{"id":53,"date":"2026-10-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/caring-for-wooden-boards\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:59:35","slug":"caring-for-wooden-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/caring-for-wooden-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for wooden boards: oil, not soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-lead-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ash and oak last for decades if they get a little attention. Here is the routine we use on our own boards.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After every use<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rinse with warm water, wipe with a damp cloth and let the board dry standing on its edge. Never leave it in the sink and never put it in the dishwasher.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Once a month<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rub a spoonful of food-safe oil into both sides, leave it overnight and wipe off what the wood has not taken. Linseed or a mineral oil both work; olive oil can turn rancid.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When it looks tired<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Light scratches disappear with fine sandpaper, grit 240, along the grain. Oil it afterwards and the board looks new again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash and oak last for decades if they get a little attention. Here is the routine we use on our own boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care"],"leitvia_pattern_status":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}