[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 19, Issue 88

[Ruth Tannahill]

>
> Ruth Tannahill wrote:
>
> >For example: Pier 1 sells wooden chargers that are not food safe. The
reason
> >they are not food safe is that they have been finished with something
that
> >is not food safe. I would go ahead and put bread, fruit, or cheese on
one,
> >but I would not slurp up sauce off one.
> >
> >

Lonnie Harval wrote:
> I have a dozen or so of these wooden charges from Pier 1. I use them for
> bread, and cheese and such as you suggest. I was wondering, however, if
> there is a way to seal them to make them food safe? I was told by some
> folks at a recent even that I could pick up what I needed at Michael's
> (a craft store chain), but I never quite caught what it was I would need.
>
> Suggestions?

Ruth writes again:

Not from me. I would be forever afraid that even if I did seal it with
something food safe, I might scratch the outer finish and expose the
non-food-safe layer, without knowing I'd done so. I just put the soup in the
food-safe bowl.

Now, if I had an UNFINISHED charger, I would just rub in the mineral oil or
block oil (butcher block oil, not engine block oil) and use it.

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