oil epoxy or something else in wet areas and food safe

[LizzyM]

New house and Im on my fourth kitchen renovation. I have used epoxy on various types of surfaces, including one kitchen. It's hard to go past that glass finish. This time I am having jarrah machined for me and the recommendation was to oil the benches. There will be a great deal of lighting to show off the wood (and my mistakes).
Would oil be the better option, do I stick with epoxy or are the other ideas out there?

[havabeer69]

I didn't think epoxy was food safe (most oil finishes probably aren't either). oiling is ok because you can always sand and re-oil. Epoxy if you chip, burn, scratch the top its going to be ALOT harder to fix and blend in.


I would probably do a bit of a google for food safe polyurethane and just be diligent about not treating it too roughly, especially warm/hot items.






side note:
after having a wood bench in a rental and as a temporary one in our kitchen its cured me of ever wanting it as our final product. It's a lot more work then an engineered stone product, granted it cant look very nice though.

[China]

"Rustins Plastic Coating", for your information pretty much any finish is food safe these days once cured.

[jack620]

Does a bench-top need to be foodsafe?