How to care for a wood cutting board | C is for Cutting Board Care
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The different types of wood cutting boards and how to care for them.
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Steve is so meticulous when giving information. Informative, guiding and correct. And also honest. Instead of repeating what other say about vegetable oils, he informs and gives no opinion. I wish more youtubers and presidents were this true to facts.
eaglecot: i gave you a thumbs up + this 1
+eaglecot Well thank you!
Yeah, I agree, like the president that we had for the last 8 years (transparency???, yeah right). Since "you" brought it up, people, including me, have the right to their opinion as well, not just yours;)
Firstly "we" didn't have anything, since I'm in Sweden. Second, I just
wanted to explain my gratitude. There are too many that give opinions
based on hear say. I would absolutely be interested in Steves opinion
about vegetable oil, no matter if for or against- I just don't want him
to make one up. Therefore I see him as a great model for other video creators to follow.
Then Firstly, you should say that you live in Sweden.
Secondly, "we" did, that doesn't mean you.
Thirdly, are you kidding? Based on the recent Election and you mentioning the word "presidents", 99.99999% of people reading your comment would surely believe it to be about our last election. Way to be vague on purpose.
Lastly, drop it already.
Great stuff Steve. So glad to hear somebody get it exactly right, in particular, not to use cooking oils. It's worth noting that distilled white vinegar is the best choice, which is also an excellent all-around household cleaner when diluted.
TIP: Buy laxative mineral oil in the over-the-counter medicine section of the grocery store. It's 100% pure food grade mineral oil (no fragrances, additives, or anything else), and it's dirt cheap. I picked up 16oz for $1.99.
Hello, my name is Enio. I'm from Brazil and I'm coming to congratulate you for your inspiring work. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us. I wish you more and more success.
5 seconds in and...wait where the "microjig maker of the gripper"?
"...Work safer. Work Smarter."
Perhaps he lost the scrip writer for the videos
Richard Patterson yes where I'd wondered about that
I have had my end grain chopping board now for 30 years and every few years I take it out to the workshop and give it a good sanding and have used tongue oil on it but I have also used olive oil without any problems simply because I use it a lot and as such it's washed a lot never had a problem with onion smells 😹 but then I use onions fresh out of the ground so they are sweeter in flavour and not as strong as onions that have been hung out to dry.
Loved the tip of the baking soda and vinegar as this would be a good way of giving the board a good monthly cleanup as the vinegar reacts with the baking soda and makes it go all fizzy 😹😹😹 used that trick on so many other things that have needed cleaning but never thought of using it on the chopping board before 🤔
I have since inherited Mum's chopping board and that's almost 50-60 years old and is still as good today but well worn in the middle which I have kept for carving meat as the natural curve in the center of the chopping board acts a gravy boat in a way so the juices of the meat don't run off the edge of the board 😹😹😹 I am able to pour them off back into the pan once I have finished carving the meat 🙃
Thanks for the great tips of the mineral oil will have to look at buying that rather than using the olive oil which I have not had a problem with really 🤗
I use all different types of oils and food on mine. It's stationary so I keep a spray bottle of white vinegar hanging on the station. Using the vinegar to clean it every time works awesome. No smells from any food that was on it whether it was olive oil, vegetables, or meat. Just get in the habit of cleaning it correctly every time you use it and you'll never have to worry about odors or bacteria
To avoid that, use a 50/50 mix of salad bowl finish and mineral spirits to get the board to soak in the grain. Then finish it with some mineral oil and there will be no ability for water to get into the wood. Helps to keep the board nice for a long time. Great video Steve!
Thanks for the video, always helpful and easy to understand from you. Also, I have seen a lot of board makers use a Beeswax mix topcoat to preserve their board as well, a miniature crock-pot serves nicely to heat up the wax to apply it!
A chefs trick for cleaning a chopping/cutting board after use, is to use salt and half a lemon to clean and rub in.
+Ric Coulson Cool! I'll try that!
Lemon juice is also great for getting onion or garlic smell off your hands. So I try to incorporate some lemon into recipes that use a lot of alliums so I can just drip a couple of drops on my hands and rub them before washing. Seems to help immensely.
Mad props on your T-shirt game. Strong showing sir!
I have always heard "use mineral oil this and mineral oil that", but in my country when I search for mineral oil the only thing I found is motor oil.
you are the first one to say that baby oil is mineral oil, now I know how to search for it.
THANKS!
Mineral oil is also called white oil or paraffin oil in some places. In a lot of primarily spanish speaking countries, the term mineral oil would indeed refer to standard (non-synthetic) motor oil. Try looking in a drug store with the laxatives.
Benjamin Shaw Thanks! I live in Argentina, so its a spanish speaking country
The Witch shirt! 👌
Awesome stuff, at first I didn't see much to this video , but then he was so informative I actually didn't know half of what he mentioned when it comes to cutting boards👍🏻
So that's why I keep seeing end grain cutting boards! Finally understand why they're awesome :D
just bought my first end grain cutting board, transitioning from plastic. very helpful to know what to do in the future.
Great video answered all of my questions🎯😁
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I've had success using extra virgin olive oil on commercially made wood/bamboo cutting boards. I even finished a table I made with olive oil and DEFT clear wood finish
Hi there from Portugal,
Nice Tips :D
Obrigado(Thanks)
Steve, i love your videos, you are the best!
I have a doubt, though: isn't mineral oil bad for food? I've heard a lot of people on youtube saying that you shouldn't finish a surface that goes in contact with food with this kind of oil...
Thanks, bye bye!
There is food grade mineral oil and industrial grade. You can even get mineral oil at pharmacies, because it gets used in drugs.
Thanks for great ideas and tips. Wish you a nice week. Best wishes from Norway
There's a guy in our local grocery store who makes wooden cutting boards as a side business. We shoot the breeze about woodworking and tools, when I stop in and buy groceries. He explained to me how he goes to craft fairs and sells his cutting boards. I asked him if making the cutting boards and selling them at the craft fairs pays for itself. He said he made $12,000 last year selling cutting boards. He''s actually in the process of building himself a self-contained woodshop. There's money in cutting boards.
My Dad used to use hot olive oil his chopping block but he did it regularly and scraped it with a card scraper.
I tend to oil my oak made board when the scratches from the knife are visible by getting white.
I use mineral oil, it's hard to get odorless oil not specific for cutingboards here, but I get a cuttingboard oil at that swedish furniture supplier for 4 Euro per 500 ml. And thats lasts a long time.
Usually once a year I go over the board with a scraper to level out the scratches and apply a mineral oil - beeswax mixture (as recommened by MTM-Wood).
Just warming up some mineral oil and adding beeswax (4 parts oil and 1 part wax).
Having the board treated with that oil-wax mixture makes it hard to sand, the sandpaper clogs very fast, so I tried scraping and have good success with it.
I miss the Microjig ad lol. Great video though. I love seeing everyone elses views on care for cutting boards.
you can use walnut-oil, it doesn't get ranzy or something like that.
walnut-oil oil is the only naturally-oil which drys over time.
I used olive oil on my wood cutting boards for over 20 years and never had any problem with rancidity or odors. I now use coconut oil due to it's Lauric acid content making it anti microbial. I could never use a petroleum product like mineral oil on a food prep surface.
Linseed oil also seems to be a good choice. It does not get rancid and does not tend to stay tacky. It polymerizes and gets hard. Without siccatives it takes a long time to dry. I have no idea if it is food safe with them.
Fractionated coconut oil does not go rancid or harden in the cold.
+ Stewart Buckley
Does it still have the lauric acid?
ian jones You hate the people who advocate for mineral oil? A differing preference for cutting board oils invokes hate? Steve must be really devastated to hear that you hate him, I know that I'm gutted to know that a random stranger hates me for that...
Okay I miss put that and apologise I do like Steve just don't agree with the mineral oil. But to each there own
Well done. Thank you
I use linseed/flaxseed oil to treat cutting boards. Not the boiled kind, but the one you use for salads. AFAIK, linseed/flaxseed oil is the only cooking oil that actually polymerizes completely. That's exactly the reason why we use boiled linseed oil for treating wood! Note that the stuff you buy for treating wood often has some additives in it to allow it to polymerize faster (oil drying agents). Those are NOT food safe!
I never knew baby oil was mineral oil. Thanks for the tip
Great tips!
A good oil for cutting boards is walnut oil. It does not start to smell and it reacts with oxigen and gets really hard.
I use it quite often for toys and stuff that needs to be food save.
Excellent video, Steve. Just the job.
Great video as usual Steve . Keep up the good work
ayyy Santa Cruz represent 🐌
Great info Steve! I'm going to save this and recommend it to anyone who buys a cutting board from me!
Diggin the series!! much love Steve!
Great info, thanks
i like the way you explain. thumps up..
sometimes having that divet in the middle from constant use can be a good thing! means that food will roll towards the center more often lol
STEVE YOU SHOULD FILM YOURSELF PLAYING THAT GUITAR. I'll be waiting for that video on mere minutes :P
Nice one Steve a well explained video. I have that cutting board designer that you mentioned when you made that exact cutting board, it's great!!
Barry (ENG)
I seasoned my end grain cutting board real well and I washed the top earlier today, with light water and dried right way. 10 minutes later I saw it warp up. I did lay it flat to hope it goes down a bit. A few hours later, it did go down a little... is this normal for this to keep happening? Am I supposed to splash water on both sides to even it out when I wash and dry?
Thanks for these explanations
Good week
Good info, I like. I need to get better at cutting board maintenance too :) Vinegar and baking soda, an acid and a base...seems like they would simply neutralize each other and have no effect. And for smoothing an end-grain cutting board how about a block plane since their name comes from their original purpose -- planing end-grain chopping blocks?
Now I want one. It is so pretty
This is a good series Steve.
I use vegetable oil on my cutting boards an never has a problem
Only thing is it takes a few hours to try, although that may be the wood I'm using
wow i thought c would be clamps
Too predictable! Haha.
Maybe it will be "K"
Can Ken Make It? K is for Kreg.
If D is for Door Stop, I bet you can make that video is a few seconds.
You're not the only one :-)
I think Steve read what I wrote some time ago and he changed his mind :-)
Great video, Steve.
Thanks for reminding me to oil up my cutting boards!
Nice grain on that six stings behind you.
I have used olive oil and had no problems for years.
Absolutely beautiful!!
like The Mystery Spot sticker !
Michigan.
Good info Steve. Thanks!
dovetails next please!!!!
Excellente.
Cool --I do the same thing))))
Very cool Vid Steve! I do wish you'd try to make another end grain chopping board but only using a mitre saw, a router rable and a belt & mouse sanders - consider it a challenge from a mere mortal with some seriously limited workspace :) You could even make one with your logo inlaid nicely to show us how it's done the MM way :D keep up the great work and looking forward to more of your vids!
awesome vid and info
Thanks, great explanation!
This was a very informative video :) Thanks
great advice Steve
Can you use coconut oil to season the board?
Great video. Baby oil? Who knew! What grit or grits do you use to sand cutting boards to remove the center indent? It's probably on 9ne of your other videos but I haven't watched them all yet. Thanks again
The Witch!! Awesome movie
I always use vegetable oil on my boards, usually once a month or once two months, and nothing never smells. Maybe if its extrmally hot and you would leave the board on sun for couple of days something would happen, but basically no fear.
Hey, how about do a build video making an end-grain cutting board? Just a thought. As always, thanks for the videos.
Awesome vid & shirt, love The Witch 🖤
Love your shirt, that's such a great film.
I thought c would stand for 'cutting boards'.
Really surprised that it actually stands for cuttingboards.
Great tips though!
Have a good one!
Cheers!
Can`t wait for ÆØÅ ;)
You rock Steve!
Thank you.
Awesome information great tips to know
Steve, you must like italian espresso...bravo!!!
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+Pasquale Mandara Love it!
Black Philip!
Love it, thanks Steve!
I have a bamboo cutting board that has a bit of a smell to it, probably from onions now that you mention it :)
What would you suggest I do about it?
Sand it down a bit?
Wash it off really good? If that, with what? Should vinegar and baking soda do it?
Mineral oil is usually sold in the same aisle as the laxatives
Jarrod V: big box home centers do not know this LoL!
I didn't think about this but I needed some mineral oil for some wooden spoons and at Target they had it labeled as a laxative
thanks for the great info dude!
No one's gonna talk about how this super friendly looking guy is wearing a T-shirt advertising one of the most absolutely disturbing movies on Netflix o_O lol.
Hey Steve. I'm glad you came out with this today. Curious - I've made a few boards recently (some face grain, some end grain) and they're all perfect until I oil them and bring them inside. They all have warped out of flat (within the first 24 hours). Kiln dried wood, mostly hard maple. Any tips on preventing this?
Maybe a silly question, but did u follow the rules of gluing?
Glue up was "normal". Glued up the edge grain first, ran through the planer 24 hours later, cut into strips, flipped to end grain, glued up, 24 hours later, sanded flat. Completely flat until I oiled. 24 hours later - warped...
Sorry, I was thinking about that you have to keep the grain orientation in mind. You should glue sapwood to sapwood and heartwood to heartwood.
Check out mtmwood on youtube, he is the master of endgrain cuttingboards and has a great basic tutorial.
face grain will have a tendency to want to warp and there are a number of factors as to why it might be doing that for you.
Slab or laminated. A slab face grain board it going to want to cup. Try cutting narrower strips and laminating them together.
Grain orientation. When laminating, flip every second board so the grain is facing the opposite way. This will help keep your board flatter.
Type of wood and climate. Some wood is more stable than others. And humidity can play a factor especially if your shop and kitchen feel like two very different climates.
Face grain vs edge grain vs end grain. Each one has pros and cons and you need to weigh those out. Some people enjoy face because it's easy to make, shows off the face grain, but prone to warping. Edge is more stable than face because of the straight grain, but often not as visually pleasing as face. End grain is tough, durable, easier on knives but harder to make compared to others and more expensive. You also want to make sure they are thick enough to prevent warping.
How thick was your end grain board? I do boards up to 13" x 17" at 1 1/4" thick and don't have any warpage problems. Andrei at MTM wood uses 40mm rough thickness giving ~ 1 1/2 finished. He does some quite large boards.
steve is a chopaholic he does a lot of chopping :)
+Mike McDonald Chop till I drop!
What do you mean when you say end grain will heal?
Great video and very informational. Thinking of trying my hand at making my own cutting board soon. Just not sure where is the best place to find Teak Wood for a good price. Dont think our local Sams Club or Home Depot Carry it.
To find teak you would need to find a specialty shop like Woodcraft or Rockler. Doing a search in your area for exotic wood in your area might result in non-chain stores as well.
i feel i have seen this before, on this channel, atleast the part in the kitchen.
Excellent video. I'm setting a woodshop and for the beginning I'll sell cutting boards and other simple products. The informations from this video will help me selling them.
Interesting...
3:00 Meh... with black T-shirt you looks like a superstar!
So, can I use safely any kind of baby oil on a cutting board? Mineral oil as a product itself is not something common in my country, but baby oil it is, and I always wonder if I could use it and if it is food safe.
If you can slather it on a baby, I imagine it would be pretty safe?
What kind of wood will you recommend ?
Waterlux, or tung oil finish once a decade or so
how expensive can 1-1/4 thick end grain board?
Terrific video! Do you have any recommendations for filling a 1/4" x 1/2" gauge in a side grain cutting board? I have one that's a custom size for a spot on my sailboat gally, but somehow someone gauged a chunk out of it and I'm not sure how to replace it.
Can I just use wood filler or some kind of epoxy, then stand it all down and oil?
how about a few examples of wood species for cutting boards , not too exotic, types that aren't very difficult to find.
I did not know I could use baby oil! Maybe I might actually oil my boards more often... Not once a month, but occasionally...😁
You and I have the same schedule for oil treatment. Are there any hardwoods you would recommend to not use when making a cutting board?