[Sca-cooks] Wooden Bowls

[Craig Jones.]

>>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."
>
>Don't know how far gone the bowls are.  But I've let wooden cutting
boards
>"soak" in bleach/water mixtures hundreds of time to no ill
>effect.  Scrapping with a flat blade afterward removed the rest of
the gunk.

Yet, there is evidence to say that when chlorine bleaches react with
organic matter they form chloroamines which are not particularly good
for you (suspected carcinogens).  No idea if this extends to woods...

Drakey.