Compared with blunt cold plastic tableware, warm wooden tableware preserved from the warm atmosphere of the earth, warm color of the moist texture, not only to make food look particularly delicious, but also give life a little more temperature.
However, wooden tableware`s surface light brown luster will gradually dim after years of baptism, but also improper cleaning caused deformation or mildew.
General wooden tableware can be divided into lacquer kind and un-lacquer kind. Coated with a layer of paint can prevent the wood by the external material intrusion, and maintenance or usage is also more convenient, but you should pay attention to the surface of the raw materials paint.
As for the 100% of logs, no artificial coating of tableware, the biggest drawback is the fear of water. Wood itself has invisible fine holes to the naked eye, the external water vapor, dirty, oily grease is very easy to penetrate them, they are easy to moldy rot after cleaning.
Since wooden tableware are so afraid of water, should we not wash them if they are not dirty, or oiled?
This concept is wrong, even if they are not dirty, not oil, but the naked eye can not see the food residue if not thoroughly clean, It is easy to attract worms, cockroaches. Tableware as long as the use of must be cleaned.
However, because wooden tableware is afraid of water, so the cleaning way and store way are different from general tableware. But following these tips, you can do it in an easier way.
Trick 1: Use eat baking soda, bitter tea powder or tea water as cleanser. There is no difference in the way the tableware is clean whether the lacquer is painted or not. You can use edible baking soda powder, bitter tea powder to clean them. If the tableware is much oily, you can use tea water or tea residue to clean them, tea contains theophylline and could help to clean oil. You can soak the tableware into the tea water or put the tea residue in a small filter bag to wipe the grease when you cleaning wood tableware. In addition, wooden tableware could also be cleaned by neutral detergent cleaning, but please pay attention to try not to use a flavor of detergent because detergent will inevitably seep into the wood of the fine hole.
Trick 2: Use a soft sponge, avoid soaking too long Clean. It`s better to use a soft sponge to wipe off the oil gently. Please don`t use Loofah cloth or steel ball to clean them, or wash them with other harder fork, knife, dish board together. These materials are hard utensils and will peel off the surface paint of wooden tableware. It is better not to soak for too long when washing them. The soak time need be controlled in 5-10 minutes.
Trick 3: Dry them in a cool place after washing the tableware. It is better to dry the water immediately, or put them vertically in the dry shade place. Please be careful not to place them in high temperature or water vapor, such as refrigerators, drinking fountains, rice cookers, and do not recommend direct exposure. Excessive temperature or excessive humidity will easy to make wood cracking, deformation or breeding bacteria. You can also heat the oven for 5 minutes then turn off the power and use the remaining temperature to quickly dry the wood cutlery.
Trick 4: Don't put them in an airtight cabinet when you are not use them in a long time. The best place to store them is the ventilation, cool place. Please do not recommend directly into the airtight cabinet. In addition, please be attention that store them with other metal tableware would easy be scratched if the wood is soft.
Trick 5: Regularly apply olive oil to maintain wood, restore bright color. Wooden cutlery should be maintained on a regular basis as well as skin. Tableware used for a long time will inevitably lose the original wood of the bright color. Please regularly coated on the tableware with a thin layer of olive oil, you can restore the luster of the wood.
Trick 6: Sterilized with warm hot water and don`t use alcohol. High concentration of alcohol will damage the wood surface coating. Please use 50~60℃ warm water if you want to sterilize.
Wooden tableware has a certain period of use even if they are be correct cleaned and well storage. You need immediately replace them when you find them have discoloration, wear, cracking, or even adhesion to the situation of mildew.