I had a cutting board made from some nice wood, but which was starting to lose its bright appearance.
A bit of research later, and I get some food-safe mineral oil and wax to restore the surface. Long story short, I was so impressed by how my cutting board came back to life, now I’m looking for any excuse to touch up all the wood in our house. I don’t even mind if I clean the cutting board and wash off some of the wax, because then I have an excuse to apply another layer. There’s something fun about buffing and polishing a surface.
I’m thinking of getting into woodworking just so I can do this more. I don’t even really want to make anything, just apply a bunch of tung oil to a random plank and then wax it to a shine.


Oh yesssss. Get middling quality cast iron, grind it flat, and reseason. A couple of hours of work and you have primo quality cast iron cookware.
Also: you can clean cast iron with soap.
Obligatory mention: !castiron@lemmy.world
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What do you use to grind it flat? Mines got some crators I’d like to get rid of and didnt know this was an option.
A random orbit palm sander, or really any other sander that’s round, will do just fine.