After dressing I wipe the wooden salad bowl dry and leave it open, I don’t soak it overnight

The leaves are already on the plates — and the wooden salad bowl still has a film of vinegar and oil. Easy to flood it with water “it’ll soak itself clean”: by morning the wood has swollen, it smells sour, and on the next salad the taste is wrong. I wipe it dry at once with a soft cloth and leave it open — the wood breathes, it doesn’t soak overnight in the sink.

After dressing I wipe the wooden salad bowl dry and leave it open, I don’t soak it overnight. Drying the leaves is another note; the salad spinner its own; the mixing bowl after batter another story. Here it’s the wooden salad bowl after the table: wiped, open — not soaked overnight.

If dressing has already sunk in — only warm water and straight to dry, not a night in the sink. I don’t dry it on the radiator until it cracks. I’m not shopping for a new bowl with a review in this note — it’s about the one that already tossed today’s salad.

I don’t need a bowl that soaked overnight from “it’ll soak itself”. I need a dry rim I’m not ashamed to tip fresh leaves into. At yours is the wooden salad bowl wiped dry — or already soaking in the sink until morning?