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All done! Thanks for all the advice - long hours sanding (carefully around the sink ) and then a couple of light coats of Trip Trap white worktop oil and then 4 coats of Tung oil applied over two days - as Oilman suggested. Water spills and anything else just beads and floats on the top. It will...

Thank you brad for the advice unfortunately we live in a flat on the top floor - no outside space except for windy balcony! So sanding in situ is what I have to do - and yes it's a nightmare!

Thank you very much for the advice - I think if we can't sand all the orange dye out I may go darker maybe use a walnut dye then use tung oil but definitely tung oil from now on!

sorry sorry I meant water based white DYE not oil!

We recently installed oak wooden worktops and stupidly used the danish oil purchased from the supplier. It had a pigment in the oil and they are now not so much enhanced white oak as my dad's creosoted shed. I've sanded back ( 100 then 150 then 250) but it seems to have really permeated the wood...