Mineral Oil

[China]

Some times "Neil" must feel like banging his head against the wall

[tonzeyd]

+1 with Stella Food Grade mineral oil.

Purchased a 5l bottle a few years ago, good stuff.

[ubeaut]

Some times "Neil" must feel like banging his head against the wall

Hehehe. I'm pretty thick skinned but I do have a stress reliever which I have posted below. Mine is printed on A3 card Jim Carroll has a similar one in his office I made some 12 years ago. The one below is a newer on and can be printed out if anyone wants one.

As for food safe finishes. Paraffin oil yes it one of the food safe products approved by US FDA (Food and Drug Administration). However not all paraffin oil is as safe for food products eg Baby Oil NUP! Raw paraffin oil NUP! Parrafin that has been brought in from overseas in IBC 1000lt containers and decanted into smaller containers, 200lt, 60lt, 25lt etc. may be contaminated during decanting. Paraffin Oil in PVC bottles.

We bring our paraffin oil in to Australia in 200 Lt Food grade drums and decant direct into PET bottles from those drums. The Paraffin we use is a heavy Medical / Pharmaceutical grade which is a little more expensive but is the best for Food Grade application. It is not diluted but full strength, there are no aromatics or vitamin E or anything else added. It will not impart taste or smell to food. It is non drying and will repel water. Supposedly the best of the best. Our red PET bottles help to protect the oil from UV rays which will make all Parafin go honey coloured over time if exposed to bright light.

Other food-safe oils and waxes may contain high aromatic oil additives, lemon oil, walnut or other oils, vitimine E, turpentine, vegetable oils, beeswax and goodness knows what else.

A few additives that bother me and should bother end users, are high aromatics including lemon oil (smell and taste transfer to food). Nut oils including walnut (common in recipes online) definitely not ideal for anyone with nut allergies and vegetable oils which can go rancid.

Anyway here's a link to info sheet for basic use of our Food Safe Plus.

Click on the below for full size to either copy or print.
Copy pic and in any publishing program it should be able to be enlarger to a full A3 size.
1 stress reliever.jpg

Cheers - Neil

PS Sorry for the blatant advertising and rant.

[BobL]

Reminds me of many moons ago when I went hiking/camping with my 4 (much younger) brothers in the Stirling ranges.
The first morning was cool and cloudy but I convinced them to hike up Bluff Knoll (its only 1000m and one of the few places it snows in WA every decade or so) and have breakfast on top.
As there was 5 of us we shared out the carrying of various foods (eggs, bacon, backed beans etc) and cooking gear.
For cooking we carried a small single burner LPG stove and a small Al pan, and my job back at where we were camping was to decant some of the large bottle of cooking into something smaller.
I couldn't find suitable empty container so I transferred the remnants of small bottle of shampoo into another container and rinsed out the bottle a couple of times and put the oil in that.

It was a cold wet hike and we arrived on top with insufficient clothing so with teeth chattering we set about cooking the breakfast.
On heating the oil there was a faint aroma of shampoo which only got worse when we added the bacon and eggs..
My brothers quickly worked out what was going on and blamed me for not rinsing out the bottle.
By the time the food was cooked the smell was acrid and the taste was awful, but we were so hungry we ate the food anyway.

Obviously the shampoo aroma had permeated the bottle and come straight back out when the oil was put in there.

[Fuzzie]

Well being the OP my takeaway from all this is,

1. The Pharmacist had never heard of "Mineral Oil" and it wasn't listed in his online database.
2. The girl, with the purple hair and ring in her nose, stocking the shelves said "Yeah, nar yeah, it's baby oil"
3. This confused me and I thank the contributors to this thread for further illumination.
4. Not all chemists are likely to still stock pharmaceutical "Liquid Paraffin".
4. I only needed a small amount for a small job.
5. A pharmaceutical grade 200ml bottle for $5.99 from the local Good Price Pharmacy was cost effective for me. No significant travel (it was only 100m from the closest Big Green Shed), no postage.
6. We haven't noticed any unexpected laxative side effects from using it on the kitchen item in question.
7. No fragrance imparted to dough made in said kitchen item.
7. No cranial or wall damage acquired during the process, possibly apart from the those imparted by the red wine drunk to accompany the pizza made using said dough.



Have a good one every one.

[powderpost]

Hi Fuzzie,

Might be better to have that nice red after you number your points in your posts????? Just a suggestion

Jim

[verawood]

Anyone can 4get.
7 is a lucky # 4 sum.

[Fuzzie]

Measure twice, cut three times?