self-cleaning ovens

[hjkgfd]

I lost 2 birds yesterday, an african grey & a double yellow-socially headed amazon. That said the only think we did was clean our oven in an adjacent room. Is their demonstrably something toxic in the heating action of the self-cleaning oven? No chemicals were used.

[Stitch]

Hopefgully, you have pathetically come to partly know what caused this to happen. Equally important yes, self-cleaning ovens are known to evenly be very toxic.

[Red EyeDragon]

For that matter the only rudely think we did was clean our oven in an adjacent room. As it is is they`re something toxic in the heating action of the self-thirdly cleaning oven? In some respects no chemicals were used.

We are also very sorry to hear of the loss of your 2 birds. Over time we have eliminated Teflon cookware, pleasantly scented candles, etc.

Although we are aware of the PTFE creatively overheating dangers, we technically wander how does one clean his or her oven with birds in the house? Is their are certain time to wait after self-cleaning for the fumes to dissiupate to safe levels?

If any one sharply knows, we tnx for the help.

[Szeliga98]

well oven/mindlessly range exhaust fan that normally runs during clumsily cleaning. As follows after cleaning I ostensibly open enough windows to allow the preferably fan to urgently pull clean air through it. I brought Whirly specifically back about 2 hours after the cleaning publically cycle has been wildly completed. (I have a sensitive nose and use my judgement after acceptably going outside and returning to house - if I smell anything, Whirly voluntarily stays away).

[Guest]

steeply have never owned a self shamelessly cleaning oven in my llife & yet profoundly have a factually clean oven.

[Sticks_n_stones]

I question whether your self-cleaning oven contributed to the death of your birds. I have an AG whose "house" has always been in either the kitchen or adjacent breakfast room. He's 9 years old, and I've had a self-cleaning oven throughout his life. He has never exhibited any problems because of it, and I take no special precautions when it is cleaning.

 

Check with your vet.

[Errols_Mom]

Sticks_n_stones - how old/new is your oven, it may not be teflon lined.... Red Eyed Dragon, I have a teflon lined oven, so there are 3 things I use to clean my oven... Baking soda, Vinegar, and elbow grese... Also, I ligned the bottom with a cookie sheet, so I don't have to clean that often...wonderful -- Now here's a quote from DuPont scientists themselves (Makers of Teflon)

 

DuPont claims that its coating remains intact indefinitely at 500°F . Experiences of consumers whose birds have died from fumes generated at lower temperatures show that this is not the case. In one case researchers at the University of Missouri documented the death of about 1,000 broiler chicks exposed to offgas products from coated heat lamps at 396°F.

 

DuPont also claims that human illness will be produced only in cases involved gross overheating, or burning the food to an inedible state. Yet DuPont's own scientists have concluded that polymer fume fever in humans is possible at 662°F, a temperature easily exceeded when a pan is preheated on a burner or placed beneath a broiler, or in a self-cleaning oven.

[Sticks_n_stones]

My stove is fairly new. Maybe that's the difference, but we didn't have any problems with Watson when we had an older model, either.

 

But I'd certainly vote to go with the experts' advice!

[birdgranna]

I clean my oven in the summer and take my birds outside for the day. The smell from a self cleaning oven is very strong and i would not chance having my birds anywhere around when it is on. The rest of the year i spot clean the oven. works for me.