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I've only used plastic so far. A friend was moving and she gave me her wooden cutting board. I cut something with it, and some grease got on the cutting board. Now I can't remove the yellow spot no matter what I do. What can I do to clean it?

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My experience is different. Dries in a day, or less. Shrug. I'll keep using walnut, works just fine for my kitchen ware. I've used tung and linseed oil for furniture.

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you maybe using some kind of processed oil with dryers?

Because I haven't been able to get any natural oil to dry faster than maybe a couple of days to a week. That was on pieces of foil sitting in the sunlight with constant airflow.

So inside of a workpiece, I would assume it will even take much longer than that.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

i’m not sure what yall are calling “dry” but generally when applying penetrating oil finishes, one applies a generous amount to the wood, waits a given amount of time, usually a 20 minutes to an hour, and then wipes off the excess. then you flip the rag over and wipe it again. then again. ultimately you want the rag to come back clean and then you’re done.

that’s pretty much it. it’s as dry as it needs to be to be before buffing, waxing, or buffing and waxing the surface.

if you’re waiting days for the oils to dry, it seems likely to me that you’re leaving way too much oil on the wood.