>They have their uses. I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil). It requires prop

>They have their uses. I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil). It requires proper seasoning. Once you got that, egg away! >Also, claiming that they "seem to be poisonous" without any qualifiers is a little misleading. To my knowledge they're only poisonous during manufacturing (ie. the precursor chemicals) and when they get too hot. Agreed - they're not poisonous to use, but the manufacturing chemicals used to produce them are, and those chemicals are often dumped into the environment - they're also known as, "forever chemicals", which reek some havoc on well: us. https://www.ewg.org/what-are-pfas-chemicals https://www.ewg.org/what-are-pfas-chemicals >Why are they only superficially convenient? They seem pretty convenient to me. The plastic waste they produce still have the inconvenient problem of what to do with them. Like many conveniences, the problem is just offloaded to someone else. https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/k-cups-keurig-inventor-regrets/ https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/k-cups-keurig-inventor... Some feel microplastics in our blood stream is a worthy compromise to easy-to-make coffee. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla... I dunno much about TVs (I've never owned one), but sounds like subscription over ownership which, grumbles over Adobe