What is with all the pushback on mixing. It's been done for years on the forum. Again I do things "My Way"
the "Boutique Oil" remark.
There's been pushback for quite a few years. The foundation for which is that we don't know the actual performance of the mixed products, while the individual constituents of said mix have been proven to pass the requirements for the approvals they carry on the bottle. The API requirement for oils to be miscible, as @Shannow stated years back, is that they don't split like mayonnaise. There's no other performance requirement beyond that, so there's no guarantee that performance will be as good as the individual products as tested, let alone an improvement.
Because you're on a forum that's about optimal oil choice, and you're spinning a roulette wheel with your oil on purpose by playing shadetree chemist instead of using a fully-formulated oil that would be more convenient to use in the first place.
Yes, I understand that Mr. Hermann.
And that's fine, people do plenty of things worse than mixing oils, but you posed the question: "What is it with all the pushback on mixing" to which I've provided the answer.
That’s what my grandmother said when I told her not to mix bleach and ammonia…..
The fact that you would make this comment clearly shows that you haven’t really been paying attention to the strong evidence in here that points towards the benefits of those boutique oils.
This is why I rarely debate oil. In my world oil is oil. Have said that many times here. I'm happy that you are having good results.
I actually don’t use any of the boutique oils at the moment, not saying that I won’t in the future. I do know that they have many benefits over off the shelf stuff. I used Amsoil back in the early 90s though. Was actually a “sales rep” back then although just to get the discount and I don’t recall ever selling it to anyone. The warehouse was near my work at that time so I would just grab my oil directly from there.
Because Mobil didn’t know what it was doing when it formulated either one of those oils, but poured together in ways that Mobil never tested, it’s now a magical elixir?
I bet that was the last time you ever had to correct her, wasn’t it!
She was born in 1897 and died in 1994. Guess I was wrong
I can’t take credit for the above oil brew but I believe this and maybe other brews posted here are worth a glance .
For any two oils someone thinks they have to mix together for optimal results in their application, there’s probably eight available oils that are correctly blended from the manufacturer that will deliver superior performance to the mixed ones.
Worth a glance as in when somebody tells you there's a Monte Carlo decked out in a McDonalds paint job, rolling on 44" rims and you take a peek, because it's worth a glance?
Please post a picture
