garlic lover question

[mmgreens]

Recently on Martha Stewart she used a piece of stainless steel to rub her hands on to remove the garlic odor from her hands. I tried this with a stainless spoon and it really did work. Where has this tip been all my life. So to my question.. Does anyone know what will take the scent off my wooden cutting board??? and does anyone have any other great tips? thanks, Marcia

[lorilei]

You can use a quarter of a lemon to remove odor from both your knife and cutting board. Rub the lemon over the board immediately after cutting onions or garlic...

[shoyski]

I've heard that rubbing salt with water helps. I've never tried it, though.

[Gail]

What??

You mean you don't want to smell like garlic?

Silly girl... http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

[Zinnia]

I have heard of salt sprinkled on the board & rubbing a cut lemon in (to a paste), & letting it sit. Today I saw on Food TV that baking soda & a lime used in the same way works, or scrub in a bleach/water solution & let it sit for 10 min., rinse and air-dry.
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[Vanessa]

baking soda & lemon or lime. Actually my grandmother used to keep lemon halves near when cooking. She would use it to remove odors from onion etc from her hands & using it on cutting boards along with some baking soda works too.

[Shelly]

For the longest time, I only had one wooden cutting board. What I did was to use the top side for "smelly" things like onions and garlic, and I used the bottom for things like chopping nuts for baking or any other food that I didn't want to pick up the onion/garlic smell. It wasn't hard to know which side was which because this board had little plastic "feet" on the bottom side. I tried rubbing it with a cut lemon, but it didn't work that well. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif