This skillet is so amazing, I was the biggest skeptic ever and fully convinced that I would return it. Imagine my surprise when out of the box it became my absolute favorite cooking utensil. The surface is amazingly non-stick, I follow directions quite well and it's so slick now that fried eggs slide around as if they were on some yucky Teflon pan. Only they're on cast iron,, who knew that a cast iron pan could be so much fun to cook on? Why didn't I order one of these sooner!?