Missed that thread....
My fingers used to be dark purple/brown to almost black from working with green white oak all day in high humidity conditions... looked terrible!
John
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Cutting Board material
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Has anyone considered the toxic effect ? Some wood is Toxic / dangerous. Many Rosewoods are that way in some level.
Ipe in my program - The Wood Explorer - search for it on-line -
is listed as 'some toxic effect' Generally light considering others.
In the list of uses - food vessels is not listed but construction is.
Martin
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Isn't mineral oil the one to use ?
Mart> Josepi wrote:
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I researched the toxicity a while back--a few people seem to be allergic to the dust--otherwise it's like green bread mold--might not like it very much but it won't hurt you and may do you a little good.
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I never see yours either.
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Is mineral oil OK for human consumption? I was never sure what it was, exactly.
Shortening, for people that bake, will fill the holes and stay put and never go rancid without refrigeration. Any vegetable oils require refrigeration and expire for human consumption once exxposed to air. Animal fats go rancid in similar situations.
I tried a lof of different oils on mine and the Crisco actually stayed in the board. My D-I-L used to wear the board lube out with one chopping session (tabuli making). Not any more with the shortening for the last ten years.
Mart> Josepi wrote:
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Is mineral oil OK for human consumption? I was never sure what it was, exactly.
***********************************************Yes, it is used in some pharmaceuticals and in large quantities, works as a laxative. I tis by far the first choice for cutting boards.
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Uhhh...Crisco is made from vegetable oils. Cottonseed and soybean, specifically.
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I'm sure you did lof a lot. I am.
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Yes, and most vegetable oils go racid without refigeration. Each one has it's own criteria for spoil temperatures. Crisco does not require refrigeration or go rancid at room temperature and it stays around.
Next time you eat your vegetable salad add some cotton for flavour.
If you want a maple cutting board you don't have to oil every month or worry about getting poisoned with rancid fats use the saturated fat shortenings or another oil product that doesn't do rancid at room temperature with air exposure.
With mineral oil being a toxic petroleum product, I would stay away from that one. Leave it for your meachines.
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Do you get your stupid by pill or injection? I realize that you'd prefer to remain clueless, as you're so good at it and you have a lot of time invested, but on the odd chance...DAGS "mineral oil cutting board".
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Do you always end a conversation with an attention troll?
Drink some petroleum products and tell us how that goes. Tell us how much petroleum product you consume each year and how it how it give you diarhea because it is good for you.
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If you mean pharmaceutical grade mineral oil it goes fine.
The same way that 100 percent organic prunes give you diarrhea. So I guess they aren't good for you either.
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Sorry, prunes do **NOT** give you diarhea unless you have an intorleance or allergy to them. They soften your stool like a good upholsterer only with fiber intake.
Where do people get the idea that dietary fibre give your diarhea?
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I realize you are the resident expert on diarrhea (of the keyboard kind), but do you get diarrhea every time you eat out? Nearly every restaurant you have ever been in oils their cutting boards with mineral oil. It's the industry standard.
You are really clueless. You have a streak going - keep it up. Here's another tidbit for you to ignore - from Wiki: "Any given ChapStick may contain camphor, beeswax, menthol, petrolatum, phenol, vitamin E, and aloe."
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So that would would be a NO on the googling, huh?
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Eat a hundred of them and get back to us.
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Josepi would be much happier if he applied some mineral oil to the broomstick before he inserted it.
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He doesn't know how.
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Ive never used it, but I think bees wax could work well maybe melted into some mineral oil and applied hot if you insist on complicating things. I am around Ipe a lot. I would never use it for a cutting board. The stuff stinks, it stains, it dulls tools. All the qualities that make it great for outdoor and a few other projects make it a terrible choice for a cutting board, at least one that will actually be used. This has all been figured out years ago, why not keep it simple. A relatively flavorless tight grained wood, oiled as needed with an oil that won't turn ranced (mineral). sheesh