Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Fowl Threats

Here's a little tidbit of information I picked up this morning at the periodontist's, while undergoing oral surgery. My oral surgeon, by the way, is fond of expounding on bizarre trivia, either because he's just that kind of guy or it's a subtle way of getting the sedation to kick in faster.

Anyway, did you know that if you are a bird owner, you should not cook with Teflon cookware? Apparently, if you overheat Teflon, it releases a gas that is lethal to birds which, thanks to their heightened metabolism, they absorb more quickly than more lethargically metabolic organisms.

To that end, I propose the Tippi Hedren line of Teflon-coated cookware.

You could also use the cookware to take care of the creature it had done in.

The subsequent dissertation on the molecular structure of Teflon ultimately put me under....

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