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Wooden Utensil Gluten Porous Risk
Wooden utensil gluten porous risk: spoons and boards trap wheat flour in pores—use dedicated non-porous tools or replace wood items in celiac kitchens.
Wooden utensil gluten porous risk comes from spoons, rolling pins, and cutting boards that absorb wheat flour and sauce into grain pores—releasing gluten into otherwise GF stir-fries when you cannot boil-sanitize wood. Plastic or metal dedicated tools beat shared wooden spoons in mixed kitchens.
Replace deeply scored boards instead of sanding alone. Colanders with pasta starch are equally high risk.
Common questions
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Can you clean wooden spoons for celiac reuse?
Washing helps but porous grain often retains gluten. Many celiac households retire wood used with wheat or reserve one never-wheat board and spoon set.
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