Ed Wohl

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Ed Wohl Birdseye Maple Bread Boards - Cutting Boards

Touch an Ed Wohl handmade cutting board and you will feel a silky smooth surface with rounded edges and corners. Birdseye maple bread, cutting and serving boards are handmade with exquisite attention to detail. Some have a nicely formed hole so you can hang them.

Browse the selection and see

• Pizza Paddle Style Cutting Boards,
• Round cutting boards,
• Rectangular Cutting Boards

Ed Wohl uses bird's-eye maple for all his wood cutting boards- serving boards you see here.  Birds eye maple shows a pattern of hundreds of small oval figures resembling bird's eyes. Only one in perhaps 500 hardwood maple trees will exhibit this pattern.  Experts are uncertain why birdseyes occurs.

Look closely at an Ed Wohl wood cutting board and you will see something special.   Ed painstakingly aligns the patterns in the birdseye so they closely match.  This gives each board a distinctive appearance

Oil your Wood Cutting Boards and Utensils

We use and recommend Ed's Wood Conditioner Oil with Walnut Oil and Beeswax.

Ed says "Shake the bottle thoroughly to distribute the beeswax, then apply liberally. rub the oil in with a soft cloth in the direction of the grain."

Many woodworkers recommend oiling cutting boards with clean bare hands. The warmth and friction from your fingers helps the oil penetrate deeper.

After a few hours of drying, wipe off any oil not absorbed. Then do it again.

Two coats is normally enough to last months. If you find your cutting board wants more oil sooner than this, try three or four coats.

Cleaning and Sanitizing Wood Cutting Boards, spoons and bowls

First, wash your wood cutting boards with soap and water. We recommend all natural real soaps like Sunflower or Dr. Bronner's. To be extra effective, use a scrub brush to get into any nooks or crannies. Afterwashing, let your cutting board air dry. Just be sure water does not pool on it.

Next, sanitize your wood cutting board:

Did you know, studies have shown that a hardwood cutting board is more sanitary that those polyethylene, boards? It turns out, bacteria prefers to live in artificial plastic scratches and cracks. So, your old wood cutting board is actually more sanitary than the modern "improvement". Here are a few home recipes for sanitizing solutions:

1. Hydrogen peroxide 3% solution.
2. White distilled vinegar, 3 tablespoons in 1 cup of water or
3. Two tablespoons of bleach in a quart of water.

Cover your cutting board with the sanitizing solution, Then rinse with warm water and air dry.  If you haven't oiled your wood for a few months- read on.