The Breadly™ Care Kit
Balm + Polishing Cloth
Made For The Breadly
Works On All Kitchen Wood
The Breadly Care Kit is a tin of wood balm and a microfibre polishing cloth: everything needed to keep the beech frame of your Breadly rich, sealed and smooth for as long as you own it.
It is the same balm every other piece of untreated wood in your kitchen wants, so one tin looks after the knife, the boards, the spoons and the bowls alike.
One tin of Breadly wood balm, and one microfibre polishing cloth with a soft weave that will not scratch the beech or leave lint in the grain.
The cloth has two jobs. The looser side carries the balm into the wood. The flatter side buffs it back to a satin finish. Wash it and reuse it, indefinitely.
1. Make sure the frame is clean and completely dry.
2. Take a small amount of balm on the cloth. Less than you think.
3. Work it along the grain, over the frame and the handle, until the wood stops absorbing it.
4. Leave it twenty minutes.
5. Buff it off with the dry side of the cloth.
Avoid the blade. The balm is for the wood.
There is no fixed schedule, because it depends entirely on how hard the piece works and how often it meets water.
Use the wood itself as the gauge. Put a drop of water on the frame. If it beads and sits on the surface, the seal is intact. If it darkens and soaks in, it is ready for another treatment.
A knife that gets wiped rather than washed will go a long time. One washed after every loaf, or kept in a dry winter kitchen, will ask sooner. Cutting boards, wooden spoons and salad bowls get washed far more than a knife ever does, and ask soonest of all.
Treating wood more often than it strictly needs does it no harm at all. Letting it go dry does.
Anything untreated wood in the kitchen. It is the same balm a cutting board wants.
Wooden cutting boards, wooden spoons and utensil sets, salad bowls, rolling pins, wooden handles of every kind. The routine is identical: on along the grain, twenty minutes, buff back.
Boards work harder than knives and get washed far more, so most people treat a board every month or two.
Try it for sixty days. If it does not do what we have said it does, we will refund you in full and you will not need to send it back. No restocking fee, no hassle.
WHY YOUR BREADLY NEEDS THIS
Beech Is Thirsty, And Nobody Tells You
Solid wood loses moisture every time it is washed and every time it meets steam off a hot loaf. It happens slowly enough that you never catch it happening. Then the frame is pale, dry and faintly rough, and it feels like the knife got old. It did not. It just got thirsty.
Balm, Not A Bottle Of Loose Oil
Oil alone soaks in and keeps going, so you are back a month later. A balm carries the oil into the grain and then closes the surface behind it with wax. The moisture goes in and stays in, and water stays out.
You Can Watch It Work
Put a drop of water on an untreated frame and it darkens and soaks in. Do the same after a treatment and it sits on the surface in a bead. That bead is the seal. When it stops beading, the wood is asking for another two minutes.
Wood Does Not Stay New On Its Own.
Your Breadly is beech. Not coated, not laminated, not sealed under plastic. Solid wood, shaped and sanded, exactly the way the Nordic bow knives it descends from were made.
That is why it feels the way it does in your hand. It is also why it needs you.
Every wash pulls moisture out of the grain. So does the steam off a hot loaf, and the dry air of a kitchen in winter. It happens slowly enough that you do not notice it happening, and then one day you pick the knife up and the wood is pale, a little chalky, and faintly rough where it used to be smooth.
Nothing has gone wrong. The wood is just thirsty.
Two minutes with the balm puts back what the kitchen took out. The colour deepens, the grain closes, and the handle goes back to feeling like the one you unwrapped.
The Wood Will Tell You When.
Open the tin. A little balm on the cloth, less than you think. Work it along the grain until the wood stops taking it. Twenty minutes, then buff it back with the dry side.
Then test it. Put a drop of water on the frame. If it sits up in a bead, the seal is holding. If it darkens and sinks in, the wood is asking.
How often depends entirely on how hard the piece works. A Breadly that slices a loaf on Sundays will go a long while. One that is washed after every use, or lives in a dry kitchen through winter, will ask sooner. A cutting board, washed almost daily, asks soonest of all.
Treating wood more often than it strictly needs does it no harm. Letting it go dry does.
Four ingredients. Nothing you cannot pronounce.
Wood balm is a simple thing, and it should be. Ours is four ingredients, warmed together and poured into the tin.
The full ingredient list is printed on the base of every tin. For external use on wood only.
The Earthy Bliss Guarantee
Treat your Breadly once. If the wood does not come back richer, smoother and better in the hand than it was before, tell us and we will refund you in full. You will not need to send the tin back.
Sixty days, no forms, no restocking fee.
The Breadly™ Care Kit
$29.95