Groceries

with fragrance

Foods that have a strong smell, such as garlic or onions, can leave their smell on your wooden board for a long time. As a first aid measure, you can run cold (!) water over the wooden board immediately after use. This will absorb most of the smell immediately, but it will not remove it completely.

Discoloration

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Strongly coloured foods such as carrots or beetroot can leave unsightly discolouration on your wooden board. You can remove most of the colour immediately after cutting by holding the board under hot water. However, there is often not enough time for this and discolouration still remains.

Tips

for use

You cannot prevent the discoloration and the absorption of odors. However, you can think about assigning your wooden cutting boards to the different types of food and, for example, own board for Onions, garlic and strongly colouring foods to avoid “coloring” all your boards. In any case you should For hygienic reasons, a separate board for fish and meat to avoid any possible transfer of germs. Brush your cutting board regularly with oil to prevent the smell and discoloration from penetrating deeply into the wood.

Salt and lemon

The perfect couple

First, you should clean your wooden board as usual. Then sprinkle your wooden board completely with salt and rub it carefully with half a lemon and leave it to work for a few minutes. Now you can rinse your board carefully and leave it to dry completely as usual. Important: Since the pores of your wooden board have been roughened and opened by this treatment, you should oil and rub your favorite piece again after this intensive cleaning.

Baking soda and vinegar

The germ killers

For this treatment, rub your board thoroughly with commercially available vinegar. Then sprinkle 1/2 tablespoon of baking soda over it and leave it to work for about 10 minutes. Then you can rinse your board thoroughly with clean water and leave it upright to dry. As a quicker option, you can also just rub your board with vinegar and rinse it, which also has a disinfecting effect. You should also oil your wooden board after these processes so that the pores close again.

Grind

 Shortening the wood fibers and preparing for care 

We have already in this article explains in detail how you can properly care for your wooden products. Here we summarize the most important things again so that you know how to largely reduce discoloration or odor in the wood Since these are natural products and wood is always alive, these processes can unfortunately never be completely ruled out.

If you sand your wooden board at regular intervals (we recommend a 180 grit sandpaper), you will shorten the wood fibres that have stood up due to moisture. These will lie down again and are no longer as absorbent to moisture, germs, discoloration and odors.

Oil

 The nourishing finish 

By oiling as the next step, you seal the wood structure additionally and prevent so excessive Penetration of any environmental influencesPlease make sure to give the oil time to penetrate deep into the wood.