I treat my wooden kitchen countertop with MILK! | Countryside living in Finland [ENG SUB]
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2022
- For two years, I have treated my wooden kitchen countertops with milk! Milk seals the wood naturally and makes them easier to clean - the countertop feels smooth as silk afterwards. I use whole milk, but any milk will work as long as it has casein (proteins usually found in mammalian milk).
5 easy steps for using milk in treating your countertops:
1. Remove everything from your counters
2. Wash them clean with COLD water and your usual cleaning product (I clean with linseed oil soap)
3. Wait for the counter to dry completely
4. Pour milk on top and spread it evenly
5. Wait for it to dry and it's ready! If there are few milk patches that does not impregnate anymore, just wipe them off with COLD water.
Why use cold water? If you clean your wooden countertops with hot/warm water, wood grains will open and dirt will be absorbed into the wood making it harder to clean.
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I live with my family on a 1,5 ha (~4 acre) homestead in Southern Finland. Our home is a 217-year old heritage log house and we are learning the skills necessary to restore and maintain it. When we moved here from the city, I fell in love not only with the house but with the overgrown, wild remnants of a garden. We are building the garden up again and making it an edible, flowering garden with lots of space for wildlife.
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Will you be trying this out on your wooden countertops? Or go wild and milk treat your floors? 🤪😁
Beautiful kitten. You should always say you live in a 300 year old home in Finland, in your title!!! I really enjoy your videos!
I love that your cat likes to be on your shoulder:)
Your little kitten is so sweet!
I can't wait to try this on my wood countertops. Thank you so much for sharing! 🥛
You even make "spilled milk" entertaining. Also enjoy your very intelligent, subtle, understated [Finnish thing?] sense of humor.
I have a wooden high chair and rocking chair with milk stains on them from when my four , now adult, children were toddlers. I have tried several times over the decades to remove these remnants of the milk, using various cleaners, with no success. After watching this video and learning the casein in milk can be used to seal wooden countertops, I now have a better appreciation for why I have, so far, been unable to remove the milk spots from these pieces of furniture. If I make another attempt, I will use a more aggressive washing cloth. Tk you for this video. I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for the idea and the kitty is quite lovely and so sweet.
Fascinating! We have wooden counters and also a cow. I think I'm going to try this!! Thanks!
Ha, I understood when you were counting 😁. Funny story: when I was a kid I met a Finnish couple living on a farm in Angola and they taught me how to count to ten in Finnish. But now I can only remember up to 4. Your kitten is adorable.
This is so interesting - I've never seen anyone do this. Thanks. My only question is, does Smetana try to get up on the counter and drink the milk?
I really do not understand - what is the thinking behind this? Is it because milk has lactic acid in it?
Kaseiinia? Tuota en tiennytkään!