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Post by applecrisp1 on Jul 20, 2017 21:27:29 GMT -5
I have a few wood spoons that I need to treat/they seem to be a bit dried out. I have some old spoons that I just never treat/oil or whatever, but I have a few spoons that are really nice hand crafted items.
So what if anything do you use/how often etc.
I don't want to use something that could go rancid. I've used mineral oil before but some sites don't recommend that. No surprise there are lots of differing opinions on what to use/not use.
Thanks.
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Post by wallycat on Jul 20, 2017 22:25:49 GMT -5
I have salad huge-tong-fork thingies that I occasionally treat with mineral oil. Regular mixing type wooden spoons bite the dust and I buy new ones if I need to.
Mineral oil is recommended for cutting boards/butcher blocks so I wonder why not for spoons.
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Post by applecrisp1 on Jul 20, 2017 22:36:55 GMT -5
Thx Wallycat.
I always thought that mineral oil is the usual go-to. I just noticed that some said suggested alternatives to it (and this was just treating any wood items used in the kitchen). I think one reason is that they say mineral oil is petroleum based (have to look that up, not real familiar) or perhaps they just prefer other products.
My cheapo wood spoons I don't worry about (and some of my old spoons look great and had zippo special care) but I do have some real pretty ones.
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Post by wallycat on Jul 21, 2017 10:29:20 GMT -5
Maybe the petroleum fear is the case. I have noticed that so many lotions/potions are being reformulated with new chemicals to make them "paraben free" and so many more skin irritations are cropping up. Even the BPA change over...the new stuff is showing some cause for concern. Sometimes, leaving stuff as is may be better.
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Post by applecrisp1 on Jul 21, 2017 10:57:10 GMT -5
I don't know if its true, legit claim or hype. I do recall that a place I bought some items from suggested (I think) beeswax.
Like anything, some could just be preference.
WC, I never heard about the issues with some of the BPA alternatives???
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Post by wallycat on Jul 21, 2017 12:05:55 GMT -5
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Post by charley on Jul 22, 2017 20:36:21 GMT -5
I use food safe mineral oil or Boos block beeswax.
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Post by applecrisp1 on Jul 24, 2017 11:42:57 GMT -5
Wallycat -- Thx for the article. Off to read it. I'm not a fan of plastics regardless -- will certainly check out the article.
charley -- Over the weekend, I used some food safe mineral oil on my knife block and bread knife. It is amazing what a difference it made. I've had a bottle of mineral oil that I bought at WS for years. And I mean years. I was wondering if it expired, from what I gathered I guess it doesn't. I've heard great things about the Boos products -- my friend raves about their oil and some kind of finishing cream (could be the same as what you mentioned).
Thanks,
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