[TheForge] Finish on a fork

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Wouldn't it have been better to forge a stainless steel fork?
>
> Iron reacts with many food flavor components particularly short chain
acids,
> producing that "iron flavor/odor". Producing a coating on iron that is
> durable that wouldn't produce off flavors in something you are eating
would
> be difficult. The thick oil seasoned polymerized coating on iron cookware
is
> often to thin to not produce that "iron flavor".
>
> Mike McKim

I don't think so, Mike. If you read the rest of his posting, it's his first
fork and he's a new smith, and it took him a week to do it. He may also be
planning to use it for some form of reenactment- if so, and the group is
heavily into athenticity, stainless would be right out.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....