What varnish to use on kitchen worktop?

[eggchaser1987]

We have been decorating the kitchen this weekend and when sugar soaping the walls some of this went in the worktop and stripped the existing varnish off.

Can't stretch to new worktops at the moment, but these will come in time be it sooner or later.

Going to try and sand down the worktops and re-varnish them, but is there a particular varnish that we need to use and we will be preparing food on them?

Thanks all

[B17NNS]

Does sugar soap strip varnish?

I've used Danish Oil on oak plenty of times.

[PD1]

+1 for Danish Oil

[PD1]

+1 for Danish Oil

[singlecoil]

Oil is good for worktops, a lot easier than varnish too. OSMO Poly-X is better, easier, less smelly and more food safe than Danish oil.

[eggchaser1987]

Thanks for the advice all. The sugar soap looks like it has started to strip the varnish, or they are just cheap worktops and have stained with in a couple of minutes.

Thanks again all, big help

[Mave]

4 or 5 coats of danish oil has kept ours looking nice for a few years :-)