How to Clean Butcher Block Kitchen Tables

Butcher blocks provide useful kitchen work space.

A butcher block table adds beauty and functionality to a kitchen. Because you use your butcher block table for daily food preparation, keep it clean and sanitary to protect your food and to maintain the table's natural beauty. Clean a natural-oil or semi-gloss finish butcher block table in similar ways. Add a little tender loving care every few uses to ensure a long and lustrous life for this valuable work surface.

Things You'll Need

• 1/8 cup bleach
• Warm soapy water
• Coarse scrub pad
• Stainless-steel bread dough cutter
• Dish cloth
• Warm water
• Dry cotton cloth

Instructions

1. Mix a squirt of mild dish soap in warm water to create light suds. Add 1/8 cup of bleach to the suds.

2. Dip a coarse scrubbing sponge or pad in the cleaning mixture. Wipe the surface of a natural-oil finish or a semi-gloss butcher block table to loosen food from the surface.

3. Use a stainless-steel bread dough cutter to scrape all the food particles from the table surface. Wipe the table with a wet cloth. Dry the surface with a dry cotton cloth.

Tips & Warnings

• Rub warmed mineral oil onto a natural-oil finish butcher block table after every four or five uses, suggests The Cooking Inn.

• Avoid allowing liquids to sit on natural-oil or semi-gloss butcher block surfaces to minimize spotting,

References

• The Cooking Inn: Caring for Wooden Utensils and Cutting Boards
• The Butcher Block Top: Butcher Block Counter FAQs