What oil would you use on a butcher block to reoil???
What oil would you use on a butcher block to reoil???
food grade
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There's a good article on finishes for food items in the latest AAW magazine. He suggests leaving cutting surfaces as is - you'll cut through any finish, anyway.
That said, I've tried mineral oil, but it doesn't dry. If you're not going to use it (just there for show), any oil would do. ("Salad bowl" finish is just thinned varnish. It's name is just marketing.)
Bob
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Here's what I use on my end grain cutting boards! Works great, soaks in, easy to recoat, smells like honey!
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...at=1,190,42950
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...cutting+boards
Last edited by Mack Cameron; 02-28-2008 at 1:37 PM.
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I use mineral oil from the drug store. It is sold as a laxative.
It goes on better if warmed just a bit under a hair dryer or in the window under the sun. You do have to reapply periodically but the long grain board I use almost daily only gets a recoat every few months now. Even week or so when I first built it.
Salad bowl finish is fine as it doesn't really build on end grain if you put it on light.
Joe
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Mineral Oil or Mineral Oil with some paraffin melted into it (10% by volume)
the cutting boards ( edge grain maple ) my wife used in her resturaunt were not coated with anything,they were washed with warm soapy water , rinsed with 10% solution of bleach and wipe dry., after 24 years not one sick person nor food problem and the Health Dist never had any complaints.
Now, I use mineral oil.....
John 3:16
NOT to sound sarcastic, but I use "Butcher Block Oil".
I found a product at Lowe's called butcher block oil--I think it was by Watco? or Minwax? that I used on my last few cutting boards. I worked great.
I was a butcher when I was in high school and we scraped it with a thick wire brush, cleaned it with a weak bleach solution then oiled it with mineral oil. I'm assuming you mean a real butcher block and not a cutting board........Ron
I would use Mike Mahoney's walnut oil. http://www.bowlmakerinc.com/
A few hours south of Steve Schlumpf
IMO, Paul's wife's restaurant had the right idea. Oil will allow bacteria to breed, and live a long life.
Allen
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And.... I'm located just 1,075 miles SW of Steve Schlumpf.