Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Perhaps most suitable to my stovetop -- which has two burners on the right, two on the left, and a largish "grill" (restaurant terminology) or griddle (suitable to frying pancakes &cet) in the center, though I've never used this for anything but a worksurface. The heavy cast-iron frying-pan can be slid around (and stored on the stove-top, neatly enough for _my_ purposes) , food lifted from it with a spatula or large serving/mixing-spoon, and cleaned by adding water & removing most with a turkey-baster, then drying with cloth or paper towels. (In any event, cast-iron cookware should never (well... hardly ever) be exposed to soapy water -- when necessary (perhaps every five years or so) get someone with functional wrists to set it on an outdoor wood-fire, heat until red-hot, cool slowly, scrape & sandpaper away the carbonized grease deposits, then re-season.) Mostly it's just a matter of looking, thinking "how can result X be obtained by not departing from a plane surface", and acting accordingly.