Grape seed oil

[Broad Arrow]

Hi. Anybody uses grape seed oil as a substitue for camellia oil? Does it work in prohibiting rust? Thanks.

 

[JNewell]

I used to do a lot of obsessive 18th century living history. We used olive oil for metal protection and lubrication (this was historically documented). It worked fine for both, so...I would guess you'd be fine. Just don't expect too much and remember to keep things coated.

 

[knarfeng]

I have no personal experience, but found this reference for you:

http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp

My obsessive searching for information on this led me to this page which compares many different oils for their different strengths and weaknesses. Of note is "Grape Seed Oil" where they make the following comment "One caution: it's a fast drying oil so you want to clean up splatter right away because cleaning will be a lot harder in a few days. On the other hand, this makes it very good for seasoning bare steel and cast iron cookware." - this is the only oil where they even mention cast iron.

So I tried grape seed oil for a couple of months. Everything started to get a gummy residue on it. I have switched back to bacon squeezins, palm oil and sunflower oil. I'm looking around for organic lard (since I'm not raising pigs right now).

 

[Broad Arrow]

I used to do a lot of obsessive 18th century living history. We used olive oil for metal protection and lubrication (this was historically documented). It worked fine for both, so...I would guess you'd be fine. Just don't expect too much and remember to keep things coated.

Where there unwanted residue after it dries? Will give it a try. Thanks

I have no personal experience, but found this reference for you:

http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp

Thanks for this info. So, grape seed oil is out.

 

[JNewell]

Where there unwanted residue after it dries? Will give it a try. Thanks

Thanks for this info. So, grape seed oil is out.

We generally used gear hard enough/often enough that we didn't find out the hard way, but I am pretty sure that even good olive oil, and probably any vegetable oil, will eventually get gummy, as noted in the quote:

So I tried grape seed oil for a couple of months. Everything started to get a gummy residue on it. I have switched back to bacon squeezins, palm oil and sunflower oil. I'm looking around for organic lard (since I'm not raising pigs right now).

You probably need either a petro-product or possibly something like mineral oil to avoid that. Virtually anything that films will inhibit rust to some degree, if kept on the metal surface, but performance varies a lot.

Question: why were you using camellia oil in the first place?