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Refinishing an Old Butcher Block
Asked by P.K. from Albuquerque
on August 22, 2010
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I have just rescued my uncle's old butcher block that has been outside on a covered patio for the last 15 years. I intend to sand the block to remove all the grim: wh...
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- If you are going to use it for food then you want to use a food safe oil like mineral oil. You can find it at bed bath and beyond (http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/pro...
- You oil it after that. Keep rubbing oil into it. It will take a lot after that much neglect.
- alton brown did a special on how to re-finish a butcher block, it was simple, there was a certain kind of oil that he used (i think it was a cooking oil but it wasn't ...
Refinishing Butcher Block
Asked by C.M. from Phoenix
on April 10, 2009
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So I've sanded down the butcher block to the point it looks practically new. I was planning on using Mineral Oil and then Beeswax to refinish it. But my neighbor, wh...
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- I talked personally to a cutting board master. He stated to refinish a cutting board: sand with a wet sand paper and only use mineral oil nothing else. The wood does w...
- You can use the mineral oil, but you can also treat with walnut oil too (that is what I use on my bamboo cutting board) it leaves no smell, and as long as you use a th...
- We had a butcher block island previously and always used just mineral oil on it. That's what we use on our wood cutting boards too. Cheap and easy. I haven't heard of...
