How to Make Board Butter | Fast, Easy and Cheap

I'm sure a lot of us have a cutting board in our home that looks a little worse for ware and all it might need is a bit of love. I'm going to show you my recipe for board butter. If you're unfamiliar with what board butter is, basically it's a food safe coating that's going to not only help protect your cutting board from moisture, but, it will also help the overall look of your cutting board. This is also something you can use on serving boards and charcuterie boards.

This is a easy and low cost way to help protect and rejuvenate your cutting boards at home.

Most of what you need you probably already have in your kitchen.

1. Food safe mineral oil
2. Natural bees wax
3. Measuring cup
4. Mixing bowl
5. Kitchen knife (if your bees wax isn't in pellet form)
6. Cutting board
7. Slow cooker (crock pot)
8. Container to hold your board butter

The first thing I want to do is to break up my bees wax, this is going to help it melt and combine better with the mineral oil. If you can buy your bees wax in pellet form you can go ahead and ignore this step.

I'm cutting up 2oz of bees wax for this recipe. Since this is a 4 to 1 mix ratio we will be adding 8oz of mineral oil to the wax.

Next we just put all the bees wax into a mixing bowl and add the food safe mineral oil.

Since the mix ration is 4 parts mineral oil to 1 part bees wax we will be adding 8oz of the mineral oil to the bees wax. The amount of bees wax and mineral oil will vary depending on how much board butter you want make.

In a slow cooker filled about half way with water I'm just going to float the mixing bowl and allow the bees wax to melt into the mineral oil. This took about an hour.

Once everything is melted together just pour it into a container and let it cool. Now you got what you need to help protect and restore your cutting board. And to do that just but a little bit of your board butter onto a clean cloth and rub in into your board. Simple as that!

This is also a good item to sell or give away as a gift if you're running something like and etsy shop.