I tried this method today—a tablespoon of mineral oil in about a half gallon of warm water—on about 60 near mint Paulson solid Starbursts.
All I can say is: It works.
I don’t know why it works, but it does. I’ll be retiring my Kiwi foam pads.
My one tip would be that a tablespoon was plenty. I think a teaspoon would have been enough.
Notes: I used a salad spinner to dunk the chips in a plastic tub, stirring in advance with a spoon and agitating them by hand for about 30-40 seconds.
It defies everythingI thought I knew about oil and water, and I don’t know exactly how the oil gets on the chips (whether via the surface, or by an agitated solution beneath). But the chips came out evenly oiled, at the right amount of oiliness.
I layed them out afterward on a soft canvas tarp cloth, flipping and spinning each side against the cloth, and dabbing off some beads of milky oil-water... While watching football this afternoon, I’ll probably give them each a light rub with a microfiber cloth.
All I can say is: It works.
I don’t know why it works, but it does. I’ll be retiring my Kiwi foam pads.
My one tip would be that a tablespoon was plenty. I think a teaspoon would have been enough.
Notes: I used a salad spinner to dunk the chips in a plastic tub, stirring in advance with a spoon and agitating them by hand for about 30-40 seconds.
It defies everythingI thought I knew about oil and water, and I don’t know exactly how the oil gets on the chips (whether via the surface, or by an agitated solution beneath). But the chips came out evenly oiled, at the right amount of oiliness.
I layed them out afterward on a soft canvas tarp cloth, flipping and spinning each side against the cloth, and dabbing off some beads of milky oil-water... While watching football this afternoon, I’ll probably give them each a light rub with a microfiber cloth.