For food safe items...bowls spoons etc I have read walnut oil and or mineral oil can be used. Are these the best and or only choices?
I made an ice cream scoop and used a two part epoxy to hold the metal to the wood and used danish oil and wipe on polyurethan on the handle.
I don't think that would be an issue as not in direct contact.
Thoughts and recommendations?
thanks
john / 02blues
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John, all is good. All modern finishes are food safe when fully cured (about 30 days). Long ago the finishes had lead and other heavy metals that are bad for us, but they don't/can'y use them any more.
I have read myths about food safe finsihes and how they came about to make more money, by selling you a smaller amount of the product. Look on the back of them and see what they really have in them. I read it in The Family Handyman "Understanding WOOD FINISHING by: Bob Flexner (Completely revised and updated, The food safe myth on page 76) I bought some unfinshed spoons at Bed bath and beyond for $4.50 and finished them with BLO waited three days, then wiped Rocklers wundercote on them found here: https://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?...Select=Reviews Waited 30 days to make sure they were fully cured and have been using them for about 8 months now....Nothing wrong with us.
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Last edited by MrAudio815; 02-15-2009 at 10:56 PM..
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Mineral oil is completely safe (it is sold in the pharmacy as a laxative), but it never dries. So you have to keep applying it as it washes away.
Organic cold pressed linseed oil is safe to eat, slowly dries to a hard finish in time and adds to the beauty of the wood. It does darken the wood but doesn't yellow as much as boiled linseed oil. They feed it to horses to keep them healthy and many folks take it in capsules as flax seed oil (exactly the same thing).
Most oil finishes do still contain some metallic driers and hydrocarbon thinners. While they dissipate somewhat over time they are not things I want to eat. The metals build up in your system over time and the health effects are not really known.
I started using the cold pressed oil a few months ago and I like it enough to throw away all the BOL and danish oil I had left.
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