cutting board blotchy after seasoning with mineral oil

[marilyna]

I just bought an end grain acacia cutting board from William Sonoma and seasoned it with mineral oil. It has a blotchy appearance now after seasoning it. Anyone else have this problem?

[Chemicalkinetics]

Are you talking about mineral oil stain. Our friend TraderJoe has a take on stain:

"Mineral deposits form in damaged areas of the wood..."

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/8574...

[scubadoo97]

as the oil soaks in the blotchy appearance may disappear. Keep oiling it. You may want to apply some bees wax after it's taken a fair amount of oil.

[marilyna]

Thanks. Do you know what caused the blotching? And why beeswax?

[EWSflash]

Uneven uptake. Just keep doi9ng it. The beeswax helps keep the oil in the wood

[marilyna]

Thanks