News — kitchen boards for hygiene

If you care about hygiene, a high quality wooden chopping board that you clean within 10 minutes of use and dry upright is usually safer long term than a plastic board that’s deeply scarred with knife marks. Studies have shown that bacteria on wood can drop by over 90% within a few hours as moisture is drawn into the fibres, while old plastic boards often trap bacteria in cuts that are hard to scrub clean. Wooden vs plastic chopping boards for hygiene: the short answer If you want the most hygienic option over 5 to 10 years of daily cooking,...