[Sca-cooks] Wooden Bowls

[Elaine Koogler]

There's a cleaner that's advertised on TV (can't remember the name) that
claims to get rid of mildew...that might work.  another thought is that you
might try lemon juice, then set them out in the sun.

Kiri

Ann wrote:

> 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
>
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