost no one else cares about.

But we’re not stenographers; our duty is to our readers (and listeners and viewers).

Adams should leave the task of being mayor to others if the pressures of answering for his handling of migrants, flooding and other crises become too difficult.

Answering to the Big Apple press corps — the people’s surrogate in our democracy — is literally in the job description.

If you think that’s at odds with your “Get Stuff Done” mission, tough — City Hall’s Room 9 wants to learn about the stuff your administration does or doesn’t get done.

Harry Truman famously coined the line, “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.” If that doesn’t work for you, how about: “The buck stops here”?