Should I get a wood salad bowl? Does it make salad better?

[Anonymous]

FIL’s wife made a huge deal about getting us a wooden salad bowl when we got married but we barely used it because it was a pain to maintain and store. It warped (we moved to a dry climate) so we got rid of it and I don’t miss it at all.

[Anonymous]

You know what makes salad better - bigger serving bowls.
It makes a difference when everything isn’t crowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what makes salad better - bigger serving bowls.
It makes a difference when everything isn’t crowded.

Yes!!! I love salad but howwwww can you get in a variety of ingredients and dressing in a little cereal bowl? "They" tell us to eat healthier but then give us tiny bowls of salad and giant plates of pasta.

Also, I don't like the scraping sound or feel of the wood. And I like how salad adds so much color on a table, so I use a glass bowl.

[Anonymous]

You need to add things into your salad that will make you eat it. What do you like to eat? Add it to the greens. It helps to cut the greens into smaller pieces so it doesn't feel like you are eating many leaves. I like to put salsa into my greens and sometimes sauces from meat and things like that. They act as my salad dressing.

[Anonymous]

OP here and thanks for the feedback. After realizing they need special care the wood salad bowl is out! I don't have time for that. I think one of the pp was right - I just need to get a bigger salad bowl.

[Anonymous]

I eat salad out of a giant metal mixing bowl. Occasionally I share with my family.

Wood is too high maintenance so it stays hidden in the attic somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Commercially made wooden salad bowls are high in arsenic and sulphates.

Is it a little more work to identify a hardwood tree, have it hewn and crafted to your specifications?

Yes, but that way you can get exactly what you want. In any case, it has worked for my family. Good luck in your journey!

Agree, most store bought ones are made in China. A custom made bowl would be ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Commercially made wooden salad bowls are high in arsenic and sulphates.

Is it a little more work to identify a hardwood tree, have it hewn and crafted to your specifications?

Yes, but that way you can get exactly what you want. In any case, it has worked for my family. Good luck in your journey!

Agree, most store bought ones are made in China. A custom made bowl would be ideal.

I got several handmade wooden bowls for my wedding. I thought that was excessive and figured we'd give all but I've away, but we use them all the time for salads, hot bread or rolls (cover with a tea towel), chips, storing fruit that can sit out of the fridge. One may now also be holding Legos and another puzzle pieces. They're really beautiful.

[Anonymous]

Definitely makes the salad so good in my opinion. Especially if you use infused extra virgin olive oil and infused vinegar
Honestly. Ask anyone from Italy

[Anonymous]

The taste from wood salad bowls is rancid oil. They seem unhygenic to me

[Anonymous]

Do you all not use wood cutting boards?

I keep a separate plastic board for meat but cut veggies on fruit on my wood cutting board.

[Anonymous]

Anyone old enough to remember the show Family Affair? (3 orphan kids move from Indiana to live with their bachelor uncle in Manhattan; the uncle has a "gentleman's gentleman" Mr. French who does the cooking)

Kid is watching Mr. French make salad and asks why he is tearing the lettuce instead of cutting it with a knife, and Mr. French tells him the metal knife will bruise the lettuce, whereupon the kid asks why the salad then goes in a metal bowl, to which he has no answer.

Supposedly the metal can react with the acids in the dressing, but that would depend on the metal, and stainless steel is certainly not a problem.

American's Test Kitchen says to clean your wooden bowl in the oven:

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3959-there-is-a-reason-you-should-be-baking-your-wooden-salad-bowl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely makes the salad so good in my opinion. Especially if you use infused extra virgin olive oil and infused vinegar
Honestly. Ask anyone from Italy

Did you really bump a zombie thread to provide this riveting insight?

BTW, I made the "creepy forks" comment. Still stands.