Thread starter Bobostro61 Generap date Feb 16, It is all I use now for my bowls. I use it to restore restaurant cutting boards used daily and not well cared for by staff. Comments Maple Bowl "This maple bowl is sitting on the log it was cut from. Also with polish and wax. First Gatsby.

Should be easier to get from Germany then anything from NA. This past weekend at a show at Hartville Tool Ohio, USA I discussed at length with a Behlen's factory representative the toxicity and suitability of various finishing products for items used in food preparation, serving and storage, and particularly for cutting boards and serving dishes and bowls. He confirmed that several finishing products are not toxic once fully dried, e.

It's more often that the solvents in the finish coating materials that are hazardous to ingest. Behlen's salad bowl finish is made of ingredients that are certified by the government to be non-toxic, so that is the only product they openly and officially promote for use in contact with food.

He did not recommend their salad bowl finish for cutting boards, because the finish sits on the surface and will be cut by knives and then small pieces will flake off. These pieces won't cause any harm if ingested, but your cutting board will not continue to look good if you use it as a cutting board.

He reommended mineral oil, or one of the curing type oils, provided you allowed enough time for the curing type oil e. The cutting board is going to need touching up to maintain its appearance, and there is no waiting between uses of the cutting board if maintained with use of mineral oil.

Dave R. Friends, family and Festools make for a good retirement. I'm not so sure. When I make a cutting board and give it as a gift, I get a bottle of mineral oil from the drugstore and give it to them as well. I tell them to wash with warm soapy water and rinse and dry after use.

Don't let it soak in water or use the dishwasher. Then when needed usually about every three months, they can reapply the oil with a paper towel and let it soak in for a bit and buff dry. If it gets too rough or cut up, they can bring it back and I'll run it throught the drum sander for a new look.

Marc Spagnoulo from the woodwhisperer has a method using thinned varnish, soaking all the way through an end grain cuttinboard, sealing all the fibers. I think he thins the varnish and soaks the cutting board top until it comes out the bottom side. I haven't tried that yet but he seems to like it.

Pages: [ 1 ] Go Up. SMF 2. Skyline by DzinerStudio. Do not subscribe to one a finish is dry it is food safe, while FDA list many toxic chemcial that are safe for food contact do not list andy wood finishing products.

Drying times do not equal curing time, most film finishes provide an in use time knowing full well their product may take more days or up to more than one month to fully cure. When in doubt look at product MSDS and see if you want to eat of that bowl once finished. If turn a bowl for someone wanting to eat out of it; I use mineral oil as a finish, and give that person a small bottle of mineral oil to refinish as needed. Use film finish on ninety nine percent of my bowls and tell people my bowls are not food safe whether giving or selling.

Joined Feb 7, Messages My Bad. Last edited: Feb 17, The Penguin Member. Here is an excerpt from the full version of the Fine woodworking article you referenced From the pay site. It is their list of Edible Finishes. I deleted the description for all but Shellac. Raw linseed oil. A secretion from the lac bug. Harvested in India. Sold in woodworking catalogs and hardware and art supply stores. When I do my salad bowls with the same finish I use a non selulose sanding sealer 1st and then 3 coats if this to a high gloss shine.

This one is a semi gloss. The only people have sold bowls to wanting them for food prep or use knew all about mineral oil. They grew up in families using wood bowls. I use laxative type of mineral oil only.

Do not use industrial mineral oil or baby oil. I like walnut oil but shy away from it because of quality issues and cost. Almost all walnut oil from vendors catering to woodworkers get their walnut oil from salad industry. You can also buy walnut oil from health food or art supply stores.

Suppliers often less than honest about quality of their oil. Will find not always getting cold pressed oil, additives to keep oil clear and from stinking often added. Not until bowls elevated to an art form did we see oil varnish blends and film finishes used on bowls.

I know several turners that use oil varnish blends and eat out of those bowls and simply wipe clean. You have not lived until see a film finished bowl come out of a dishwasher and someone ask if you can make it shinny again! Plain old hot soapy water destroys a lot of wood bowl finishes too! If get around green community will find they do not like Shellac because of DNA used in that finish. If going to turn bowls and used them in your home that is one thing but if going to sell them be careful about marketing them.

I sell more bowls as works of art than for food use. I just do not get fine art prices for those bowls. General or Behlens Salad bowl finish will give you a gloss finish but it isn't as easy as it seems. I would flood the first coat to seal, wait a few days and then sand with about a grit depending on how deep you needed to fill. Then wipe on a few coats and sand with grit. Then wipe on a few more coats and sand with Then wipe on a few more coats. Then wet sand with and then wet sand with and grit.

OK, now buff with the Beal system, white diamond and then Carnuba wax. Providing you don't use a knife in the bowl. For a real food safe bowl with high gloss finish it is the only way I know of that works. This is outside of the world that says all finishes that have dried are food safe. These are actually tested. There is no magic to their formula to make them "safe" compared to many other products that are not FDA approved.

So if you are nervous about chemicals and metals, FDA approval may not mean what you think. If you trust the FDA, many other products on the market have the same make-up just not the expensive approval.

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