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Thread: Which wood for butchers block?
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26th March 2009, 05:34 PM #16New Member
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hi guys i have just joined here after just starting doin a bit of woodwork am really enjoying it i just made our maltese a whelping box to have her puppies in and now i am making a computer desk for my missus just basic stuff and also i am making my sister a butchers block for their new house being built . is the wax sealing method easy to do?
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26th March 2009, 05:58 PM #17SENIOR MEMBER
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We cut some blocks( about 800mm diam and 800 high) for butchers blocks and they specified Rough Barked Apple, which I think use to be an Angophora but it's probably had a name change by now.
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26th March 2009, 10:49 PM #18
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28th March 2009, 07:08 AM #19
Here in the UK Beech is the preferred wood for end-grain Chopping boards and despite everything they try and get you to believe it has been proven that they are as hygienic to use as those plastic things.
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28th March 2009, 07:26 AM #20Hewer of wood
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On the anti-microbial effects of wood, there is a bit of positive evidence btw.
See post 12 at http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...pine+parasitesCheers, Ern
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28th March 2009, 08:01 PM #21
I am 70 years old and butchers here in Australia have been using wooden chopping blocks long before I was born and I have been eating meat off them for all those years and I am still around and still healthy.
Plastic hasn't been around all that long and it does have a dodgy past as far food is concerned and I think the jury is still out on that. Plastic can taint the flavour of food. My father-in-law has a water tank made from resin coated fibreglass and it makes the water taste terrible.
We refuse to keep any foodstuffs in plastic and use glass containers.
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