A beech serving board can last for years, but not by itself. The difference between a board that is still on the table after two years and one that ends up at the back of a cupboard comes down to three simple habits. This is the advice we give ourselves \u2014 and that you as a retailer can pass on to your customers word for word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One cycle in the dishwasher does more damage than a year of daily use. The wood soaks up hot water, expands, and warps or cracks as it dries. Long soaking in the sink has the same effect. The rule is short: a wooden board never goes into the dishwasher and never sits in water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warm water, a drop of washing-up liquid, a soft brush or cloth \u2014 that is all. Rinse straight after use, done in thirty seconds. If a smell of onion or garlic lingers, rub the board with half a lemon and some coarse salt, leave it for a few minutes and rinse. That works better than any cleaning product and leaves nothing behind on a surface that food sits on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dry the board off and store it upright, so both sides dry in the air. Left flat on the counter, the underside stays damp, and that one-sided drying is exactly what makes wood warp. This is the most skipped step \u2014 and the easiest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our boards are delivered with a food-safe oil finish<\/a>, so a new board needs nothing. When the wood turns dull or lighter in colour over time, it is time to re-oil: a thin layer of food-safe wood oil, applied with a cloth along the grain, left to soak in overnight, excess wiped off. With daily use that comes down to about once every one to two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One warning: do not use olive or sunflower oil from the kitchen. They never dry and turn rancid in the wood. A bottle of food-safe wood oil costs a few euros and lasts for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A customer who knows how to care for their board enjoys it for years \u2014 and comes back to the shop that gave them that advice. A card with these three steps costs next to nothing and turns a gift into a purchase with a story. Combine it with a bottle of wood oil on the shelf and you have a logical add-on sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to judge the quality yourself? Order a sample pack<\/a> with three boards for \u20ac 25 ex VAT, or browse the full range of serving boards<\/a>. You see wholesale prices after creating a free business account<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drie simpele gewoontes bepalen of een houten plank jaren meegaat. Het onderhoudsadvies dat wij zelf geven, klaar om aan je klanten door te geven.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materiaal-kwaliteit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boards-beans.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}For retailers: care advice sells<\/h2>\n\n\n\n