It sounds like the sous vide technique for mineral oil is intended to speed up surferguy's concept of a 24 hour soak. Sous vide for 24 hours though, I don't know if that would end up being a weird "issue" where there's so much oil in the wood that oil would just constantly keep seeping out of the wood later on like a damp sponge (if it indeed soaks up twice as much). The technique could work for scenarios where the wood is thick and harder for the oil to penetrate.
My piggyback question. The mineral oil/beeswax combo can be recommended regardless of situation for basically any wood board situation, right?
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Have you tried warming the board slightly? I do the mineral oil soak and wax as well. I did try putting it in the oven(just warmed slightly and turned off, I don't think it was over 40C) to see if the wax penetrated more. I think it's lasted longer, but no scientific testing done!
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I was wondering the same thing about heat. I don't know if it helps the mineral oil, but I could see a scenario where heat perhaps improves the wax coating.