The Wooden Stick

As the official (but not sole) scrubber of dishes in the family, one of my tasks is to keep track of which kitchen tools my wife is using most. That item has turned out to be a wooden stick that she insists not be put in the dishwasher, which I use as a rinser. This stick is shaped vaguely like a giant spoon. I typically wash by hand, then rinse in the machine. My wife insists that her wooden stick would be damaged if rinsed in hot water. I have to set it aside and eventually rinse the stick by hand in hot water. (I keep remembering when we were living and working on Long Island, where we had a fireplace.)