I have a beautiful set of china dishes that I never use, a very old set, tests positive for lead... Those lead sticks are great. They can be found at most hardware stores & are not that expensive.

That said, I only use glass for the microwave & a lot of oven cooking. For pots & pans I only use stainless steel. I have never used non stick pans. I even have an all stainless steel electric skillet.

I will have to confess that after being GF for 2 1/2 years that I was still using one of my old cast iron skillets. My justification was that I never cooked with that much wheat since I was mostly wheat free for over 10 years. When I realized that everything that I was cooking in it made me sick, in a weird way that I could never really put my finger on... SOooo the skillet is now in the give away stack & I am on the lookout to purchase another one.
As a Southern girl I have to have at least one cast iron skillet.

Have any of you bought a cast iron skillet recently? Is is okay to get the preseasoned ones?