Not every meal is prepared by throwing stuff into a pot and praying. Some need to be grilled up, fried, tended to. The Skillet would permit a more immersive manner of preparing certain dishes (perhaps faster, even), and would just look right in a cooking scene.

With its addition, some of the current pot foods would move out of it to be made in the Skillet or assembled via crafting (Fried Rice, Steak and Potatoes etc.), which prevents them from being held to 64 inside a pot. This could, however, come with a max stack increase, or generally superior stats/effects. We'll see.

• When in hand, it is a melee weapon with increased knockback
• Holding right-click will pick up any smeltable food in the player's inventory, and cook it if the player is either
  • On fire
  • Next to a hot block, following Cooking Pot rules
• When placed as a block, allows players to combine six ingredients into food, but won't hold them in like a Cooking Pot.
• Meals made of these ingredients could be plated up on a Crafting Table instead, for simplicity

This whole thing and its concept was moved to another taskboard.