How to Get the Smell of Garlic Out of Your Wooden Cutting Board
by Rachel Fairbank from Lifehacker on (#5SS17)
If you own wooden utensils or cutting boards, you've probably noticed they have a way of retaining certain pungent odors. As much as we love our wooden kitchen tools, they are also porous, so they easily absorb strong smells-and then transfer those smells to foods we're preparing later (garlic watermelon, anyone?).