Are Wooden Rolling pins obsolete?!

Are Wooden Rolling pins obsolete?

In this day and age of the fear of cross contamination how does one "clean" (steralize) a wooden rolling pin.
"When cleaning the surface of the pins, do not bathe the pin in great amounts of water, which only serves to add unnecessary moisture to the wood. Instead, use a damp cloth or a dough scraper to remove unwanted materials" is what the experts say, but does that remove all the particulates, i.e. raw egg from the pin? I do have several pins that are not wood but I'm focusing only on that particular tool. Obsolete? or not?

1 day ago
Thank You MikeL for your educated answer. When making some dough products, egg is one of the key binding ingredients. Thanks again.

No Steve, I certainly don't think they're obsolete: I have an arsenal of pins, wood and steel, each chosen as best of breed for a specific job. Similarly, my boards are both wood and marble, depending on the job in hand.

What I do believe should be obsolete are pins with static handles and revolving barrels, of any type of material. Those are genuinely impossible to get properly clean, even if they can be disassembled: too many nooks and crannies.

As for clean down, the dedicated board scraper (it's not used for anything else) for all wooden surfaces after each use during the day and finally, at the day's end, a rub down with a disposable cloth moistened with food service sterilising fluid, which, of course, isn't found living in too many domestic kitchens <g>, so you could replace it with a dilution of 1 part of 3.5% chlorine bleach to 6 parts of water (or 1 part of 5% chlorine bleach to 9 of water), for example. The endless scraping down during the day precludes any build up of things you don't care for, and the scraper, assuming it's a good one, gets more off than any other implement can, and it's as quick as it is thorough.

'Wet' washing is another story altogether: soggy wooden surfaces provide a moist environment for some considerable period of time while drying which does the wood no favours and gives any possible contamination a lovely environment to thrive. Not good on both counts... :-)

(Pet peeve: synthetic pins and rolling boards of any kind, so we won't go there... <gg>)