Cerakote Food Safety?

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My wife preordered the GPknives exclusive mini-Grip as a birthday present to me, with an M4 blade with Cerakote coating. I'm not familiar with Cerakote personally and I was wondering if it's safe to use with food preparation, since . I googled a bit, but I received conflicting reports.

(P.S., If this is in the wrong forum, my apologies)
 
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This is an interesting question. Once, ages ago, I used a coated Emerson (I'm not sure how Emerson's coating compares to Cerakote) to open a can, and I ended up with black stuff sitting on the top of whatever soup/stew was in the can. Anyway, I scooped that off and tossed it, but it kinda soured me to some kinds of blade coatings. I don't think this would've happened with DLC or TiNi...
 
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If you don't get a conclusive answer on this forum you might consider contacting Benchmade directly. (Sorry to be Captain Obvious)
 
cerakote is an extremely tough coating used on firearms. Unless it is improperly coated from benchmade (which has happened before) then it shouldn't really be an issue around food. But, this is only my speculation and an answer from benchmade would be the better choice to go by
 
So, after an email to benchmade inquiring along these lines, this was their response:

"Cerakote is a black powder coating. We do not and have not used the coating on any of our kitchen knife sets but I cannot say that the coating is dangerous or any precautions should be taken if using for food preparation. "

Not exactly confidence inspiring. I'll have to do more searches and look closer at Cerakote itself before I can really be sure, I suppose.
 
I just got off the phone with Benchmade and they told me that black cerakote coating is food safe and that they use it on their Chef's knives. My knife is a Benchmade Presidio ii 570 BK–1801, first sold in 2018.

Anyone find anything else on cerakote food safety?
 
In ooked into it a while back and found it is considered food safe but younshouldnt eat too much of it
 
Here's cerakote's own published SDS information.

Tech Data Sheets, Guides & Other Resources | Cerakote Documents

Download the Cerakote Tech Data Sheets, SDS Sheets, Application Guides and other documents. Use these for application-specific instructions like cure times, cure schedules, temperatures and more.
www.cerakote.com www.cerakote.com

Guess what? Cerakote is carcinogenic! Especially the Carbon Black formulation! That means it can cause cancer, although probably more if it's inhaled while in liquid form/or mist state.

I wouldn't worry if using a cerakoated knife to slice summer sausage during an outdoors session, but I think I'd stay away from using the knife to open cans or for home kitchen use. But that's just me.
 
I think of it like Teflon.

They use it on pans, they say it’s food safe, some people say it’s killing us.

Same thing with aluminum pans and foil.

Who do you believe? Which study do you believe? Everything is killing us.
 
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I think of it like Teflon.

They use it on pans, they say it’s food safe, some people say it’s killing us.

Same thing with aluminum pans and foil.

Who do you believe? Which study do you believe? Everything is killing us.
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I assume you don't know what Safety Data Sheets are.
 
Dude, we used to drink water from a hot water hose in deep south Texas. As a kid I ate sandwiches with my hands covered in motor oil, paint or dirt. Or sometimes a combination of the three. If you have received the Covid vaccine and boosters you have injected yourself with something experimental.

You're worried about some hard paint while slicing your burger in half?

All said for jest, please don't ban me, mods. I love this site. Hahahaha
 
Contact Cerakote and ask if they have FDA approval for direct food contact, indirect food contact and/or incidental food contact.

If Benchmade says it's used on one of their lines, then Cerakote will have the necessary FDA approval on file.

Back when I sold paints and coatings to the food industry, we had to have FDA approval on the products we sold for things like kitchens, cold storage lockers, racks - really anything used in the food industry that might come in contact with food or did come in contact with food.
 
Contact Cerakote and ask if they have FDA approval for direct food contact, indirect food contact and/or incidental food contact.

If Benchmade says it's used on one of their lines, then Cerakote will have the necessary FDA approval on file.

Back when I sold paints and coatings to the food industry, we had to have FDA approval on the products we sold for things like kitchens, cold storage lockers, racks - really anything used in the food industry that might come in contact with food or did come in contact with food.
 
nice to know cera is presumed to be food safe
but perhaps some show of moderation
might slow down any after effects.
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