Process a wooden spoon for food. Maslovovsk Master. Oil with hard wax to protect wooden utensils and wood products. Care of wooden products

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 wooden utensils 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. Pour it into a glass bottle, add 0.5 l 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 oils give a beautiful golden hue to a wood product.

How to oil a piece of wood

It is better to take linseed oil freshly pressed 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 takes place on natural level, in contrast to vegetable, in 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 composition is needed (2 parts oil to 1 part wax), for hard rock 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.

Gaining popularity. This is largely because it is environmentally friendly and has many advantages: does not break, gives food a unique taste, keeps it warm for a long time, etc. This type dishes are also called cooperage.

wood for dishes

Many are interested in what kind of wood wooden utensils are made of. It should be noted that different types are suitable:

• for the manufacture of glasses, mugs, glasses, it is better to use ash, hornbeam, oak and linden;
• for barrels, linden and oak will be relevant;
• linden and aspen are suitable for spoons, and only the first type of wood for plates.

The most resistant to temperature effects are maple, cedar, bamboo, mountain ash and linden. However, in addition to technical and operational properties, it is necessary to take into account medicinal characteristics wood. For example, oak has a beneficial effect on teeth, rowan provides good blood circulation, and alder has soothing properties. It should be noted that daily contact with such cooperage utensils will give a positive result.

Coating and product processing

The weak point of wood is insufficient resistance to chemical and thermal influences. For this reason, wooden utensils must be treated and coated with protective materials.

Food wooden utensils are processed different ways. The simplest of them is wetting in hot oil (it can be linseed, vegetable). Another way is to combined use oils and waxes.

What is covered with wooden dishes? To do this, use a special food varnish, which protects the painted surface from the effects of substances present in food products.

This varnish has a number of properties:

• water resistance;
• durability;
• heat resistance;
• coating strength;
• resistance to infection by fungi and mold;
• cracking protection;
• fast drying and no specific odor;
• resistant to impact detergents and direct sunlight.

Thanks to this coating, the dishes last longer, because the varnish protects them from negative impact external environment.

Painting of cooper's utensils

The question of painting wooden utensils is ambiguous. As a rule, wood itself has beautiful color so in order to keep it natural look, for processing use transparent coatings, which include the above food varnish.

Care of wooden products

If your home has cooperage products, then you should adhere to certain rules storage and operation of wooden utensils:

1. It cannot be washed in dishwasher because there is a risk of damaging the surface.
2. Due to the susceptibility of wood to moisture, it is advisable to store dishes in dry places to prevent mold. Also be sure to dry and wipe the product after use.
3. To eliminate unpleasant odors and for disinfection, you can wipe with an alcohol solution.
4. As time passes, cooper's dishes darken. In order to restore its previous color, it is recommended to wipe the surface with hydrogen peroxide.

Adhering to these simple rules, you will extend the life of wooden utensils.

A simple thing to apply is sunflower oil, stain and varnish fall off immediately. For many, the question arises of warming or not warming, but still warming, although not up to high temperatures, due to oil burnout (bad burnt smell).

Soak a wooden spoon, keeping it in the aisles for twenty minutes, then dry it, then after each use and washing the dishes, it should be wiped with a napkin soaked in natural oil.

You can choose your own oil according to tastes and preferences, for example, sea buckthorn oil or some other. But you need to know that after sea buckthorn oil, although the dishes take on an amber appearance, the oil quickly discolors and the spoon takes on its former appearance.

I once covered a spoon twice and sent it to a friend from Moscow. But when he sent me a photo, I was very surprised the spoon went stained, and in some places there was no oil at all.

Linseed oil good remedy to cover wooden utensils. AT early times all wooden kitchen utensils soaked just like that.

It is better to use artistic bleached, you can buy it at any store artistic paints. Application:

1. Do water bath, (take a pot of water and place a smaller container of oil in it, and lower the object into the oil);
2. After the bath, wipe the accessory clean, gradually cooling;

Dry in the sun and here's why

They do this to accelerate polymerization (ultraviolet contributes to this process). Wood treated in this way is more resistant to moisture and mechanical stress.

In a similar way, you can soak with sea buckthorn and any other, everything depends on performance characteristics kitchen utensils.

And now why is it necessary - oil impregnation

The main goal of increasing the service life, the second is the exclusion of unpleasant odors due to the absorption of the wood surface of everything that gets into the dishes. The oil prevents the object from spilling and blocks the formation of odors.

There are many on the internet interesting articles processing with various mastics, pastes, etc., giving 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 most simple impregnations, protecting wooden utensils from cracking is its 5-minute boiling 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 completely satisfied with this method. 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 the combined way of wax and oil.

We melt beeswax, add some vegetable oil(a couple of tablespoons), and with a new clean brush we begin to apply it to outer surface bowls, as well as on 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. reverse side. 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, start warming up with a hairdryer outside, 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 in an open place. will serve excellent decoration your interior, and she herself will feel great.
Ceramic dishes are also best stored in 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 sorts of cutting boards, trays, plates made of solid wood are valued for their environmental friendliness, practicality and, of course, beauty. AT modern world tendency to buy kitchen utensils from natural materials 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 the wooden product with 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.