Chopping board

[Paulfreebury]

Hi all just wondering what type of wood to make a chopping board from? And how do you treat it to ready for food preparation?

[Salix Tree & Countryside]

Sycamore mate........its totally food safe, just oil it with veg oil like olive oil or summat similiar when finished

 

Mark

[Mark James]

Sycamore mate........its totally food safe, just oil it with veg oil like olive oil or summat similiar when finished

 

Mark

 

What wood would not be food safe just curious as don't know.

 

 

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[Paulfreebury]

Cheers mark, guess what I'm doing tomorrow.

[tommer9]

Beech oak or sycamore are all excellent.

oil as mentioned above, or these guys offer some superb products, including food safe finishes.

This is an oak one i made for the raffle:

[wisewood]

Lovely board there

As regards to unsafe woods, this link might be worth a look.

Safe and Dangerous Woods

I guess walnut may be a no no for nut allergy reasons.

[rovers90]

I was talking to a guy at the Great Yorkshire Show who made chopping boards and longer ones to go down the centre of the table and he recommended anything for food use should be kiln dried.

[tommer9]

I think the whole thing about kilning stuff for food use is from a disproportional sense of danger that is drummed into society nowadays. Unless you supply something with bugs obviously crawling on it then once the piece is sanded and oiled it is safe. (Kilning is supposed to eliminate bugs).

Or perhaps he was selling kilned products........

[Gnarlyoak]

Lovely board there

As regards to unsafe woods, this link might be worth a look.

www.birdsafe.com[/b]/woods.htm]Safe and Dangerous Woods

I guess walnut may be a no no for nut allergy reasons.

 

The list of safe & unsafe woods seems to only be pertinent to the safety of birds (website was a bit of a giveaway). Since we were discussing the safety of wood in manufacture of chopping boards (for human food prepartion) not a bird table (bird food presentation) it probably is'nt relevant.

[Big J]

Depends on whether you like the customer or not:

 

Oak, Elm, Sycamore, Beech etc if you like them.

 

Yew or Laburnum if you don't!