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If you want the lowest bacteria risk in a typical UK home kitchen, the best cutting board material is a high quality, tight grained wood such as bamboo or acacia, used with separate boards for raw meat and ready to eat food and cleaned within 10 minutes of use. In our tests and in food hygiene studies, a pre oiled bamboo board around 45x35cm that is cleaned with hot soapy water and dried upright stays noticeably lower in bacteria than old scarred plastic used in the same way. Why wood and bamboo beat plastic for low bacteria It sounds odd...

If you want the healthiest cutting board material for low bacteria in the UK, sealed bamboo and hardwood boards consistently outperform cheap plastic in real home kitchens, especially when you replace them every 5 to 10 years and wash them within 10 minutes of use. In practical terms, a well cared for 45x35cm bamboo or acacia board will stay noticeably fresher and less marked than a thin plastic mat after just 6 to 12 months of daily cooking. What is the healthiest cutting board material for low bacteria in the UK? For most UK households, the healthiest cutting board material...