Food Safe Lubricant

[santaman2000]

Best thing to do is for all of us to destroy carbon blades and use stainless steel blades in case someone is allergic to any oil someone may have used.

I like the way carbo steel handles but you definitely have a point.

 

[Highbinder]

Best thing to do is for all of us to destroy carbon blades and use stainless steel blades in case someone is allergic to any oil someone may have used.

Tongue in cheek, rik?

 

[nic.]

On our carbon steel kitchen knives I use what ever cooking oil is to hand on the handle and blade then rub off the excess with a paper towel. Never noticed any oil going rancid. Good point about peanut oil, allergies are worth taking seriously.

 

[Woz888]

Like dj77, I use Camellia oil on my "food" blades, in fact, all my blades, to avoid any contamination from petro chemicals. Makes a very good, although expensive, furniture polish as well.

 

[mountainm]

I've been using grape seed oil as we had a bottle left in the cupboard unused. It's interesting stuff - doesn't seem to go rancid but dries leaving a "tacky" protective residue.

 

[FerlasDave]

I use vaseline.

 

[John Fenna]

The fat off Bacon Grill......

 

[sapper1]

If there's any left!

 

[santaman2000]

On our carbon steel kitchen knives I use what ever cooking oil is to hand on the handle and blade then rub off the excess with a paper towel. Never noticed any oil going rancid. Good point about peanut oil, allergies are worth taking seriously.

Yeah. I always used to kinda scoff at them as imagined. Then one night we had to rush a cousin to the Emergency Room after eating at a local fish camp. They fry in peanut oil and the swelling was closing off her windpipe.

 

[santaman2000]

The fat off Bacon Grill......

That's a good lube for the patch on muzzle loading guns too.

 

[rik_uk3]

Tongue in cheek, rik?

No mate, serious, health and shaftyou regulations and all that. Not worth the risk that someone with nut allergy also has a phobia for licking carbon steel blades:yikes:

 

[John Fenna]

No mate, serious, health and shaftyou regulations and all that. Not worth the risk that someone with nut allergy also has a phobia for licking carbon steel blades:yikes:

Anyone licking my knives would probably have a death-wish anyway..... nobody touches my knives!

 

[Loenja]

Anyone licking my knives would probably have a death-wish anyway..... nobody touches my knives!

damn, you got there first i was going to say that