Make Your Own Board Butter
OK, so you’ve had your Choppa Block for a while and you’ve run out of the supplied restoration wax, but you don’t want to buy another Care Kit…
The good news is that you can make your own Board Butter!
We don’t mind – we just want what’s best for your board.
Ingredients
- Kitchen scale
- 150 grams of 100% beeswax (sheets melt faster)
- 400 grams of mineral oil
- Glass bowl or a sauce pan to heat the oil and mix in the beeswax
- Jar for storage of oil-wax mixture
- Oven glove
- Stick or spatula to mix
- Heat source
- Thermometer (optional but helpful)
Method
- Measure Ingredients
Measure 400 grams of mineral oil and 150 grams of beeswax. If you don’t have a scale you can measure by ratio: beeswax 1.5 and mineral oil 4.0 (1 to 4 also works) - Heat the Oil and Add the Beeswax
Don’t heat the oil too much, you can cause a fire hazard (wax and oil are easily flammable). Never leave it unattended when heating! Put the oil into the pan and heat it to 81°C (177°F). Mix in the beeswax and stir until the wax is not visible (it melts). When melted take it off the heat source. - Put It in Container and Mix Until Cools
Put it in container for storage and mix it until gets waxy-like consistency. This step above is VERY important as if you don’t mix the wax and oil will separate during the cooling. - Application
Use Clean cotton rag (old T-shirt) and little amount of your oil-wax mix. Apply it on in very thin coat onto desired surface, leave it sit for 15-30 minutes and then wipe off the excess (buff it).
Care Products
Don’t have time or the inclination to make the Board Butter? Here’s some we’ve prepared earlier with our Care Kits
