Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly?

• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lol, good luck. also please no petroleum products on wooden kitchenware. smh

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  • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is literal food grade mineral oil for this exact purpose along with lubricating food making equipment. It’s basically completely inert and is sometimes even used as a food ingredient. You can straight up drink a jug of the stuff with no health repercussions other than the violent greasy shits you would get from drinking any oil. Just because it’s a petroleum product doesn’t automatically mean its bad for you.

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    • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You had me at “violent greasy shits”

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      • turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        mineral oil is sold at the pharmacy as a laxitive. so yeah, violent greasy shits.

        it’s also cheaper to buy at the pharmacy than it is to buy at the woodworking shops as a finish. same stuff tho.

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    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you cite any research, not sponsored by the petroleum industry, that relates to this opinion? Walnut oil is a food product, is made from walnuts, doesn't go rancid, and works quite well for maintenance of cutting boards and other wooden kitchen ware.

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      • turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        walnut oil is lovely. it doesn’t penetrate the wood as deeply as the mineral oil + beeswax tho.

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  • turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i mean, ok. but as an actual woodworker, my knowledge base shows mineral oil to be a standard food grade treatment for wooden kitchen implements.

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    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And as an actual woodworker, what does your knowledge base have to say about walnut oil?

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      • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not the person you asked, but I recently did some finish tests with natural drying oils.

        Besides tung oil, linseed oil, hemp oil and perilla oil, the wallnut oil dried the slowest by far (talking weeks of difference) and needs added airflow and UV light to make anything happen (tung oil and perilla oil even dry out in the dark).

        Besides, there’s the slight chance of an undried pocket coming into contact with someone who is allergic.

        In my opinion, not worth it with those great alternatives.

        I might have used “bad” walnut oil, I had only one sample, but it was unprocessed, organic walnut oil, the expensive stuff. Maybe you need to use the refined, cheap oil to get better results for woodworking.

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• turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  the mineral oil makes the beeswax into a soft paste. it wipes out of the pot quite easily.

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