-Originally posted on Tumblr on 3/1/23.
This is my countertop after normal messy kitchen use for months. It has been covered in sauce drippings, coffee rings, and red cabbage spots.
When I put it in the shitty contractor was very vocal about how fragile it would be, and I read online and watched YouTube vids where people were super unhappy about having it in their kitchens. It got me scared that I might have made a mistake and I started worrying about it a lot. I’m a worrier at heart.
Yet, we’ve dumped things all over it and it comes right off. I finished it with mineral oil, and reapply it when I remember, and it’s been amazing. Nothing has remotely stained it. I have literally dumped steak drippings all over it, and it just wipes right up.
I used to work at The Wild Garlic in Bellingham, and it had dark 30 year old butcher block counters. We cut directly on them, and some areas were actually concave where decades of cutting happened. We never gave it any thought. I loved them because we tossed hot pots right on it. It’s the reason I got them in my house.
I’m not sure anything we do can mess it up honestly. It seems to be perfect and I am no longer worried. I am really happy with them.
I just want to note the shitty contractor took a picture of this corner join, not when it was 1/8th inch uneven between sections and unfilled, but after I spent the evening after he left, sanding and filling it. As if he did the finishing work. Like, unbelievable.
Garden Rat 