Thread: Food safe wood?

Originally Posted by Fumbler

... some of the timber I am using may have been soaked in creosote at one point (as an old fence post) and the old palate treated with insecticide ...

Now that's different, even though sometimes again you need a lot to get sick, the poisons are a problem (not the wood itself) and I wouldn't risk it. I have still turned a fair bit of both, using appropriate protection, but it was all for ultimately outside use not pepper grinders or anything associated with food.