I finally gave up washing my cutting boards with soap after 15 years

Had a mentor in Detroit tell me to just scrape and salt them clean years ago and I thought he was nuts - tried it on my end grain board last month and the smell alone convinced me I was the one who was wrong. Anyone else make the switch or am I just late to the party?

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oscarm2410d agoTop Commenter

...and the salt scrub totally changed my game for me too... I was a soap and hot water guy for like a decade before my buddy showed me the salt trick. The wood just feels cleaner somehow, not dried out. Plus that funky smell from trapped food bits disappears completely. I still use soap on plastic boards but never on wood anymore.

fiona_murray10d ago

@oscarm24 pretty much nailed it. The salt trick is the only way to go with wood boards. Soap just strips the oil and leaves them looking sad and dry after a while. I tried going back to soap once and regretted it within a week. The board felt rough and started cracking at the edges. Salt scrub keeps the wood conditioned and actually kills bacteria better than soap anyway. Learned that from an old butcher years ago and never looked back.