[KC Burke]

Sommers Canoe Base bump.

Twice lead high adventure and recently took the wife up to Moose Lake for a week and she loved it.

I have often thought of the animal/vegetable oil sanitation issue and thought about the idea of seasoning (or final coating after washing) with sterile mineral oil, like you use on butcher block. Has anyone tried that?

[OKSooner]

Olive oil or peanut oil are best. My one skillet has improved a great deal since I've been cooking in it some with olive oil, because of my wife's influence.

Never had a sanitation problem. The important thing is to NOT use salted oil/fat of any kind to condition a skillet.

[RonF]

Our Council's summer camps coat their DO's with mineral oil at the end of summer before they're stored away. When we come back 44 weeks later to use them again they're fine, and the oil seems to cause no problem.