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| Cleaning Your Cutting Board If you are cutting breads or dry items on your cutting boards, simply brush the crumbs off and put your cutting board away. To clean your board with water, simply run some warm water over your board and scrub board with a scrub brush. You can use a little dish washing detergent, just make sure you rinse well before you dry. To dry your board simply take a dry paper towel and dry the cutting board thoroughly. Once you have hand dried your cutting board, it is a good idea to let your board dry standing up against a wall where air can flow evenly around both sides of the board. This drying process will ensure that both sides are dried evenly which will help to keep the cutting board from warping. Oiling Your Cutting Boards There really is no set "rule" to how often you should oil your cutting boards. Some woods repel water more than others and thus you won't have to oil them as often. Newer cutting boards need oiling more frequently in the beginning where as aged boards have an oil build up in them and won't need to be oiled as often. When my customers purchase a new cutting board from me I tell them this little saying that helps when trying to figure out how often to oil their new cutting boards... "Once a day for a week, Once a week for a month, Once a month for a Lifetime". The general rule for brand new cutting boards is to make sure you oil your board approximately 7 times before you use it, hence the saying "Once a day for a week...". To oil your cutting boards, just use a few drops of food safe mineral oil (found at your local drug store) or butcher block oil (found at your local bed and bath supply shops) and rub it into your dried cutting board using your hands or a paper towel. Make sure to really coat the edges of the boards since these are the most prone to moisture. If you have access to beeswax, you can melt a little food safe beeswax into your mineral oil and rub this mixture on your cutting board as explained above. I use a wonderful product called Clapham's Beeswax Salad Bowl Finish. A little bit goes a long ways, so your oil mixture should last you quite a long time. Let the oil penetrate the wood cells for about 15 minutes and then wipe off any excess oil with a paper towel and buff to a nice shine. I keep a small bottle of food safe mineral oil under my kitchen sink so that it's easy to just throw a couple of drops on my boards now and then. NOTE: Please do not put your wood cutting boards in the dishwasher or soak in a sink full of water. Even though I use a strong waterproof glue...allowing moisture to get into the glue joint could cause the cutting board to split or warp. That is why it is important to oil your cutting boards often. After many years of use you will notice some small cracks form in your board. This is normal and does not mean the board is unusable, it's just means that it's aged, an aged board can tell many wonderful stories!!! You will notice that after a while your cutting board won't soak up much oil, that means that your cutting board has been saturated with the oil and that is exactly what you want. This will help to guarantee that your beautiful wood cutting board will last for many years. ENJOY!!! |
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