Sunday 6 March 2016

An expensive caravan companion

Cheeky the budgie is in rude health and I am looking forward to introducing him to caravanning soon, however, before I do so I will have to replace all the pots and pans in the caravan! I have discovered that birds are very susceptible to poisoning from the fumes given off by Teflon non-stick cookware. Fortunately most of my pans at home are stainless steel but everything in the caravan is Teflon non-stick. It's actually very hard to get reasonably priced pots or baking trays which aren't these days, especially baking trays. Not that I bake a lot in the caravan but I do have one non-stick tray which gets used quite a lot, even if it's just for heating a ready-meal in the oven.

Apparently ceramic non-stick is OK for birds so I'll probably get a ceramic frying pan and replace the rest of the pots with stainless steel, which is going to be a costly exercise! However doing nothing is not an option - I don't want to lose another bird!