[Sca-cooks] To oil or not to oil?

[Heather M]

Volker Bach wrote:

>Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 00:21 schrieb otsisto:
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>>Mineral oil if you must oil. Most oils mentioned below can and do go bad.
>>Linseed is not a food safe oil.
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>That surprises me a bit as it is sold here both as a food ingredient and 
>(mixed with 10% beeswax) as a treatment for wooden kitchen utensils. Is this 
>an FDA regulation? They sometimes seem to go a bit over the top. I was quite 
>surprised to hear that apparently woodruff was also disapproved of for 
>chidren. 
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>Giano
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This is not the case here in the States. I use a similar treatment, and 
it's a combination of mineral oil and beeswax sold commercially as salad 
bowl wax. And, I might add, it's just lovely for my wooden utensils and 
bowls.

Margaret Northwode, who also thinks it smells nice