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Attention Woodworking Eggers (other readers may pass this by!)… Food-safe finishes

RRP
RRP Posts: 26,449
edited September 13 in EggHead Forum
 A long story short but for years I have purposely delayed reading all my subscriptions to wood working magazines for 7 to 9 months. My favorite of ALL is Fine Wood Working. So anyway there was an interesting article written by an often published Oregon State University professor of wood anatomy, named Seri Robinson. That article appears on pages 42 - 46 back in the issue #313 dated December 2024. The professor explains why the best finish is NO FINISH.  If anyone is interested to read it, then please just send me a PM along with your email address and I will gladly share it...though it will be sometime this weekend.
Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    Raw wood is good for Salubrious Bacteria  , why cured meats in Europe are exceedingly better … back east there are producers that fought and won USDA rules to allow raw wood in their process 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    Well...let's see...so far I have only heard from 653 fellow wood butchers seeking the copies!!! 

    OK...so I lied...653 IS a bit of an exaggeration by 652!!! 

    Sorry gang - I really thought there were more wood butchers like me on this forum vs eggers here who I call friends vs people who want to spend the weekend burning up friendships by expressing their political views!

    Personally at 81 years old I give a rat's ass about reading HATE replies and therefore I never read ONE SINGLE one!!!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    Does it lock the moisture in?
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    RRP said:
     A long story short but for years I have purposely delayed reading all my subscriptions to wood working magazines for 7 to 9 months. My favorite of ALL is Fine Wood Working. So anyway there was an interesting article written by an often published Oregon State University professor of wood anatomy, named Seri Robinson. That article appears on pages 42 - 46 back in the issue #313 dated December 2024. The professor explains why the best finish is NO FINISH.  If anyone is interested to read it, then please just send me a PM along with your email address and I will gladly share it...though it will be sometime this weekend.
    @RRP-I'm beyond learning anything more about wood and especially drying properties. But I appreciate your passion for pursuing the challenge with wrestling with mother nature and the variances that come with the that endeavor. No finish has got to be a really different and somewhat confrontational push against the establishment.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Buckwoody Egger
    Buckwoody Egger Posts: 1,466
    edited September 14
    Interesting thought Ron and thanks for bringing it up. Plenty of old cabins and other older structures still standing without a hint of finish on the interior. Floors, walls, etc.  Biggest challenge is winning the battle vs powderpost beetles. 

    Not much in common with food safety but still nice to challenge the “why”. 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    edited September 14
    alaskanassasin said:
    Does it lock the moisture in?
    No. You rinse off the board and the wood absorbs the water plus the bacteria. Then as the water evaporates it leaves the bacteria behind where it dies from lack of moisture and oxygen needed to sustain it.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,552
    RRP said:
    alaskanassasin said:
    Does it lock the moisture in?
    No. You rinse off the board and the wood absorbs the water plus the bacteria. Then as the water evaporates it leaves the bacteria behind where it dies from lack of moisture and oxygen needed to sustain it.
    That's the beauty of wood verse plastic
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • WoodworkerBED
    WoodworkerBED Posts: 84
    Yes, I am an Egger and a woodworker and Fine Woodworking is also my favorite magazine.  I read the referenced article when it first came out.  I will be making a large cutting board for my brothers and I will not be finishing it with anything.  WoodworkerBED
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