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Just a quicky. Does coconut oil go rancid like olive oil?

I was thinking of using it on a fruit bowl as a food-safe finish.

TIA ... Mark.
 
According to this article it's very good provided you use refractionated oil.

https://www.cuttingboard.com/blog/what- ... ing-board/

"This leaves an almost pure oil that will NOT go rancid, is shelf stable and is superior to most other oils for treating not just cutting boards, but your kitchen utensilsr, salad bowls, countertops... you get the idea."
 
NazNomad":3bi79dzy said:
Does coconut oil go rancid like olive oil?
All natural oils can go rancid, but coconut oil is very resistant to oxidative rancidification because it's highly saturated.

As a result some people consider it one of the best natural oils to put onto wood. But long before coconut oil came on the scene other vegetable oils were used for the same sort of thing and most didn't give problems, and none of them are high in saturated fat.

NazNomad":3bi79dzy said:
Blimey, that's a handy website, good find. :)
A friend of mine warned me about that site a year or two ago after he became aware of it and from reading just a few entries I could see where he was coming from so I have to pay it forward: read with caution! It's full of rubbish statements dressed up as facts.

What's sold as Salad Bowl Finish tells us a lot about what's actually considered a food-safe finish in the real world and the best selling one in the US is merely heavily diluted varnish.
 
I just plain mineral oil on anything used for food. I don't buy the expensive stuff in small bottles, I buy Horse Laxative, it's food grade, obviously and very cheap, good pure mineral oil.
 
Great idea ... Plus, I can really see the comedy value of putting horse laxative on a 'for humans' item :-D
 
NazNomad":25ebyq1y said:
Great idea ... Plus, I can really see the comedy value of putting horse laxative on a 'for humans' item :-D

It always raises an eyebrow when family ask me to oil a chopping board or something :lol:
 
I love that it's called SKYDD :-D

I found a litre for £8.99 on Amazon, my nearest Ikea is 100 miles away. :-(
 
That's a pretty good price. Just make sure it is food grade rather than cosmetic grade, they are not quite the same.

Oh and also try looking for liquid paraffin, sometimes that is cheaper and it's the same thing. Looking back I think that's what it says on my bottle of horse laxative.
 
Cobblers, I hadn't read down that far, it DOES say use for butcher's blocks though ... Does it say it's ok to eat your horse laxatives? :-D

I'm wondering if a petroleum by-product really is the way to go, medically AND morally.
 
It wouldn't wash if the product was sold commercially, but I wonder if the main difference between pharmaceutical and for human consumption is little more than another expensive layer of testing and certifying?
 
Rorschach":3fbdxypo said:
Pharmaceutical is not the same as food grade

Indeed, Pharmaceutical grade is more pure than food grade it seems:

http://www.ehow.com/info_12044319_diffe ... l-oil.html

I've read lots of food processing machinery is lubricated with mineral oil so I guess many of us consume tiny amounts if you ever eat things like frozen chips etc. :wink:
 
A lot of these "pharmaceutical" grade oils are marketed to masseurs, smelly oil people etc, as such they sometimes have additives in them for scent or to make them go further.
Someone notes in the comments of this one that the oil has a smell to it, my own oil smells of nothing that I can tell.

I know for certain that something designed for food use or as a laxative is going to be safe to ingest, horses are worth a lot more people! lol
 
According to the information in the link If it has additives then it's not pharmaceutical grade. :wink:
 

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