[Sca-cooks] Wooden Bowls

[Ann]

I was going through our Canton's cooking and feastgear this past weekend.
By default, it has all wound up in our storage shed for the past couple of
years.  Most of it is in Rubbermaids.  However, there was a cardboard box
with about 40 wooden bowls in it which haven't been used for our last
several feasts.  We had them when I first started cooking in 1992, so
they're at least a decade old, probably much older since they mostly came
from thrift stores.

For lack of a better word, these bowls have acquired a "musky" odor from
being in storage.  The recommendations I've received so far for trying to
fix them have ranged from "use a bleach-water mix" to "don't put bleach on
wood" to "just toss them, because you'll never get rid of the aroma."

So, does anyone here have any recommendations about what, if anything, can
be done?

John le Burguillun