re sausage:
I use a cast iron skillet, but I use it for most things, I keep it sitting on the stove when not using haha.
my family is British so sausage is pretty much one of the staples.
The trick with cast iron is you heat it up, then you turn the temp down before you start cooking. I put a bit of oil in the pan then add the sausage, then add some water, about 1/4 cup maybe? enough that it covers the bottom of the pan and comes about halfway up the sausage. Boil/ steam them until they are pretty much cooked through turning them a few times. then dump the water, from the pan, add a bit more oil (canola oil in my house) so they don't stick and then fry them for a few minutes until they brown up, turning often. The frying is only really to brown the casing, as the meat is cooked through from the boil/ steam. Don't cut them before cooking or anything, this will let all the moisture escape and the will look weird. oh and you don't need a lid the water will evaporate as you cook them, that's fine you dump the water at the end anyway.
You can also do them in the oven, but this takes longer as you have to heat the oven etc. Lay them on a broil pan and bake at 400 until golden brown, turn a few times during cooking maybe 15 minutes? You can also cook bacon like this too if you need to do a lot of bacon at once it's easier to do oven then fry pan cooking.
