How To Finish Wooden Spoons
Water has a way of messing with wood causing the wood to expand and then as the wood dries it shrinks and then your really cool spoon splits down the middle.
How to finish wooden spoons. It creates a non-toxic finish that resists water and alcohol. The film-forming finish is going to chip crack and with use in a very short time going to become a mess. Even though I had high hopes it would provide a tough barrier to.
Then come back and wipe off the excess. This video was sponsored by Squarespace. While his favorite wooden spoon soaked he prepped the peppers.
It may be silly no it is silly but not using sandpaper can be a source of pride for woodworkers of all stripes spoon carvers included. Butcher block olive peanut or vegetable oil. It is expensive to get enough to soak the spoons in it.
Linseed oil is also a more traditional finish for wooden ware in Scandinavia. Sand your spoon to 220-grit then apply a nontoxic oil finish eg. Dont use food-based oil like vegetable or olive oil since these types of oils can go rancid.
Milk has a kind of protein called casein that forms a sort of plastic coating. 100 pure walnut oil is perfect for use on wooden utensils such as spreaders salad hands servers bowls and spoons. Wooden cutting boards and spoons can eventually split as they dry out or are exposed to extreme temperature changes.
Finally you can burnish it with a piece of metal rod antler horn basically anything hard than the wood. Ive never been able to call a spoon finished without sanding especially the bowl of the spoon. Make sure youre using skimmed milk as its the milk fats which lead to that spoiled milk smell.