Referral for Butcher Block Countertops ??? (Laguna Niguel, Laguna: condo, buy, oil)

[Lynch]

I'm remodeling a small kitchen in a Laguna Niguel condo and need a company who will install butcher block countertops for me (not an island-the actual counter tops). Do you have a referral for me, thanks!!

[Coldjensens]

You can buy the material at IKEA. Any decent carpenter or handyman can install it for you. Remember that you need to clean and oil them fairly frequently. When they get really yucky, you can just sand them down until the look nice again. I love butcher block.


One last thing to remember, if you cut meat on butcher block, the knife may push little bits of meat down into groves/indentations made by the knife. The bits of meat might then rot and grow all sort of foul things. The solution is to always use a marble or plastic cutting board. We usually just clean with a bleach based cleaner and we never had any problems although arguably the meat or other yuck int he grooves could be in too deep to be effected by the bleach. Although I have heard the theory that bits of meat can get pushed down into the groves and rot or grw really yucky things, I have never heard of anyone actually getting sick from this. Maybe it has happened, maybe it is just a theory.

My theory is that if you are the kind of person who does not clean throughly enough to eliminate such things, then you are going to get exposed to some horrid yuck growing in your kitchen anyway.