Birds should not be kept in the kitchen

Twostage

Actually the full sentence is "We recommend that birds should not be kept in the kitchen".
The above quote is probably the weirdest thing I've ever read in a set of instructions. If the instructions had been on a bird cage you would maybe think "fair enough" but this was from a Tefal frying pan. See below :-


IMG-20120601-00020 by twostage, on Flickr

They must have been sued by an angry bird owner.

msmancunia

Rather bizarrely, I do have experience of this! I used to have two cockatiels, and when I moved to London my living room/kitchen was open plan. I had one tefal non-stick pan (for pancakes) and the first time I used it, my birds died :-( They literally just fell off their perch. So, it does happen.

thistle_

If it can kill a couple of cockatiels what's it going to do to my lungs? :roll:

jds_1981

I've read about this before. Pretty nasty stuff eh?

SimonAH

Yup, not good. Do not overheat Teflon.

First.Aspect

I agree. Its a particularly bad idea to keep emus in the kitchen. They take up a lot of space and are no help whatsoever.

redjeepǃ

Back when I worked for a big USA based multinational, they sent around an advisory notice to all employees during the Global bird Flu pandemic that looked like it'd been thrown together one afternoon.

It offered the advice 'not to share your house with old birds', which we thought was funny. I don't think they use the same slang in the USA.

sketchley

A very quick google found this....

http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/teflon4.htm

greg66_tri_v2.0

msmancunia wrote:

Rather bizarrely, I do have experience of this! I used to have two cockatiels, and when I moved to London my living room/kitchen was open plan. I had one tefal non-stick pan (for pancakes) and the first time I used it, my birds died :-( They literally just fell off their perch. So, it does happen.

Are you sure they weren't just resting?

First.Aspect

Greg66 wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Rather bizarrely, I do have experience of this! I used to have two cockatiels, and when I moved to London my living room/kitchen was open plan. I had one tefal non-stick pan (for pancakes) and the first time I used it, my birds died :-( They literally just fell off their perch. So, it does happen.

Are you sure they weren't just resting?

team47b

Use ceramic frying pans, last longer and don't degrade and gradually add themselves to your food.

msmancunia

Greg66 wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Rather bizarrely, I do have experience of this! I used to have two cockatiels, and when I moved to London my living room/kitchen was open plan. I had one tefal non-stick pan (for pancakes) and the first time I used it, my birds died :-( They literally just fell off their perch. So, it does happen.

Are you sure they weren't just resting?

Bit late now, I had them cremated! But as John Cleese said, they had definitely "ceased to exist"...

merkin

I had a particularly frightening experience once while out on a ride past an ostrich farm near me when some ostriches managed to get out through an open gate and chased me down the road. Now these are big, angry, scary, fast birds. I sprinted flat out down the road and just managed to get home blowing like a steam train and in through the front door when they came running in behind me cornering me in the kitchen. I quickly reached for my teflon frying pan with my left hand and threw it onto the hob whist lighting it with my right. It was a close call. :oops:

Jay dubbleU

Sorry - I thought this was another barefoot and pregnant thread

Twostage

merkin wrote:

I had a particularly frightening experience once while out on a ride past an ostrich farm near me when some ostriches managed to get out through an open gate and chased me down the road. Now these are big, angry, scary, fast birds. I sprinted flat out down the road and just managed to get home blowing like a steam train and in through the front door when they came running in behind me cornering me in the kitchen. I quickly reached for my teflon frying pan with my left hand and threw it onto the hob whist lighting it with my right. It was a close call. :oops:

Absolutely PMSL