Food grade oil

[twilliams]

Yep mineral oil is just fine, I don’t use it to store my equipment, or any oil in that regard but I do use it on the plate to knife contact, and auger contact point to grinder at start up of grinding. I also use it on my seals for the smoker to keep them pliable and from sticking, as well as the foam sealing sections on the vacuum sealer

[PapaSop]

PaPaSmokes
I use a food grade silicon spray.

[processhead]

Tex_77 said in Food grade oil:

https://waltons.com/white-oil/

PaPaSmokes This^^^^

I use carbon steel knives and plates (resharpenable) and coat them with white food grade oil for storage in ziplock bags.
Since a lot of my processing equipment is vintage, and cast iron, I need to keep it oiled up while not in use or it will start to rust almost as soon as I get it washed and dried.

[bocephus]

PaPaSmokes That should work, just a light coating and package them together. I use the Walton’s white oil to store and to lube plates knives and grinder shaft on initial start up.

[WVTim]

PaPaSmokes I’ve used white oil for my equipment for maybe two years. My stuff has long periods of inactivity and I’ve had no problems yet

[cdavis]

PaPaSmokes I use Walton’s white oil. It works great.

[Denny O]

I use some of that food grade silicone spray that L*M sells I believe some here call it wd-40. I also roll up my plates and knives with something in between them to keep them from scaring each other in a bag.

[TexLaw]

That white oil works great. I keep it in a spray bottle to make it a little easier to apply a good amount (and then wipe all around with a paper towel).

Don’t use vegetable oil. It will gum up on you. That causes all sorts of problems, only the least of which is that it will be a mess.

[processhead]

TexLaw said in Food grade oil:

That white oil works great. I keep it in a spray bottle to make it a little easier to apply a good amount (and then wipe all around with a paper towel).

Don’t use vegetable oil. It will gum up on you. That causes all sorts of problems, only the least of which is that it will be a mess.

Exactly this.

[samspade]

I bought a used meat slicer that had been repeatedly oiled with vegetable oil. Gosh that was so hard to clean it looked like tree sap.