Olive Oil Wood Finish Rancid

It all depends on the process by which the oil was removed.

Olive oil wood finish rancid.

Olive oil won t go bad. It does not change color or texture or become dangerous. I unfortunately took bad advice from a well meaning person and used olive oil to condition and protect an old wooden toy box heirloom and some solid wood toys. In this video i show how i make a beeswax paste finish for my woodworking projects and wooden toys using beeswax and olive oil.

The oil in the mixture conditions the wood but does not linger on the surface. This recipe only works on finished wood. Russ fairfield i have never found olive oil to be any different from any other nut seed or vegetable oil when it comes to turning rancid. Therefore the flavor and aroma slightly change from time to time there is no exact answer as to how long olive oil keeps its peak quality once opened.

You could use walnut oil too but that is really expensive. There are two 2. I carved 70 spoons and 30 forks and what stock i have left still smells sweet and fresh even with no use at all. Show notes available at http.

Olive oil has a tendency to go rancid after a few months which imparts a weird flavor to the food one is cutting. Combine two parts olive oil to one part lemon juice. Backward application of charles law of gas physics. Properly heat baked into the wood olive oil can t go rancid.

You could substitute vegetable oil or linseed oil for the olive oil but you should avoid the use of virgin olive oil because it doesn t work nearly as well. Now you could make a cutting board finish by using mineral oil instead of olive oil. The oils will sweat out of the wood even years later not rancid when the wood gets warmed up. There is no residual smell of the olive oil on the furniture.

My recipe is a 3 2 mixture of mineral oil food grade to bees wax food grade. Now both the toy box and my children s toy s smell horrendous and i am worried about the oil being a health hazard and the smell is overwhelming my living room. It has nothing to do with whether it comes from a fruit nut seed or plant. Comments for rancid olive oil in un finished wood.