Are inseparable from each kitchen cutting board, but in the material selection, should be preferred bamboo.
The current common market are bamboo cutting boards, wood and plastic, but "qualified natural plant bamboo cutting board should be made of material is more firm, and not easy to crack, or dregs, dirt can not easily be stuffed in the cracks , relatively clean, clean up and more convenient. "bamboo cutting board is easy due to air-dry, not easy to mold, odor, is a good choice. The only drawback is, bamboo cutting board is not enough because the thickness, mostly for splicing, can not withstand the blow use, so it is best used for cutting vegetables or fruit, chop the meat is not suitable.
Wooden cutting board material is very thick, strong toughness, more suitable for chopping meat or cut some of the hard food. But in use, easy to cut out of wood residue, mixed in the meat dishes to eat into the body, the long run harmful to health. In addition, wood cutting board with a long time, cut marks easy savings dirt and difficult to clean, and some wood, such as the Aspen itself is easy to crack, and then re-use, more likely to breed bacteria. Due to wood cutting boards absorbent, easy to dry, if a long time in the humid environment, it is easy to mold, resulting in intestinal diseases. "Therefore, the best wood cutting board with vegetable oil before use soak two hours, this is not easy to crack." Purchase cutting board must be selected when assured of wood, ginkgo trees, honey locust, birch or willow dishes made of board better.
"Plastic cutting board and more to polypropylene, polyethylene, etc. are made, not suitable for large cut some fat foods, or not clean." Plastic cutting board is not high temperature, hot stuff on top cut, it is easily deformed. Some cutting boards contain lead, cadmium, plasticizers, long-term use or even the risk of cancer; and some textured plastic cutting board, also easy to cut out Unqualified, with the food into the body, the liver and kidney damage.
Whatever the cutting board, should be promptly cleaned after use, hang suspended vertically in a well ventilated place, let it dry. It does not matter or flat wall-place, or less than dry the other side, it is easy to breed mold. When cleaning, use a hard scrub brush dipped in detergent, then rinse with water repeatedly, scalded with boiling water wash can also be able to play a bactericidal effect.
