Comment by timr

> Overheat them, which means the stuff gets into the air. Many many pet birds have died of this only because they're more susceptible

And again, this has nothing to do with PFAS or PFOA. The principle cause is a complete breakdown of teflon into fluorinated small-molecule gases, such as hydrogen fluoride and tetrafluoroethylene. You're literally burning the coating off. It has as much relationship to PFOA as wood smoke has to wood.