How do you all clean your knifes after use and please include how to protect carbon knifes from rust.
Many thanks,
Bushferret
Many thanks,
Bushferret
Soapy water and some cooking oil, mate.
Anything else is just obsessive and anal.
Until the cooking oil goes rancid....:tongue-ti
If very dirty, a few drops of washing liquid, massage in with fingers, then wash off under water. Dry. A drop of Mineral Oil on a finger, rub it in.
If just a little bit dirty, I omit the washing up liquid.
Treat all my knives like that, including my Japanese kitchen knives. Those are really, really, REALLY rust prone, but mineral oil keeps them happy.
According to instructions online, an oil from Magnolia should be used, but I can not buy that stuff here.
Never use olive oil, or any other cooking oils.
Leather scabbards - shoe oil ( Mink oil) on the outside when new, to impregnate.
I completely and utterly disagree.
They work fine and I've used them on outdoor broom handles, axes, knives and leather for about 10 years with never an issue. Only see rubbery oil scum on the top of my toolbox linseed oil bottle.
Any more of this blasphemy and I shall indeed challange thee to a duel!
Yes, linseed oil, both raw and boiled is very good. Food oils can go rank.
I accept the duel, and as the opponent that got asked, I choose weapon and type of duellinh
Ok?