DRY Food Safe Knife Lubricant / Rust Prevention

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So I am looking to protect my knife collection in a way that is food safe. It also must be DRY - I have plenty of oily wet substances available to me, but I really hate oil as it attracts dirt often enough while i heavy use in dusty sandy environments, and it gets all over your hands and stuff often enough, as well as in food, and mineral oil does not do as good of a protection job as other things.
What are my options for a lubricant and/or protector that is

  • Dry
  • Food Safe
  • Possibly long lasting
  • Rust preventing/Corrosion Inhibiting
  • Possibly temperature indifferent, but not a must
  • Hopefully does not smell awful as hell
  • Does not require me to take a loan out on my house to buy it

Right now I am looking at tuf-glide and Frog Lube to protect my main collection that is stored away (Tuf-glide just for the corrosion inhibition on the blade, it is not that great of a lubricant in my experience) - I really don't like anything wet though, and I need it to be food safe (which frog lube happens to be)

Any advice or am I out of luck?
 
You can get food-safe silicone sprays (CRC, Weston, Kel). They spray on wet of course but the propellants dry to just leave behind the silicone coating film.
 
All my knives actually - Long term storage and main use.. Mainly to cover the blade with so if I pull them out to use them, no oily residue all over, no need to clean if I need to "run and gun" as they say, I can just grab it, use it, and it will be food safe in any survival, dressing, harvesting, mushroom hunting, or kitchen situation, etc.. etc...

But also for the pivots and mating surfaces of moving parts. I'm trying to find that lubricant that meets all of those standards for my collection

I like dry lubes for that lack of oil that collects dirt/dust, and gets on your hands possibly, as well as in the surface your blade meets.
I like food safe lubes for obvious reasons.

I'm trying to find as many examples of this as possible, so I can find what works for me.

I have a lot of lubricants available to me already, but not really too many that I own are food safe, and those that are dry are like - Moly, Graphite, Tuf-Glide, etc....
 
Ballistol makes a few different products,all excellent, that might suit/fit your needs. Ballistol.com
 
I'm interested in this as well. Some Google-fu turned up these products, though I have not used them:

http://www.belray.com/no-tox®-food-grade-dry-ptfe-spray
http://www.sprayon.com/product-cate...od-grade-dry-silicone-lubricant-aerosol-lu211
http://www.lpslabs.com/product-details/566
https://www.rocol.com/products/foodgrade-dry-ptfe-spray-lubricant
http://www.crc.co.nz/Food-Grade-Dry-Lube/6895-652ae67c-6899-42bf-beea-7c30ed90a42b/

Whether these are truly food safe should probably be carefully analyzed, as there seems to be several different federal ratings that apply to the words "food grade".
 
Renaissance Wax might be worth considering. I've never used it myself, but I've read good things about it.

Brian.
 
jfk1110 said:
Ballistol makes a few different products,all excellent, that might suit/fit your needs. Ballistol.com
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Hey I'm a huge fan of BALLISTOL but I thought that Ballistol was a petroleum distillate? From what I've been told you don't want any petro products on food period. Or Does BALLISTOL have food-safe products that I don't know about?
 
According to the Ballistol MSDS it's pretty harmless. http://www.ballistol.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MSDS_TECH_BIO.pdf. Looks like USP-grade mineral oil, which is in fact a petroleum distillate, is a component. However, they are using the medicinal grade stuff (same as all "food-safe" mineral oils) so that wouldn't be the worry. Due to the content of several types of alcohols I wouldn't want to drink the stuff, but I am sure that the small trace amounts that might be left on a knife used for food prep would be of no concern.
 
Yeah but that's not exactly dry :P

Is Ren Wax even food safe? I really would like to know because I have a lot of that stuff I just don't use it as much because of how often you have to use it if your doing hard use stuff vs corrosion on carbon steel knives, and the fact that I have no idea of it being food safe or not.

I do know that these dry food safe silicones look like my best bet, and for those of you who are wondering about this your selves, like how well it works and the cost to value ratio is like, I will be posting on it when my lubes come in the mail.
 
Tuffglide is safe (found this out after my 2 year old got into mine. ) it's not the best rust inhibitor and if unpleasant smells are something your sensitive to tuff glide may bother you.

I have froglube. Haven't used it enough to recommend it but I will say this . It's non toxic ,it smells good and it seems to be a good lube .

Personally a patina is the best protection IMHO. I've got blades I tried to keep from patina or rust here in the south finally I gave it up.

I'm not a fan of patinas but I'm not a fan of constant maintenance of my blades to keep corrosion off either IMHO nothing you can buy protects a blade better than a natural patina.
 
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