You could also go the opposite direction like me. I just started watching The Man in the High Castle. It seemed topical after the inauguration.

If they’ll let me then I’ll just not leave the house. Now that I think about it Canadian prison actually seems like a great option for a shut-in american emigrant.

I still remember when my sister was sick as a kid and my dad asked her if she was going to puke because she looked like she was. She got half way through saying “no” when she abruptly projectile vomited all over him.

You’re still putting too much work into this. Just heat up the metal shaft where the knob was with a torch and press any old hunk of thermo plastic onto it. Now you have janky done even more quick and cheap.

This is why I always buy cheap vice grips whenever I see them in a box of tools at an estate sale or something.

“Oops, I broke a handle on (thing).”

Clamps vice grips on the bit left over

“Fixed it.”

Right now both of the seats in my truck just have a vice grips for the reclining lever.

A World on Fire - Bo Burnham

You definitely don’t need to oil it after every use. The main reason for applying oil is to keep it from rusting while it sits. If you just use it at least once a week then that rust isn’t a concern. Even if it did rust you can just scrub the rust off before you use it.

There is all sorts of special care you can do to cast iron if you really get into it. But if you really don’t care then you can just use it and wash it exactly like any other pan without issue. The whole soap thing is a myth now a days because modern soaps don’t contain lye anymore. Soap is entirely unnecessary in cast iron but it won’t hurt it. Seasoning is adequately acheived just by actually cooking with it. You really don’t need any special process to season it unless you deliberately stripped off all the old seasoning. You can cook acidic foods in it without issue. I do tomato sauce in mine all the time.

Coated pans require way more care. At least I can use proper metal utensils in my cast iron.

It’s pretty hard to ruin good cast iron. A good cast iron pan could spend a year at the bottom of a lake and all it would need is a good scrub and reseason to be good to go again.

About the only thing I’ve seen that makes them completely irrecoverable is when people use them to melt lead. Also you can crack the cheap ones in half with thermal shock.