Cooking safely- Stoves

[Kyoto]

Hi everyone,
My specific question is, do I need to worry about what kind of elements are on my stovetop with having my birds? I am educated on teflon and the dangers, and have gotten rid of all my suspected teflon cookware, but I am worried about the stove elements themselves… I know already not to cook when the bird is out of the cage.

Our conure will be kept in our bedroom for the first little while (in order to slowly introduce it to our cats and get the two species un-interested in each other), but I want to eventually move the cage to our living room which is unfortunately next to our kitchen.

What kind of stove elements do you guys have? I don't even know what ours are made out of to be honest! I'm so worried to even try cooking… help please!

 

[Bandespresso]

Find out what your stove brand and model are and google it. If you can find the owner's manual, you can find out what your components are made of. Something to look out for is a self-cleaning feature which means your oven is coated in some sort of non-stick junk.

 

[Kyoto]

Well, I can't seem to find a model number.

However, definitely no self-cleaning element and the inside of the oven looks completely ceramic with the elements and racks as the exception… going to spend some more time trying to find more info though.

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[weco]

Look around the edges of the doors or even maybe the door jamb of one of the oven doors for the brand/model label.....if you don't find one, you may have to pull the stove unit away from the wall and look on the back of the unit for a paper label...I guess it is conceivable that the label tag could have fallen off & you'll have to look on the back of the stove.....

Even with the trouble you're having finding the stove's label, you can quit worrying about any of the stove elements, they will not be made from or be teflon coated...its just surrounding metal surfaces that would have been coated with teflon.....

In the event that your oven is self cleaning keep it below 350 degrees and you should be OK.....

Even if it is not teflon coated, locking the door and using the self-cleaning function, the oven will heat above 500 degrees, higher than the temperature control will indicate and the last time I ever used one, I took the birds out of the house and was running window fans in several rooms, then I left the house...because my eyes were smarting so badly.....

Good luck.....

 

[Kyoto]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

The oven is definitely not self-cleaning, and I cannot find any reason to think that there is anything non-stick about the inside (is it ever a bugger to clean), but I will keep my baby upstairs and away from the kitchen with a window open whenever we cook, just to be on the safe side.

I really do worry so much about everything :S but I just want to make sure my sweetie mcnugget is safe.

 

[Kyoto]

I do have one more question on this topic!

What bird safe burner liners would everyone recommend?

 

[Robin]

Our cage is in the living room also near the kitchen. We run the fan when we do any cooking. I don't know what a burner liner is

 

[Tangie]

So any stove that has a self cleaning option, is nonstick? Oh dear...
I shall be looking for my model number on there.
That's a good safety precaution! I wouldn't have Kiko in the kitchen while I cooked anyway.
Even if the oven didn't have non stick coating

 

[1CuteTiel]

Tried searching Google for non-teflon burner liners and came up with nothing but non-stick burner liners and 2 links below about teflon and other other kitchen dangers including a silicone oven mat responsible for the death of 2 birds
Teflon / PTFE (non-stock-coating) Toxicity
Most deadly hazards for pet birds

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=51477524949&story_fbid=10150267318869950

Looks like there are various chrome burner drip liners but would be a good idea to check with manufacturer to confirm they are PTFE & PFOA free.
You are wise to keep the bird away from the kitchen when cooking. Do you have a stove hood that has a fan that vents outside? I would always use that when cooking or running the oven. I have also used a window fan blowing out where I didn't have the stove hood w/fan & vent outside.
Looks like GE & Whirlpool make a "chrome" burner liners and don't list non-stick as a feature of them soooo.... who knows. Call them and ask.
Hope you find something that will work:41: I don't use burner liners on my gas stove so I have no real experience with them
Heres the link to the chrome liners - do you have Home Depot in Canada?
GE Drip Pans for Electric Ranges (4-Pack)-GE68C - The Home Depot
I searched "burner drip pans" to find the link above.

 

[flyingron]

A self-cleaning oven (i.e., one that has a dedicated CLEAN cycle)isn't likely to have Teflon it it (if it did it wouldn't survive the first clean cycle). They're always a high-temp enamel.

Continous clean ovens might have some teflon, but even then they tend to be a different catalytic composition than teflon to oxidize the fats and stuff that constitute the oven "dirt." Continuous clean ovens aren't particulary easy. The continous clean is never really clean and you can't use anything you'd normally use (oven cleaner, brillo, whatever) or it destroys the catalytic coating.

 

[Tangie]

I will try and look for some myself, and try to be some sort of help.
My oven, is in fact, a self-cleaning oven, but my family has(several times) cooked near or about 400°, and we haven't had any problems as of yet. It is a rather old stove, too.
So even if it is self-cleaning, and you never use the self-cleaning option, it should be safe?