Cast iron is always a safe choice, for home defense as well as cooking.

Cast iron is fussy. I don't do fussy cookware. And I prefer swords for home defense, it's hard to stab with a cast iron skillet--though the skillet-and-carving knife combination is classic.

According to some sources, I should just slit my wrists now, since I'm apparently killing myself by using it.

Those sources are not reliable. Granted, I am a mouthpiece of Big Cookware and we make a lot of nonstick everything, but the stuff that used to be harmful in nonstick coatings is not used anymore by anyone manufacturing anything that is sold in the US. It does not matter what brand name the nonstick coating is. The only reason to worry about scratches in the nonstick coating is because stuff you are cooking will be more likely to stick there.

Let me know if you want me to hook you up with a stainless steel pan, our outlet sale is starting soon. A small skillet ought to be fit into a flat rate USPS box, I think/

Cast iron really isn't as fussy as we have been led to believe. It is heavy, though.

Ha!

I'm southern & I grew up a short drive from a Lodge factory outlet, so cast iron is my primary cookware. I have probably a dozen pieces of difference sizes and uses. It definitely is a devotion to caring for it properly, but nothing compares to cast iron for cooking meat and poultry, and eggs, too. In the last few years I've acquired some pretty lovely pieces -- at least one that dates from the early twentieth century, and another that's probably from the forties. They have just as much utility now as they did then. I pity the next familial generation I am going to earnestly foist these off to, for they will have to care for them as a nod to my legacy.

Let me know if you want me to hook you up with a stainless steel pan, our outlet sale is starting soon. A small skillet ought to be fit into a flat rate USPS box, I think/

Tempting, but my skillet is doing fine for now. Though if the prices are good . . .

My wife has a couple of enameled cast iron pans that take some of the fussiness out of cooking with it. I have no idea what the pros and cons are, though.

For one pan, I can always get you a good price. Employee discount. I don't remember how shipping works with that, I think it's a flat rate but I haven't done it in a while. Actually, they usually run an online deal when the outlet sale is happening so you might could order off potsandpands.com with a coupon and get a pretty good deal. And then there's the sample sale in the summer with ridiculous low prices, but there's no telling what will be on offer.

This is dangerous intel, -t. Very dangerous.

Looks like Evan McMullin has a shot at winning Utah. You know, if he wins Utah and neither Hillary or Trump gets to 270, he'll probably be President.