> wrote in message
oups.com...
> > And I have a pet bird so will not use Teflon.
>
> Let me just echo this -- though I already have a stalker after me
> because I discussed the possibility that microwaving food covered with
> cling film might be unsafe.

OK, but you DO know there's a simple way to foil the efforts of
these stalkers, don't you? See:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

(Sorry about the pun...)

> >From what I've heard, at some temperature Teflon pans give off fumes
> which KILL BIRDS.

News flash: At SOME temperature, just about anything will give
off fumes that would kill birds. Including, of course, the birds
themselves. The question is whether or not the temperature
required is anything you're going to have to worry about in
everyday life, assuming, of course, that "everyday life" for you
doesn't involve things like testing Space Shuttle main engines or
running Bessemer furnaces. For more info, see:

http://www.teflon.com/Teflon/downloa...teflon_faq.pdf


Bob M.