News — colour coded cutting boards

If you cook at home at least 3 or 4 times a week, colour coded chopping boards are helpful but not strictly necessary. What you do need is at least 2 separate cutting boards so raw meat never touches the same surface as ready to eat food, whether those boards are colour coded plastic or natural wood like a 45x35cm bamboo board and a 38x28cm vegetable board. Do you really need colour coded chopping boards at home? In professional kitchens in the UK, colour coded chopping boards are required by food safety guidelines. At home, they are not required by...

In the standard UK kitchen colour code, the chopping board for cooked meat is yellow. If you want to keep your kitchen safe and organised, use a yellow cutting board for cooked meat, and reserve other colours for raw meat, fish, vegetables and bread. Why the cooked meat board is yellow Professional kitchens across the UK follow a widely recognised colour coding system to reduce cross contamination. In this system, cooked meat always goes on a yellow kitchen board. That single rule helps staff instantly see if food is on the right surface. Here is the common colour breakdown used...