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Wood or plastic cutting board for meat.
Originally published in the feb.
Ultimately whether you use wood or plastic the best method for ensuring safety is to use separate cutting boards for raw meat and poultry and for your vegetables fruit and prepared food.
This limits cross contamination which is the biggest danger of all.
A quality wooden cutting board has all the hallmarks of quality woodwork no obvious flaws and a fine finish.
Both wooden and plastic cutting boards can be sanitized with a solution of 1 tablespoon of unscented liquid chlorine bleach per gallon of water.
Ehos environmental health officers the food safety people pushed everyone into using plastic cutting boards instead of wood cutting boards because it was perceived as being more hygienic and easier to clean.
6 1993 edition of science news a fascinating article on cutting boards describes research claiming that wooden cutting boards possess some sort of bacteria killing properties thus making them less likely to contaminate food than plastic or acrylic cutting boards pathogens prefer plastic the article declares.
You shouldn t put them in the dishwasher nor should you leave them to soak since extended exposure to water and high heat will pretty much guarantee a short life for the board.
Have one board for raw meat fish and poultry says sana mujahid ph d manager of food safety research at cr.
Plastic is ideal for handling uncooked meat because it s easy to sanitize and generally dishwasher safe.
More work to clean.
The thinking was that as plastic is new and wood is old school a plastic board must be better.
Plastic cutting boards are your best bet for carving meat models like this one from dexas are dishwasher safe so you can use high heat sanitization to prevent raw meat contamination.
To clean a plastic cutting board simply throw it in your dishwasher or wash with dish soap and water by hand you can also use a solution of a tablespoon of bleach per gallon of water to sanitize.
If you go that route you want to.
To clean a wooden cutting board warm water and soap work best.
First use at least two cutting boards to avoid cross contamination.
Wooden cutting boards are more difficult to clean than plastic too.