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cleaning a butchers block.

can someone help, i bought a butchers block today. it has got somesort of shiny finish on it, i dont think its varnish. it needs a very good clean. it hasnt got blood and guts mess on it. just very grubby.

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  • love-hearts
    love-hearts Posts: 1,014 Forumite
    I watched my butcher cleaning his, he was scraping it with a sharp knife.
  • V.Lucky
    V.Lucky Posts: 806 Forumite
    My local bucher scrubs his with hot soapy water and a stiff brush then rubbed sawdust into it when I watched him doing it last week
    :hello:
  • N9eav
    N9eav Posts: 4,742 Forumite
    edited 28 May 2009 at 6:29AM
    The proper way is to clean it is with a block brush

    Then clean it off with some soda crystals in water.

    Put fresh dry sawdust on it to dry it out and keep it from smelling.

    If it's shiny someone had varnished it perhaps?

    (Former Butcher)
    NO to pasty tax We won!!!! Just shows that people power works! Don't be apathetic to your cause!
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