Food Safe Stain For Butcher Block Countertops. Pure tung oil is a top choice for a food safe wood finish for butcher block counters. The finish that met all our needs was dark tung oil. They are stained, scratched and have lost their warm is it safe to treat and stain them?
I didn't think to photograph the process as it really was rather mundane!
I was concerned wood counters would be high maintenance and get stained easily. Using butcher block countertops in the kitchen is a bit of a forgotten art. Even if it's being marketed to. Also, oil based stains are not a good idea or paint, although the idea of painting a beautiful butcher block countertop would hide the woods, and probably not the fda publishes a document outling its rules on food safe counter tops and finishes. Here are the steps we use to treat our butcher block countertops: Since posting about our new butcher block countertops i have had several questions about what we used to seal them and are they food safe. Check out part 1 on lowe's youtube. A polyurethane finish for butcher block countertops offers a high shine to the expanse of work space and keeps it free from stains.
