Can You Dye Wood with Food Coloring?

Can You Dye Wood with Food Coloring? Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Yes and it looks friggin awesome. Check out how I use food coloring to dye wood. This wood looks amazing after a burn and a brush and an application of food coloring? Who knew??

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[steelandtree]

I do the burn and stain the beam centerpiece candle holders I make. Found out one day when I was ready to do the finishing on some candle holders, I was out of polyurethane. Had some spray shellac and decided to use that. Best decision. The shellac really makes the colors stand out and pop, as they call it. It's all I use on them now.
Thanks for the video. Might try the food coloring.

[kevinfoley]

My wife does this process but instead of food coloring, she uses spray paint onto a paper towel and then wipes it on there. Turns out looking amazing.

[shadowliving]

When I do this I preheat the wood for a little while with a hair dryer. This opens the pores and allowed the coloring to better permeate the wood. Works great.

[ghastlygoober]

Love the out results from the dye but im confused on what you mixed the food coloring in with, I know you started out with the denatured alcohol and then the lacquer thinner in the plastic cup, but what was in the measuring cup did you water down the lacquer? or was it just water lol

[breathinglead]

I did this last year on a hickory handle. Use acetone instead of alcohol. Acetone has what it takes chemically to dissolve the ingredients in the food dye and get them to penetrate and mix into the natural oils in the wood.

[AlbredaWelde]

I have to wonder, since food dye is water based, won't these just fade and change color especially in sunlight? Or bleed out onto other surfaces if they get wet?

[Oonagh]

I would add pink to the red to make it redder. The yellow in the wood is creating the orange. Since the pink clearly has a bit of purple to neutralise the yellow then I think adding that to the red may balance it out. ’m not a color theory genius. I’ve been watching a ton of hair dying videos and am quite deep into color theory. Also this very thing happened to my hair.

[wenziz]

I’ve arrived here while looking for an alternative to ebonizing. The wood i’m working with just isn’t blackening, though maybe if i just burn it that will be enough without a black dye?

[TheGardenAndWormLady]

After I dye my spoon what do I coat it with to be able to use it for food?

[suzz]

I don't have money to buy some fancy torch. I do most woodworking by hand. I do have a map gas and a propane torch though with the basic sized nozel u get a the home depot. Can u use that or do I have to have a fancy nozel that produces a huge flame like u have??? Thxs

[somaerahk]

I want to dye maple butcher block, but I will be Turing on it so I had planned to use a food safe stain. Well with maple being hard to stain I hear dye is better.
So I want to use food coloring then tong oil over too.
Think I could use citrus solvent or orange oil to get the oil deeper in the wood?

[lisavento]

i want to paint a design but still wondering if i can paint and mix and blend smaller sections like fauna inside black lines..?

[karenramon]

How would the food coloring for stain last on raised garden beds?
Would linseed or tung oil help with sealing colored raised garden beds?

[RamsesReturns]

Does the color fade after awhile?
I made a beet stain which looked stunning, but a few days later, after the clear coat even, it seeped through and came out, losing its reddish color.

[jayshreve]

10:46 Since water was used to mix the food coloring, water-based polyurethane should be ok as a top coat right?

[TheLucidscreamz]

was thinking, why did you exclude black, is it because you burn stain blacks ?, would you do this on chopping board? by the way im only 6 months into wood working and kit, man i learn new stuff aka your tips on stains via burn, i need that device , coool tips thanks, could you use this on chopping boards with linseed oil and wax finish, or would that leach colour into adjoining wood ?

[bobbysweeney]

Wow those look sick! I just cased in a bulkhead and the vertical sides that go up the wall to it, using pallet boards that i removed the soft wood on and then just did a reverse burn where i onlh burned the depressed soft wood. Looks good but after seeing this, i wanna take it all down and do that! Lol

[SaltyDooDoo]

I have used blue and green food color mixed with denatured alcohol to dye my wood pieces for years. Always turns out different but always looks great.

[RubyStar-zd]

What can you seal it with? I did this and tried using Polly and it turned black basically. I had to redo it all, and was super sad. HELP😢

[johnvance]

I'm doing a bunch of- Shou Sugi Ban but I'm having an issue sometimes with the board of warping. Is there something I can do to keep it from happening