Pan make food hot. But cold food make flimsy lightweight pan less hot too. Food just sort of simmers while sometimes you want scorching.

Cast iron, or heavy bottom stainless steel pan, stays hot while food touches the pan. More energy is stored in hot heavy bottom pan. Food gets scorched and this gives more roasty toasty flavour, which is better in my opinion. If you don’t care for this, don’t.

Also, heavy bottoms spread heat more evenly so everything is cooked at same speed (not the middle of the pan faster like most non-stick pans).

According to the logic of Chinese medicine, yes.

It doesn’t help the longevity of the molerats though.

Hence my phrasing: going back, whatever that may mean, or forward, whatever that may mean.

We will always progress into the future. Going “back” to a more local agricultural society coexisting with nature can also be seen as progress. Progress is not the same as technological advances, we can progress as a society or as humanity. And we probably need a mix of both: coexistance with our environment and technological innovation. A framing of the question being either about progress or regression is utterly useless.

I was talking about choosing less development.

But yeah, I agree on the necessity of getting rid of capitalism for these scenarios to work out

Yes I agree on the likely outcome that the world will be “less developed”. But this always makes me think that we should choose this outcome rather than wait for it. That way we’ll have more control and we may limit some damage.

If we have to go “back”, whatever that means, I’d rather do it voluntarily as the urge to always go “forward”, whatever that means, seems to be an underlying cause of our problems.