MOM Tip: I usually just put my wood utensil’s in the dishwasher. I never thought about taking care of them any other way. But apparently you should.
Make your wood utensils sparkle by preparing your own wood butter at home with beeswax.
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces pure beeswax – measured dry. One package of the pellets that I purchased weighed 16 ounces and I used half a package at a time.
- 32 ounces of mineral oil – typically packaged with 16 liquid ounces per container so I used 2 containers.
Directions:
- Bring a large saucepan filled with water to a gentle boil.
- Place your beeswax inside a 2 quart glass measuring cup or a 1 quart glass jar; set the glass into the gently boiling water.
- Place the container(s) of mineral oil inside another medium saucepan filled with water and heat to low.The mineral oil just needs to be warmed to mix with the beeswax; no need for a rolling boil.
- Once all the wax has melted, turn off the stove and carefully add the warmed mineral oil to the beeswax;stirring with a spoon to combine.
- Using a towel around the handle of the measuring cup, carefully pour the liquid into each jar fit with the canning funnel;filling them almost to the top.
- Finish filling all jars and wait for to cool and firm up before using.
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