cac0fae8c8f092b7d7e32f10d5d4e9c220d2969b My Health Is My Life: How To Clean And Care Your Maple Bowls And Wooden Stuffs

How To Clean And Care Your Maple Bowls And Wooden Stuffs

By Martha Richardson


Kitchenware and other utensils are very valuable at home. They are used when we cook, eat and serve our food. It aids us in almost every cooking activities that we do in our house that is why they are very valuable.

Kitchenware are made up of different materials. Most utensils that you may see are usually made up of aluminum and iron, but there are also those made up of copper and also of wood. Having wooden utensils, just like maple bowls, may be hard to maintain because they needed much cleaning it looks also good when you have one.

Some people prefer using wooden kitchenware because they have fascination to wooden stuffs or maybe because they inherited it from their parents or great grand parents. Once these types kitchenware have been used for a long time already, it quickly looses its gloss finish, that is they need extra care. Here are few tips on how to clean and take care of them to avoid continuous replacing of these things.

Wash immediately. Food particles usually stick to kitchen wares were not washed immediately after being used. Make sure that after enjoying your meal in your bowl, you were able to wash it through warm water. Warm water is good in taking away food particles that sticks unto your bowl.

Avoid heat. Heat could easily crack woods, that is why it is extremely dangerous to put them to heat. Do not ever use your wooden bowls when you wanted to microwave some food. Use also other kind of bowl for hot soups since it might crack your bowl. And more importantly, do not put these utensils and bowls in a dishwasher. You must hand wash them.

Run some white vinegar. When you have not properly washed your tools, it might leave some small food grains which you may not see. Running some vinegar to would kill the bacteria that stayed in the porous surface of the kitchenware. Run in for about 4 teaspoons of vinegar and set it aside for about 30 minutes.

Smooth it out. Try to feel your utensils if you could notice something rough and coarse, it might be some tiny particles from the food or the wood has started to get fuzzy. All you need to do to fix this is problem is to use sandpaper. Rub the sandpaper in the area where there is a fuzzy feeling. Softly rub it so that you will not cause more damage to the tools.

Apply oil. Wooden utensils easily loose their glossiness especially of they are used often. In order to maintain its lustrous beauty, apply oil to the entire body of the tool, especially the part where it is a bit dry. Wipe it then with a white clean cloth.

Storage. After using it, place it in its proper storage. The heat of the sunlight is another factor that could ruin your kitchen ware so make sure that your storage area for these kinds of item is somewhere where there is not sunlight than can pass through.




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