Of wooden cooking utensils

[Far Rider]

So anyway, someone here has a aversion to using (touching) things made of wood.

Ice cream bar sticks, wooden spoons, etc.
I had purchased two spatulas and one spoon, made of olive wood when we still lived close to a Trader Joe's, yet the went unused. I had even fine sanded them smoother and treated them with olive oil and later with "food grade" mineral oil.
Now out of somewhere the wood avoider read an article about some plastic cooking utensils, that use recycled plastics, containing fire retardant, never mind the chance of shedding micro plastics. Ours are at least 15 years old that we purchased when they opened the Ikea store in West Sacatomatoes.

This morning was treating them with some more mineral oil, because they were looking a bit dry after some washings. Got to thinking and wondering if in great grandparents day if they didn't "treat" the wood with some readily available bacon grease.

Currently have some teak ones on order from Tilly, but you will get inundated with emails from them after ordering, even if you uncheck the box to opt out of receiving emails from about ongoing deals. Wheee...

[ScabbyDoo]

Was a Division Mgr. for IKEA U.S. East in a past life. They are a self stated 'very consciences' eco sensitive company. That didn't mean all their items were/are of the highest/safest/most eco-friendly quality.

[Far Rider]

Was a Division Mgr. for IKEA U.S. East in a past life. They are a self stated 'very consciences' eco sensitive company. That didn't mean all their items were/are of the highest/safest/most eco-friendly quality.

Yes I knew that about Ikea, but someone read about the "flame retardant" thing on some internet story recently and it must have been a very dramatic story. The (random) stories just pop up every day in her google news feed. Never heard anything about micro plastics.

Now about the dead bee in my locally produced honey from Worland Bryant honey . . . Is that anything like a worm in tequila?

[ScabbyDoo]

Reminds me of the dead bee in my tomato juice! Was drinking a glass of tomato juice from one of the tall cans we had and all of a sudden felt something lumpy in my mouth. Spit it out and it was a dead bee. Swore I would never drink tomato juice again. And, I didn't.........................................................................for about 20 years.

Fast forward: Some 20 yrs later I was offered some tomato juice at a friend's and decided it was safe by now and, you guessed it................................

Never had tomato juice again!!!!!

[Margarita]

I majored in agriculture in college. Students were required to choose six of eight core courses. I chose food science over welding because I figured I'd probably burn my fingers off if I tried to play with hot stuff. Food science turned out to be a great class. Every Friday, the professor would provide some treat from the college ranch: cheese, grapes, ice cream.

USDA regulations on food were part of the syllabus, and included things like the legal amount of spoilage in fish and legal amounts of insect parts and rodent hairs and excrement in canned food. Fifty years later, I still cannot eat canned tuna. I will spare you the details.