Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season
| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #004.
Al Carrell : Almost every kitchen has a cutting board and whole lot of people have gone to getting butcher blocks for their kitchen. When you prepare food on a surface like this, it's bound to leave some trace, and those stains ought to come out of there. First of all, they look bad. Secondly, they're probably not too sanitary. I'm going to show you an easy way to take care of the stains. First of all, just sprinkle some salt out over it, just regular table salt, and then take a lemon wedge and that lemon wedge you can start rubbing on there and the action of the lemon and the salt will take out nearly all the stains. If it doesn't take the stain out, if it's a real stubborn stain, you can take laundry bleach, just liquid laundry bleach and pour that over the stain and leave it on there for about 10 minutes and then rinse it off, and that's probably going to take care of it. Sometimes you have to do that a second time. Now since it is a cutting board, that means we're going to be cutting on it and that's going to leave some scratches. So what you can do there is sand those out of there. And if you use a power sander it's going to be a lot quicker than if you use hand sanding. And just go over the whole surface and get it smooth again and now you need to protect the surface. There is a product on the market called Cutting Board Oil, or Butcher Block Oil, and you also can you cooking oil. My favorite though is mineral oil, because it has no taste. The cooking oil does have a little bit of a taste and everybody has mineral oil around the house. You pour that on there, wipe away the excess after about 15 minutes and you are all set to do whatever the next cooking chore is.
Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season
| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #004.