[TheForge] Kitchen Utensil Finish?

[Bruce Freeman]

Gun blue?!  What IS it?  Do you want to eat off it?

Wipe the blasted thing with polyunsaturated vegetable oil and heat it
at 400F for an hour or so.  If it's black to start with, it'll be black
and shiny when you finish.  If it's shiny, it'll be brown and ugly, but
safet to eat from.

If you want shiny to stay shiny, heat it to 400F, then apply oil
thinly, wiping off the excess.  The protection is the same but will have
to be renewed more frequently.

This polymerized vegetable oil is the original non-stick pan coating. 
Works on iron, stainless steel, aluminum or whatever.

Bruce
NJ

>>> osan at netlabs.net 12/20/2004 11:24:56 AM >>>


Phil wrote:
> Gosh, it's kind of like "I've fallen and I can't get
> up!"
> 
> I'm making some toasting forks as a Christmas gift.  I
> can't remember if it's better to put the cooking oil
> finish on cold or hot.  What do you folks think?

	If they're meant to be used, I might suggest gun blue them
first, if 
the metal is white, and give a light coat of oil cold.  I'm not sure, 
but I don't think the cooking oil will polymerize the way linseed oil 
does.  In any event, the oil will have to be replaced after every use,

so cold would seem to be the ticket.


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