News — food prep safety

If you want to know whether bamboo is safer than plastic for food prep, the short answer is: yes, high quality moso bamboo boards are generally safer and more kitchen friendly than plastic boards, because they shed fewer microplastics, are naturally harder at around 1,380 lbf on the Janka scale, and typically last 5 to 10 years with simple oiling, compared with around 2 to 3 years for many plastic boards. Is bamboo safer than plastic for food prep? When you chop on plastic, every knife stroke can create tiny plastic shavings. Some are visible, many are not. Over a...