"Bobby" wrote in message
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Is it OK to use vegetable (cooking) oil on hardwood furniture
instead of teak oil?



Vegetable oils will go rancid after a period and begin to smell.


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Left at room temperatures, opened bottles of cooking oils can begin
to rancid in anywhere from a week to a couple of months, though it
may take several more months to reach such a point of rancidity
that it can be smelled.

http://www.survival-center.com/foodfaq/ff10-fat.htm

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Teak oil is probably overdosed with high levels of antioxidants
to combat rancidity. Which makes it harmful to human health, if
consumed. In addition it possibly contains added UV barriers and
fungicides.

Whereas with cooking oil you just get smelly but waterproof garden
furniture. Which maybe goes sticky in hot weather.

It's a case of pay your money and take your choice.



michael adams

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