Woo-hoo! (journey with the gas can)

[elainegrey]

Something is working! As i left the kitchen with my tea tray this morning i marveled at the natural patterns in the Baltic granite counter-top and our  butcher block island. (https://aquakitchen.com/product/baltic-brown-granite/)

I never do that in there! I USUALLY wonder why ANYONE would choose that as a food prep surface because with the dark mottled appearance there is no easy way to know it's clean. (My assumption is that the cabinet maker who lived here before us  got it from a job site where it was turned down, which is my general explanation for much of the mismatched trims and fittings.) That's usually followed by guilt in that i suspect we are supposed to be cossetting the surface, and we are not. The butcher block ALSO needs a good conditioning and it's been on my to-do list for months, and "there's-a-thing-to-do" is the standard reaction  i really see it (or, "Yay, isn't that much better now that i have taken care of it."

Today i marveled at the patterns.

Yay!

Comments

[cmcmck]

That's why I use endgrain beech butcher's blocks for food prep

[tamena]

I love that stone! I'd like an island with it, I'm partial to lighter counters on cabinets though. Our countertops are dark and I agree I can't see it they're CLEAN (I clean them, hubby not so much, love him but he's a SLOB!)
most of my cleaning is done by feel LOL wipe it down, scrub the rough spots and a swipe of the hand to feel for more gunkiness

[amaebi]

I'm so very glad!

[weofodthignen]

Good :-) (If you have enough light in the kitchen, that is rather nice. :-) )