Pie funnels are used in baking pies and fading the pie from boiling over in the oven by allowing the steam created when the fruit filling or other contents are cooking to escape from inside the pie. How to use: Line the pie dish with pastry, place the Bird in the centre, put in the filling around the "pie bird" then put a pastry top on but allowing the pie bird to stick out of a hole in the pastry. Pinch crust around the birds shoulder, allowing the head to stick through the pastry. The bird will release steam through his mouth "vent" during baking and help to fading juices from boiling over in the oven.