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Comment on What Makes Photos so Valuable? by Larry

Larry — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:52:35 +0000

I sure thought so. As I age, I find that our family pictures are of more and more value to me as well.

Comment on What Makes Photos so Valuable? by Life with Kaishon

Life with Kaishon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:48:53 +0000

That is a great letter, isn’t it? : )

Comment on What Makes Photos so Valuable? by Larry

Larry — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:41 +0000

Thanks for dropping in and leaving comments, Sandy!

Comment on Food Safe Wood for Cutting Boards by Larry

Larry — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:08 +0000

Hi Keith, thanks for stopping by.

The first place I’d look for definitive information on this is the Material Safety Data Sheet for the product itself. You can find an example here: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGResourceCenter.asp?sn=ms2&msdstyp=PROCBG&msdsprc=57

Water-based Varathane is Tripropylene Glycol Monometyl Ether. Just the sound of that makes me cringe when thinking about it having food contact. That said, most finishes are actually pretty safe once they are fully cured. The issue here is that I’d see a greatly increased risk for your intended use. First, you’ll be sliding it across a hard surface and that surface will be heated to about 500 degrees farenheit. That will lead to it chipping (or at least wearing) off, which presents the possibility of direct ingestion of the finish itself. Not an appealing idea.. Secondly, you’ll be heating it significantly by holding hot pizza on it, and that might tend to make it break down. Cursory research hasn’t provided any information on how hot it would have to get to break down, but I wouldn’t personally chance it.

If I were making a pizza peel, I’d leave it unfinished. If you want to pop the grain a little initially, you could use something benign like mineral oil. I would council against using too much however, because it is likely to smoke when heated and that could cause the user some concern.

Comment on Food Safe Wood for Cutting Boards by Keith Sherwin

Keith Sherwin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:21:50 +0000

Hi, I have a question about using water based Varathane as a protection on a 1/4″ Baltic Birch pizza peel. No cutting would be done on it & it would have hemp linen canvas covering the actual peel, so really no wet food contact. However, it might get used without the hemp linen in which case, there would be contact with 500 F or higher cooked pizza crust.
So do you think the Varathane would be worse than Mineral Oil?

Thanks,
Keith

Comment on Without a doubt the best photo I have seen today by sandy tallman

sandy tallman — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:42:17 +0000

I agree with you on the picture. I like to take pictures too, point and snap.. Would love to have the time and energy plus equipment to do something just a fraction as good as this. I could learn a lot from you on picture taking but as you know me I’m a busy person.. Enjoy this very much.

Comment on What Makes Photos so Valuable? by sandy tallman

sandy tallman — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:33:56 +0000

I just read the above post, this happens all the time for some reason or another. If you read my shared post I didn’t get some pictures of my family but I’m still alive but i missed a chance to get pictures of my family at that time in our lives. Thanks

Comment on Is Voting for Fox's X-Factor Contestants Rigged? by Andre' Ramseur

Andre' Ramseur — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:23:41 +0000

The teachers haven’t gone anywhwere, some students fail to learn!

Comment on To me at least, this is BIG news by Larry Eiss

Larry Eiss — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:21:45 +0000

Yes, it is, but I am still glad that Facebook has some limits within which they have to work now. They did go a little farther than most would consider appropriate. As a consequence, people gave up privacy even when they had no idea they were doing so. My own online policy is to be careful not to say something online that I wouldn't say in person or that I wouldn't want repeated and attributed to me. I like the changes Facebook has to make because they offer me a modicum of greater protection against others using general information about me in ways of which I am unaware.

Comment on To me at least, this is BIG news by Dmitri Ilyin

Dmitri Ilyin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:11:54 +0000

The moment you signed up with Facebook you said goodbye to your privacy. This is the first thing people should remember when they pour their content to everybody's view. So by the time they become concerned about privacy settings they already under the scrutiny of the entire world. Don't you thing it is just ridiculous to start complaining about privacy when you just gave up on it already?