new stove, need help!

Hi everyone. I am getting a brand new glass top kenmore stove tomorrow and I've heard of the fumes they emit being toxic to my 2 U2's. I have researched and even called my local avian vet and havent gotten any good answers.. I need to know the best way to make this safe for my fids. I've been told to take the fids out of the house and run the self clean feature. How many times do I need to do it? Also it's supposed to be around 52 degrees in my area but with rain. Is that warm enough to take them outside and put them in an out building while I do this with the stove? Also what about the stove top, do I need to burn them for awhile too? I appreciate any help, I feel like I'm losing my mind over this. It's definitely making getting new appliances a downer.

stcymcintyre said:

Hi everyone. I am getting a brand new glass top kenmore stove tomorrow and I've heard of the fumes they emit being toxic to my 2 U2's. I have researched and even called my local avian vet and havent gotten any good answers.. I need to know the best way to make this safe for my fids. I've been told to take the fids out of the house and run the self clean feature. How many times do I need to do it? Also it's supposed to be around 52 degrees in my area but with rain. Is that warm enough to take them outside and put them in an out building while I do this with the stove? Also what about the stove top, do I need to burn them for awhile too? I appreciate any help, I feel like I'm losing my mind over this. It's definitely making getting new appliances a downer.

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I don't know what your vet told you, but whenever you need to check about product safety questions, you need to ask the manufacturer and you need to do it in writing, so that if anything were to happen in the future.....

The advice you've received about initially using (burning in) the self-clean function is correct and the advice that you need to remove your birds from the residence is also true.....the self-clean function, when operated, will create oven heating higher than you can control with the stove's thermostat control, to actually burn off any food residue that may have been splashed on the oven's interior surfaces and once you lock your oven door and engage the self-clean function, you normally must follow through with the program...unable to override it.....

If you've never used the self-clean function on an oven, you don't necessarily want to be in the kitchen either, as you may find your eyes smarting and enjoy unpleasant odors that may bother your respiratory system, as many of the parts/surfaces interior have been coated (as part of manufacturing) with oils and/or release agents and these substances are often offensive to we humans and household pets...read your owner's manual.....

Once the process is over, often in hours of time, you'll want to thoroughly air out your house (kitchen especially) before bringing your birds and/or other animals back in.....

As with the oven, you'll also want to turn on & turn up the temperature of each of the stove's eyes...same reason as the oven.....52 degrees F is fine for doing this burn-in (burn off).....

Hope this assuaged your concerns ! ! !

Any stove with a non-stick interior containing Pfoa or ptfe (the most common culprit is teflon coatings) is NOT safe for birds and can't really be made safe for birds. Once the coating is heated above 400 degrees F (which a self cleaning feature would almost certainly do) it can/will release odorless fumes that can kill parrots. I would imagine the off gassing of the initial self clean cycle you run would be the most deadly due to the concentration of the chemicals. Though, as long as it has a coating, it will continue releasing fumes whenever it is heated above 400 degrees. And parrots do make getting new appliances difficult, but they can't help they die from human made chemicals nor should one reasonably assume something that can kill a bird (or other small pet) is necessarily all that safe for us either. Now, as for if the particular model of stove you bought having costings that are toxic to parrots is something, as Weco said, you'll need to contact the manufacturer about (and keep a copy of their response, in writing). MOST stoves (especially the traditional style) have nonstick interiors. This is something you really need to contact the company about and you may have to make a decision to go with a different brand.