Production, processing and operation of wooden utensils. How to varnish wooden spoons

If you were lucky enough to buy wooden cutlery at the fair, or by hand , then, following the joy of new gizmos, will you think about how and how to process wooden utensils for food?

Various types of stains and varnishes disappear, they are not at all suitable for processing wooden cutlery, as they can be harmful to health.

In any undertaking, it is better to focus on the advice and recommendations of the masters, for whom the procedure for impregnating wood products has already become “native”. In the process of mastering different methods, you will probably choose the most suitable one for you, or you will be able to develop your own unique method.

No matter how different the processing recipes are for different craftsmen, two main methods of impregnation can be distinguished:

• Treatment of wooden utensils with oil (vegetable or linseed)
• Impregnation of wood products with mastic (oil mixed with beeswax)

Vegetable or linen?

If you are a beginner, then you can soak your first wooden spoon or spatula with vegetable oil. Take better oil refined, it has less smell. But still, the "experienced" masters eventually switch to linen. It does not give a taste of rancidity, it is better absorbed and healthier. And if you look at our wise ancestors, they covered all wooden kitchen utensils with linseed oil.

Recipes for oil impregnations with herbs

For the most sophisticated, who enjoy the constant search for something more, there are several recipes for oil infusions. They are made from different types medicinal herbs and roots:

1. Mint oil. Mint dried in advance should be rubbed well. Powder from dry leaves should be about 100g. We pour it into glass bottle, add 0.5 l of linseed oil, cork and shake thoroughly. We leave to infuse for about 2 weeks. Do not forget to shake the infusion every day. We filter the resulting mint impregnation through cheesecloth.
2. Oil with dandelion roots, or with angelica roots. The preparation procedure is the same as in the first version with mint, but in this case, the roots of the plants are finely chopped and poured in the proportion of 1 part of the root to 5 parts of the oil.
3. Collection of seven roots. This oil infusion is good for a strong concentration of tannins contained in the roots of plants. These substances remain in the oil, and when wood is impregnated, they perfectly strengthen its upper layers. We take in equal proportions the roots of burdock, dandelion, elecampane, cinquefoil, meadowsweet, comfrey. The insisting process is exactly the same.

If you want to play with color a bit, you can try different edible vegetable oils. For example, pumpkin and sea ​​buckthorn oil gives a beautiful golden hue to a wood product.

How to oil a piece of wood

Linseed oil it is better to take fresh pressing and from trusted sellers, if the technology is not followed, flax oil can have a bitter taste and not a very pleasant smell.

The best solution is to heat the oil in a water bath. To do this, a container of oil is placed in a large pot of water and put on fire. It is not necessary to bring the oil to a boil, it is enough to heat it up to a temperature of 60-65 C. When heated, the density of the oil decreases, and it is much better absorbed into the wood.

We lower a wooden spoon into warm oil and wait until all oxygen bubbles gradually come out of the product. We take it out, wipe it with a dry cloth and lay it out to dry in the sun. sunlight accelerates oil polymerization. In linseed oil, this process occurs at a natural level, unlike vegetable oil, to which a desiccant is added. A spoon or spatula dried in this way acquires a very high water resistance, and will serve you for more than one year.

Impregnation with mastic

Before treating wooden utensils with mastic, make sure that the products are well dried. The mastic itself is obtained from a mixture of linseed oil and wax. The proportions here can be different, it all depends on what hardness of the mastic you need. For soft woods, a harder compound is needed (2 parts oil to 1 part wax), for hard woods a softer mastic (3 or 4 parts oil to 1 part wax).

Both ingredients are also cooked in a water bath until the wax is completely dissolved in the oil. After that, pour the composition into a glass container with a wide neck and let cool. The mastic is ready for use.

Before polishing with mastic, it is good to soak the wood product twice with oil. Do not forget to dry the spoon after each procedure. If the wood requires it, sand it with the finest sandpaper. After that, take a piece of felt and use it to rub your product with the prepared mastic.

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Maslovosk Anta Master - hard wax oil extra hard oil wax with a high content of natural beeswax. Designed as an environmental bioprotection, moisture protection and UV protection for wooden surfaces and products that may come into contact with food. At the heart of this modification of oil wax is Oil with hard wax or Mastika Mastic. Maslovovsk MASTER helps to protect wooden products, handicrafts and carved decorations made of wood - wooden utensils, barrels and tubs for making pickles and pickles, spoons, lining boards and trays, cutting boards for cooking, scoops and bratinas made of wood, wooden goblets for liquids, handicrafts for various purposes. Oil Wax Master can also be used to increase the effect of protection wooden furniture, walls, ceilings and floors in wooden house and baths.
Maslovosk Master recommended for use as a hard wax oil to protect any wood products that may come into contact with food, but which require ABSOLUTE ECO-FRIENDLY protective composition, complete safety and very RELIABLE AND LONG-TERM protection against mold, cracking and decay. Maslovosk Master can also be used to renew and STRENGTHEN the protective properties of their wood surfaces (furniture, etc.) that were previously treated with soft waxes such as Maslovosk Standard, Maslovosk Interior, Maslovosk Parquet Terrace, Maslovosk Bath Sauna.

DIFFERENCES Maslovosk Master

Maslovosk Master is an oil wax with a wide range of applications. Maslosk Master is produced on the basis of a standard primary modification of oil with hard wax - Maslosk Mastic and may contain large quantity specially selected PURE wood resins, bee products and components to increase the quality and degree of surface protection when used for its intended purpose.
Maslovosk Master is one of the most ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, HARMFUL, reliable and effective products in the line of wood protection impregnations based on beeswax with a base on hard waxes used to protect wood items and wooden furniture inside the house, improving its aesthetic appearance, prolonging the service life of products from wood.
The composition of Maslovok Master allows you to preserve the protective properties and process wooden products FOOD CONTACT or used for its preparation or in contact with food products.

APPLICATION Maslovosk Master
Maslovosk Master, Oil with hard waxfor wood products intended:

• for RENEWAL of the wax coating of surfaces previously treated with soft Maslovosk - Maslovosk Standard, Maslovosk Interior, Maslovosk Parquet Terrace, Maslovosk Bath Sauna,
• to improve the protective properties of conventional (soft) Maslovoskov,
• for hardwood,
• wooden crafts handmade or carved ornaments,
• handicrafts and carvings made of wood:
  • wooden utensils,
  • barrels and tubs for the preparation of pickles and pickles,
  • wooden spoons, scoops, ladles,
  • lining boards and trays,
  • cutting boards for cooking,
  • bowls, mugs and brothers made of wood,
  • wooden goblets for liquids,
  • handicrafts for various purposes.
• wooden furniture inside the house and bath,
• processing of wooden window sills, slopes, ebbs,
• to enhance the protection effect of wooden furniture, walls, ceilings and floors in a wooden house and sauna.
• re-applied to a regular oil wax to update the properties of the latter,
• improving the quality of previously treated surfaces,
• imparting moisture protection properties to wood,
• PREVENTS CRACKING of wooden surfaces of wood products by equalizing the density of wood over the entire surface, while leaving the wood vapor-permeable - "breathing",
• evenly distributes and regulates the release of excess moisture from the wood,
• contributing to the proper drying of wood, uniform moisture removal and vapor permeability,
• preservation of the original natural color of the tree. contains natural UV filter,
• giving an antistatic effect to the treated surface.

Maslovosk Master does not cause allergies and is indicated for use to protect wooden products in contact with food or foodstuffs. It can be used by people prone to allergies (except for those allergic to pine and fir resin - which is very rare).
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Wooden utensils have a long history. Before spoons and dishes were poured out of metal and plastic, our ancestors carved kitchen utensils from bars of fruit and forest trees: linden, birch, oak, cherry, plum, juniper.

Modern people, tired of "artificial life", began to return to the traditions and customs of the Russian people. Crockery and kitchen utensils from natural materials is gaining popularity, because holding a warm, “living” tree in your hands is much more pleasant than cold metal.

For such dishes to serve long life, it needs to be processed. This is especially true of carved spoons, which are used more often than other products. And here it is important to know how to process a wooden spoon for food so that it remains intact and your health does not suffer.

In our article, we will talk about recipes for processing wooden spoons with hot oil and how to prepare waxing mastic.

How to choose the right oil for processing and impregnation

There is no single correct answer to the question of how to soak a wooden spoon. Various craftsmen, by trial and error, derive individual recipes, and advise this or that oil. The main rule is that the oil must be edible.

Advantages of oiling kitchen utensils:

• Edible oil does not cause any harm to the body;
• It has good waterproofing properties, closing even the most microscopic cracks in wood;
• Does appearance products more attractive.

an example of carved wooden spoons from our catalog (covered with beeswax on the right)

by the most simple option can become refined sunflower oil which is sold in any grocery store. If you are a beginner and just trying yourself in this business - this option will be optimal. One of the most popular oils for processing wooden spoons is linseed. Even in the old days, all wooden utensils were impregnated with it. It is better to buy bleached flax oil, which is sold in art stores.

When the question arises of how to cover a wooden spoon so that it acquires a beautiful shade, the masters advise sea buckthorn or pumpkin. But in general, any edible oil is suitable for impregnating a wooden spoon: olive, hemp, sesame, coconut, walnut other.

How to cover and how to oil a wooden spoon for food

Impregnation - there are two basic way(often this process is called how to paint a wooden spoon, although it is not actually painted):

• Using only oil
• Using a composition of oil and beeswax (mastic)

In the first method, it is soaked in a bowl of oil, and set to bask in a water bath. It is better to keep the temperature within 80 degrees Celsius without letting the oil boil. Periodically turn the product over so that there are no “dry” places left, and the oiling goes on evenly. The first signs that the process has begun are air bubbles that appear on the surface of the wood. As soon as the air stops escaping, you can turn off the fire and let it cool naturally.

We take out the spoon, wrap it several times in a paper towel. When excess oil remains on the napkin, dry the product in the sun for 3-4 days. After that, you can safely use it. If necessary, the procedure repeat several times. Flaxseed oil is an excellent antiseptic. The wood impregnated with it will no longer crack, and will not be covered with mold or fungus.

Some craftsmen, in order to give the tree a pleasant smell, make tinctures from oil and medicinal herbs and roots. As such plants, you can use mint, dandelion, burdock, cinquefoil roots or elecampane. The plant is crushed, poured into a glass dish, poured with oil and infused for about two weeks, shaking daily. Then filter and store in a dark cool place. Tannins, which are contained in the roots of plants, endow the oil with increased protective properties, which wooden surfaces only for the benefit.

In the second method, melted beeswax. Depending on the initial proportions, either soft or hard mastic is obtained. soft rocks it is better to process wood with hard mastic, and hard rocks with softer ones.

How to varnish wooden spoons

If you plan to constantly use a wooden spoon for its intended purpose, then it is better to refrain from coating it with varnish. Over time, even the most expensive and high-quality varnish can crack due to temperature changes, and moisture in the wood leads to its decay. Oil treatment is considered the ideal way to preserve and protect wooden utensils from environmental influences.

There are many interesting articles on the Internet on processing with various mastics, pastes, etc., which give it interesting smells, colors and properties.

In this article, we will consider the simplest of them.

In the next season, we planned to begin to abandon turning utensils, replacing them with ceramic and wooden, hand-cut. But the events of a warrior field with an overturned table and broken ceramic bowls and mugs forced me to postpone making such a decision.

Well, back to our impregnations.

One of the simplest impregnations that protect wooden utensils from cracking is boiling them for 5 minutes in hot oil. It is a little better to take refined, in order to rid the dishes of the unnecessary sugary smell of oil. And if there is nothing terrible in this smell for a bowl and a spoon, then such smells are usually not desirable for a mug. The meaning is this. 2 liters of refined vegetable oil are taken, poured into a large saucepan, heated, the dishes are not placed in a warm one, brought to a boil and cooked for 5 minutes. In this case, the dishes must be turned over so that the oil soaks it from all sides. The dishes acquire a pleasant golden hue, appetizing smell, are not afraid of hot use, i.е. will not crack from hot soup or tea, well, it acquires a relative water-repellent ability. But in order to prevent excess oil from getting into food, it is necessary to first rid the dishes of these surpluses. To do this, wrap it in toilet paper and put it on the battery. This will absorb the excess oil into the paper. Then you need to repeat this process of getting rid of unnecessary residues 3-4 times with the replacement of paper.

In general, everything is quite simple. But I was not entirely satisfied this way. My bowl was still leaking a little in the core area and it annoyed me terribly.

I got a new bowl. And I rushed to experiment with other types of impregnations.
Most of all I liked combined method wax and oils.

Melt the beeswax, add a little vegetable oil(a couple of tablespoons), and with a new clean brush, we begin to apply it to the outer surface of the bowl, as well as to its bottom. In order for the wax to be better absorbed, you can preheat the surface with a hairdryer. We do this until the wax begins to show through from the back. After that, leave the bowl to dry, and put refined vegetable oil on the stove to warm up. After it has warmed up, turn the bowl over and begin to coat the inside of the bowl with a brush until the oil is no longer actively absorbed. All these operations are best done on a bed of napkins. And it’s better to cover everything around with newspapers from accidental splashes.

But here we now have wax smudges on the outside and excess oil on the inside. We remove them in the following way. Stuffed in a bowl toilet paper, we begin to warm up the outer side with a hairdryer, removing excess wax with an unnecessary rag. When heated, excess oil will be released from inside and soak into the paper.
That's how it is so))))))

Then we expose the dishes to the air, with a new portion of paper inside. Let it dry. The excess will soak into the paper.
In general, it is always better to store dishes in an open state. Do not put it in bags and cabinets, otherwise it may become moldy.

After the festival, after thoroughly washing and drying the dishes, put them on open space. will serve as an excellent decoration for your interior, and she will feel great.
It is also better to store ceramic dishes in an open form, otherwise you can get bad smell or mold in it.

Already long time wooden products are very popular in all spheres of human activity. Cooking is no exception. All kinds of cutting boards, trays, plates made of solid wood are valued for their environmental friendliness, practicality and, of course, beauty. AT modern world the trend to buy kitchen utensils from natural materials is gaining momentum. If you decide to purchasewooden utensils for home or restaurant, you need to know the basic rules for processing such items.

How to remove odor from a wooden cutting board

It's no secret that wood can absorb food odors such as onions, fish or spices. A few simple tricks will help eliminate them:

1. Wipe wooden product a slice of lemon or a gauze napkin moistened with lemon juice.
2. Sprinkle the dishes with coarse-grained salt, leaving it in this state for a while. The salt will absorb any unpleasant odors, after which it can be removed with a damp kitchen towel.
3. Treat a cutting board or plate with vinegar, then rinse with water and wipe dry.

Antimicrobial treatment of wooden boards

In our store you canbuy a massive oak cutting board, wooden salad bowls and trays, plates and breakfast tables that can decorate any kitchen. However, in any case, this dish will not go unnoticed by pathogenic microorganisms. Although they live on surfaces only until the product is completely dry, it is still necessary to carry out preventive measures to combat “pests”.

You can use the following methods:

1. Surface treatment of the product with warm ethyl alcohol or vodka.
2. Rubbing wooden utensils with infusion of cloves.
3. Rubbing the object with soda.
4. Treatment of boards, trays and plates with lemon juice.

After following one or more recommendations, the dishes must be rinsed running water and wipe with a dry towel.

Wood also tends to darken over time. To prevent this, oak cutting boards, wooden trays should be periodically rinsed with a decoction of onion peel, adding to it lemon juice. To get rid of berry stains, it is enough to wipe a bowl or salad bowl with hydrogen peroxide. It will also help restore the product to its original color.

Would you like to use in the kitchen environmentally friendly wooden utensils that do not emit harmful substances but worried about the difficulty of caring for her? Don't worry! It is enough to follow a few simple rules and your purchase will delight with its beauty for a long time to come.