Comments on: Unfinished Narra Salad Bowls

By: elisa

elisa — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:00:48 +0000

looking for 30″ round unfinished decor plates to be painted
pls, reply any information
thank you

By: Quillene

Quillene — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:51:03 +0000

Hi MM! I just learned something new on oiling wooden salad bowls…. Thanks to your wonderful blog.

Where do you get your mineral oil?

By: Odit

Odit — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:34:44 +0000

Monkeypod, I believe, is Acacia

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:35:11 +0000

Mineral oil is better than olive oil or other vegetable oil for treating wooden kitchen items like butcher blocks because it is a highly purified petroleum product that essentially won’t oxidise. Vegetable oils all have some unsaturated fats which do oxidise.

Interestingly, plain un-oiled wood has some antibacterial properties itself and if you are scrupulous about not contaminating it with raw meats or eggs or such, washing with hot water followed by thorough air-drying is pretty effective.

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:57:41 +0000

Never realized that. I now have to replace the varnished eating stuff. Thanks.

By: Bel

Bel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:56:57 +0000

Maybe P-noy’s speech should have added “walang illegal logging.” Unlike wang-wang (only we Pinoys would call sirens this way) and tong, illegal logging actually kills. Come to think of it, I don’t think he said anything about the environment, or about agrarian reform, as someone pointed out.

However, other than smoking, he seems to have another vice: consuming chicharong bulaklak and chicharon something from a restaurant he frequents at Morato, where he made a side trip last night. Maybe someone should gift him with an unvarnished salad bowl and order him (as in utos ng mamamayan, his boss) to eat more veggies.

Thank you for this tip MM. But like Nadia, I hope all the wood the outlet uses are legit. Such manufacturers/producers should have proper permits prominently displayed and indicated on their products.

By: joy from la

joy from la — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:58:07 +0000

can anyone tell me where monkeypod is from? growing up, we had a bunch of those
wooden bowls plus figurines and always called it monkeypod….i may be spelling it wrong.
by the way, my mom was from bagiuo (mountain province). that’s where the bowls
came from. is it the same wood?

By: Candygirl

Candygirl — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:25:21 +0000

Oh, I’d love to buy a big wooden bowl as a proofing bowl for my bread doughs.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:50:42 +0000

Beautiful bowls MM…but NARRA? I am hoping against all hope that they use salvaged wood! In this day and age…Narra and Kamagong bowls produced in those quantities (and for export at that!) are all from illegally sourced wood.

Please please please please tell me, MM, that I am wrong in this case.

By: Risa

Risa — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:08:09 +0000

You really learn new things everyday! I did not realize that the mabolo comes from kamagong. I assumed it was from the mabolo tree, haha.

Thanks, Footloose!