Thread: Food grade finish for plywood

Try the Ubeaut's own special food safe finish for chopping boards. I did and I was happy with it.

Peter.

Hi Brent48,

The 'Organoil' product is labelled as food safe after curing. It's rather expensive. I use Macadamia Nut oil. It's claimed that it's one of the few vegetable oils that don't in time go rancid. It's fairly inexpensive.


Old Pete

Originally Posted by old pete

Hi Brent48,

I use Macadamia Nut oil.


Old Pete

That's okay if the recipient hasn't got a nut allergy. The same for peanut oil.


Peter.

feast watson make one called "kitchen oil"

The U Beaut food safe for me no unwanted odours and 100% foodsafe.

Hi Sturdee,

Thank you for pointing out that critical limitation that needs to be applied to finishing materials used to treat food utensils such as cutting boards and salad bowls. I occasionally make up cutting boards to utilize short high quality timber that I can't bear to throw out into useful, if unprofitable, product. I'll be placing a label on such items in future specifying the finish used.

I think some of the proprietary foods finishes are based on Tung oil which is derived from the nuts of the plant. Don't know if folk with high level allergenic tendencies would be sensitive to this as well?? Can someone clarify this one??.

Happy Xmas. Old Pete

Originally Posted by Sturdee

That's okay if the recipient hasn't got a nut allergy. The same for peanut oil.


Peter.

FOODSAFE PLUS

Most plastic type finishes are food safe when dry. Not necessarily all that safe in their liquid state or their fumes. Apparently some can become toxic if washed in dish washer due to chemicals in the detergent. This came from the head chemist at a well known paint company about 17 years ago and may have changed now.

The best answer is above in red and above and way above.

Darky

I believe Olde World Paints Home Page natural cold-pressed & filtered linseed oil waxes and oils are all foodsafe.
You could ask them. (and I'm not affiliated with them,or making money from their sales, but am enjoying using their products as an end-user).

Phil Irons Uk woodturner suggests liquid parrafin for wooden food utensils. I bought some from my local chemist the other day; roughly $5 for 500ml. Looked at the label when I got home and it is to be taken for constipation

This is one of these cases where national/international terminology can have varying meanings for the same or different products, and one needs to be very careful.

Liquid parrafin, or parrafin oil here in Australia is akin to Johnson's (or even No Frills) Baby Oil. You can also buy 44 gallon drums of the stuff from Shell, or Mobil etc.
It's a mineral-based oil anyway, here, as opposed to the tung/Danish/linseeds which are natural/plant based oils.

I'm pretty sure in USA, (and definitely in various other countries) parrafin is their word for our Aussie Kerosine - for using in the old kero firdges, kero lamps, and kero heaters, if you still have them. Parrafin to them is not the clear baby-oil stuff.
I wouldn't go dunking salad serving wooden spoons & forks in kero!

I do know in UK, they call what we call parrafin oil, as 'Pig Oil' (because it is painted on the backs of pigs as a sunburn preventative or something like that- NOT because it is made from pigs; it isn't!)

Then there's parrafin wax - used for sealing home-made jams etc. That's a different stuff again.

It's a bit like what some overseas countries call 'white spirit' - which in some cases may used in place of our Aussie mineral turps, and in some cases is used in place of our Aussie metho. Once you venture overseas, or borrow from overseas terminology relating to chemicals like this, you need to be very, very careful.

Parrafin is one of those words with many different meanings for a few different products in many different places-it's not safe to assume they are all the same as 'we' know them to be.