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

[Micheal]

 Since we are discussing wooden objects.
 Storage of the item is as important as is cleaning it.  In a volunteer 
society this can be a problem.
 Our baronial cooks guild had a wonderful collection of wooden and 
alternative materials. Right up until some one left it on their back porch 
for several weeks, in chicken shipping cartons inside the plastic shipping 
bag.
 the person I am being polite here honestly said, Well they were all washed 
before I put them in the boxes.
 Now we have no wood or any other item that could absorb from before that 
incident date.  Simply could not take the chance.
 Da
  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] To oil or not to oil?


> Gab mentioned
>> I use a food grade Walnut oil for my wooden feast gear..it works great
>> and is again food grade.
>
> So, is walnut oil one of the oils that won't go rancid? I think I can 
> easily get that in the grocery or at least the specialty groceries  like 
> Central Market or Whole Foods. I can remember a few years back  trying to 
> find a food-grade wood finish. At lot of those I found  probably were, but 
> the manufacturers weren't going to say they were  because of liability 
> questions.
>
> I also think I forgot to mention this file in the CRAFTS section when  I 
> mentioned files with info on wood finishes yesterday.
> wood-utensils-msg (13K)  4/21/00    Making and finishing wooden  utensils, 
> mugs.
>
> Stefan
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