Killer fumes

[Featheredsamurai]

I hate Teflon! We have 2 Teflon pans that my siblings insist on using, my brother's girlfriend will whine about how the other pans don't work when I complain. Whenever the Teflon pans are being used I have to take Rosie upstairs to my room(where her cage is kept), I close the door, open my window, and turn the ceiling fan on medium. I cannot wait until I move out and buy a safe set of cook ware.

 

[kc_y0]

Oh now I feel sick!! I got rid of all my teflon cookware, but stupid me still has a george forman grill AHHH!!! Lucky I have rarely used it, but eep!

 

[Remy]

That poor couple! :-(

I don't see why people are so dependent on teflon. I've used it, but after using it for a while it gets all scratched up and flakey. Also, they are coming out with silicone and ceramic based non-stick pans that are non-toxic. I got one for under $20 at Vons (not orGreenic, which works too, but not as good, and the quality sucks). I forget the name. I also have a Green Pan, which is great. So far, only the orGreenic one has gotten scratched, since it appears to be made with some sort of soft metal, but the other two are awesome.

 

[JerseyWendy]

I am curious about the oven thing. I have a self cleaning oven and have never used the cleaning setting with the birds in the house. However does this mean that I have to be careful of cooking in the oven above a certain temperature?

Brian, our oven is going on 4, and we've never used the self cleaning feature. The highest we've had the temp on was at 450 degrees to make fries.

The only thing that goes off each and every time when the fries are done is the smoke alarm.

My birds have never had any side effects from it.

 

[DerSchniffles]

That poor couple! :-(

I don't see why people are so dependent on teflon. I've used it, but after using it for a while it gets all scratched up and flakey. Also, they are coming out with silicone and ceramic based non-stick pans that are non-toxic. I got one for under $20 at Vons (not orGreenic, which works too, but not as good, and the quality sucks). I forget the name. I also have a Green Pan, which is great. So far, only the orGreenic one has gotten scratched, since it appears to be made with some sort of soft metal, but the other two are awesome.

I dont think its neccesisarily that people are dependent on teflon, its just that everything is already on it that is cheap. You either buy a teflon pan at walmart for 15 bucks or you buy the non teflon pan for 30. When you need cooking ware and dont have much to spend, teflon makes sense.

I still use a few pans that are teflon, I just make sure the fan is on and never ever put the heat above 6 (it goes to 10). I also made sure my wife knows to not preheat the pans anymore and she is fine with it. If we cook anything big in the oven that takes a long time then we just put Scarlet in the bedroom on a perch and play with her in there while its cooking just to be on the safe side.
We are slowly replacing everything teflon but the wife loooooves to cook and we have so much kitchen stuff that it would cost hundreds of dollars to replace everything. Its a work in progress

 

[Birdlover11]

We have one Teflon pan but we only use it to fry eggs and omletes. I'm planning on throwing it out and buying my mom a better, non Teflon Eco pan.The problem is my bird cage is near the kitchen so if it over heats it's dangerouse. Every year my mom somehow sets her frying pan on fire ( spends more time focused on the tv ) I want to throw it out before it happens again. Can a on fire Teflon frying pan set out fumes ?

 

[MollyGreenCheeks]

We have one Teflon pan but we only use it to fry eggs and omletes. I'm planning on throwing it out and buying my mom a better, non Teflon Eco pan.The problem is my bird cage is near the kitchen so if it over heats it's dangerouse. Every year my mom somehow sets her frying pan on fire ( spends more time focused on the tv ) I want to throw it out before it happens again. Can a on fire Teflon frying pan set out fumes ?

Without question a Teflon pan that has caught fire will most certainly put out toxic fumes!