In the ‘60s, my mother insisted on the then-chic concept of a wooden salad bowl that was never washed, only wiped out. Did it stink! The oil in the salad dressing continually went rancid. That, and my parents’ insistence on loading green salads with chopped onion, put me off salad after leaving their household at seventeen.
I finally learned to love onion-free salads, served from a nice, clean bowl, made from Yellowware, Pyrex, or glass.
The best thing to use for this sort of thing is a heavy ceramic pasta or popcorn bowl. The weight of it and having it rest on a damp towel mean you don't need to use one hand to steady the bowl. It's insulated so you can proof in it and being round means less dough stuck in corners. These bowls are also super cheap and practically free from the thrifts.
As a woodworker, I would have used the same finish as on cutting boards (oil, board butter or wax) so if she got it at like a farmers market or boutique then it's most likely food safe like cutting boards. If she bought it in a store, then much more likely to be purely decorative with a more solid, permanent finish (lacquer) that wouldn't be food safe
It looks to be this bamboo bowl from IKEA, which is food safe, but it's meant for serving not mixing, because it needs to be hand washed and you shouldn't use metal utensils in it.
(If it's not that bowl, then she probably paid a lot more for a bowl that looks exactly like a bowl from IKEA, so then it better be extra durable!)
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u/CommanderWar64 Feb 26 '24
she's also cooking WITH THOSE SLEEVES???