Wooden Cooking Utensils, Bleach, Toxins

There is a large range of wooden cooking utensils available in the market. Some of these utensils are useful, while the others aren’t. Some of these cooking utensils can make the time in kitchen easier, more productive and more enjoyable. Some utensils have been designed for some specific purpose, for performing some specific job at kitchen, while some others are for general purpose, the all-in-one tools. The wooden utensils are sure to look classic in your kitchen. Moreover, eating in wooden utensils could be fun. However, you need to maintain these utensils well.

Have you recently discovered wooden spoon in back corner of the drawer? Perhaps the spoon was found be lying under the sink and don’t even know where exactly it has been? However, you need not throw away this handy tool. Here is how you can probably disinfect the spoon. Disinfecting should allow you to restore the usefulness in kitchen.

Few simple steps for disinfection of wooden cooking utensils:

Firstly, you need to analyze the kind of dirt that the utensil has accumulated. In case you happen to find the wooden spoon buried in a yard or floating at the street during the flood then don’t think much and throw away the spoon. There isn’t any process for cleaning the spoon which would remove the toxins off the utensil.

Prepare for the disinfection of the wooden utensils. Make it a point to wash off the utensils thoroughly.

Place bleach in a tub and fill the tub with some hot water. Good ratio would be one part of bleach to about twenty parts of water. Place your wooden utensil into this mixture.

Let the wooden utensil to soak in this bleach water for about an hour. As per the rule, you don’t want to soak the wooden utensil too often but just periodically. Periodically it’s important to disinfect the utensil thoroughly and initial disinfecting could be critical.

Remove off bleach solution from the tub and fill up the tub with mixture of hot water and mild detergent like dish soap.

Make it a point to wash the wooden utensils by hand and allow the soapy water to rest for about fifteen minutes.

After you are done, simply feel the wooden utensil. In case the utensil feels fuzzy then it’s because grain of wooden is raised from soaking. If this happens then you would be required to take fine grit sandpaper and smooth the wooden utensil gently.

Rinse off the utensil again. This time, the utensil could be washed like you were washing any other utensil. If you follow these steps then you are sure to disinfect the wooden utensil. Otherwise, simply wash the utensil by using gentle detergent and then allow it to dry.

Renew also retain vibrancy of wood in the utensil by oiling periodically. Paper towel or piece of clean cloth could be used for administering oil to cooking utensils. Use the mineral oil, food safe oil which is typically used by the restaurants in order to increase longevity of the wooden cooking utensils. The mineral oil is minor laxative. Even regular usage of small quantity of this oil wouldn’t have any adverse effects. In case you are worried then you might allow oil to soak and rewash utensil then.

Following these simple steps, one can easily maintain the wooden cooking utensils well and use up those utensils that you found at the back corner of the drawer while cleaning.