[TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT

[Bruce Freeman]

Purely paraffinic (saturated) mineral oil won't "dry" (i.e., polymerize).   Unsaturated "mineral" oils should dry, but I don't know a convenient source of these, other than chemical catalogs.

There IS a work-around, though.  Polyethylene is essentially "polymerized mineral oil".  It can be melted onto a hot surface.  Works pretty well, and looks nice.  I don't know why blacksmiths don't use this more often.  It could be the answer to all those questions of protecting steel outdoors.

Bruce

>>> lance at bentoaks.org 8/15/2005 11:12:14 PM >>>
try mineral oil, clean and doesn,t turn or get sticky


 Lance


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