News — best cutting board material for hygiene

If you care about food safety, the best cutting board material for hygiene in everyday home kitchens is high quality bamboo, used on separate boards for raw meat and ready to eat foods, cleaned in hot soapy water within 15 minutes of use and replaced every 5 to 10 years depending on wear. In our own tests at Deer & Oak, Moso bamboo boards with a hardness of around 1,380 lbf and a thickness of 1.8 to 2.0 cm picked up fewer deep knife grooves than softer woods, which helps reduce places where bacteria can hide. What makes a cutting...