Perhaps some sort of food-grade wax? Although then you've got to worry about hot foods...

My aunt got me a big wooden bowl in college and I was poor so I ate popcorn out of it. I noticed the popcorn tasted weird for quite some time. I finally put two and two together when the coating had all come off the bottom. The hot popcorn and oil had been removing the God knows what shiny finish and I had been eating it. :(

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teekert 2 years ago | parent | next [-]

We’ve all eaten teflon coating at some point in our lives.

	▲	justinator 2 years ago \| parent [-]
		Some of us, on purpose!

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asquabventured 2 years ago | parent | prev [-]

Hopefully just food grade mineral oil and beeswax if it was a wooden bowl.

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Mistletoe 2 years ago | parent | next [-]

It was one of those you might get at Pier 1 or Kohl’s back then and had a really plasticky coating. Not my best moment.

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kaikai 2 years ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately mineral oil is derived from petroleum. I don’t care if someone says it’s food grade, I wouldn’t want to eat it.

	▲	zdragnar 2 years ago \| parent [-]
		Paraffin wax (chocolate), polyethylene glycol (toothpaste), vanillin (vanilla flavoring), benzaldehyde (almond flavoring), and the plastic coating on medicine pills are all derived from petroleum. You've likely been eating or using food grade petroleum products your whole life.