Why buy a wooden salad bowl?

Wooden salad bowl are the perfect compliment to a farmers market organic salad or home grown greens. Simple use the back of a fork to grind garlic, basil, parsley with salt into the side your wooden bowl an old school beginning to you own home made salad dressing. Bamboo is an alternative unfortunately the glues used in all Bamboo bowls of any useable size make Bamboo an unhealthy choice for grinding herbs into the sides of the bowl. The larger the bamboo bowls the similar it is in price to a North American wooden bowl. Ceramic and glass salad bowls are nice table landscape unfortunately you can`t make a homemade salad dressing in the bowl.

How do I clean my wooden salad bowl?

Soap and water clean up just like a great black cast iron pan. A quick wipe with a soapy sponge and a quick rinse and your bowl is food safe. You never place in the dish washer or soak. Dry it off or flip it up on your sink drainer and store it on your table ready for your next dinner for two or family dinner.

What kind of foods can I serve in my wooden bowls?

They're not just for salad and popcorn! Serve anything you care to: wet (soup), cereal (granola), wet slaw (blue cheese slaw), or salsa (tomato fresco). Use wooden bowl sets to compliment your farmer's market foods. Wooden bowls mix well with stoneware, ceramic and glass. Thin of wooden bowl this way Organic turkey for thanksgiving server your cranberry sauce in a wooden bowl. Never store wet foods in your bowls overnight.

How often do I rub my bowls with a bowl rub a wood preservative?

Our hand turned wooden bowls love to be used everyday. You won`t wear them out and the food oils only enhance the good looks of wood. These are Sunday best everyday bowls and a touch up with bowl rub for special occasions is always just right. Your wood Bowl setting around collecting dust then you will have to rub it a bit more often.

Why choose Cherry or Black Walnut Wooden bowls?

Beautiful functional woods producing Bold Beautiful bowls as a food safe alternative to gallery. Beautiful bold grained hard wood bowls perfect for everyday use and a lot of eye candy for the money. Bamboo can't compete for beauty with these two North American woods. These two hardwoods add value and compare closely with gallery bowls. Over the years many bowl Turners used Birch or Beech woods easy to turn producing a doughy color. Often stained or painted stained or shiny bowls are never food safe.

Are Burl wooden bowls and live edge bowls for display only?

Burl bowls should never be used for food. Burls are often treated with non food safe finishes to protect the wood make them shine or stains to even out the color. These gallery bowls often too small for family salad bowls and to expensive to risk being used as a serving dish. Live edge bowls should never be used for food. Fragile edges are collection areas for bacteria. You may store fruit in live edge bowls or leave them in the display case.

Do you offer anything other than cherry?

I have Maple bowl Black Walnut bowl and I don't see these woods on your web site. Do you offer anything other than cherry? Yes we do and these wooden bowls are in stock for immediate shipment. Cherry simply is the wood of first choice.