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How do you oil your cutting board?
Orca
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How do you oil your cutting board? 95 votes
In even coats, letting the oil soak in for at least 3 hours between coats, and wiping off the excess
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Just dump a bunch of oil on, smear it around, and wipe the excess off a day or two later
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You're supposed to oil your cutting board?
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I'm a degenerate that uses a glass or plastic cutting board
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I dunk the cutting board in a bathtub of oil because I'm in the pocket of Big Mineral Oil
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But it goes rancid???
Do I have to read 1000 pages of esoteric wood lore and wind up in some 1920s Home Goods magazine or what
This $10 souvenir is gonna financially ruin us!
Does this apply to plastic cutting boards
Accoeding to Serious Eats plastic cutting boards are rife with death viruses and MRSA, impossible to clean with a sponge
plastic i think is suboptimal but fine, i use plastic when i cut meat because i dont want to be troubled by the idea of animal juice seeping into the wood grain
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Just hit it with a dash of vodka youve got on the counter
Like.colloidal silver
or underpants with platinum thread
Wood is reserved for Charcuterie boards, unless this is where I learn I'm supposed to oil those too.
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2 oz beeswax
8 oz mineral oil
Fill a small sauce pan half full with water. Put the shaved/broken beeswax into a mason jar, add the oil, then set this in the water. Bring the water to a boil. When the wax is melted and looks like olive oil, I like to transfer it to a short wide mouth mason jar rather than keeping it in the deep jar. Apply with cut up worn out white undershirts or worn out socks. When it dries to a haze rub it with the cloth until the friction makes it shine.
For non cutting board waxes, you can make a harder wax with mixing in some carnuba or paraffin wax and mix in some pigments to make colors to touch up your car or add contrasting pigment colors to wood with open pores like ash or oak.
Similarly I make my own leather lotion for the furniture:
1 1/2 oz beeswax
2 1/2 oz tallow
2 1/2 oz neatsfoot oil
From there I have also gone off the deep end and made my own paint out of milk and cottage cheese and so on... but its fun!
So I just... chop stuff on it
It's all veggies anyway
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
Right up your ass!
Gottem
Are thick plastic cutting boards actually a safety concern?
It's a pretty thick paste that you rub an applicator pad in and then coat the board with until you're satisfied with the sheen / wipe off excess with a paper towel.
We've also got a couple of the plastic ones that see a bit more use because they can go in the dishwasher so they get used for any raw meat.
Ok but you can put a plastic cutting board through the dishwasher and I'm not sure that any bacteria or virus is capable of surviving going through a dishwasher
I kinda think Serious Eats might be talking our their ass on this one
I cut bread sometimes. I just put it on top of the bag that it came in.
We all do this.
You are just brave enough to admit it.
the microplastic concern is legitimate but like... just dont saw on your stuff with a dull serrated knife and you're *probably* fine.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other