News — UK kitchen hygiene

In UK kitchens, the recommended colour chopping board for raw poultry is yellow, following the standard colour coded food safety system used in professional kitchens. Use a yellow cutting board only for raw chicken, turkey, duck and other poultry, then clean and disinfect it thoroughly after every use. UK colour codes for chopping boards in the kitchen If you want your home kitchen to follow the same food hygiene logic as a commercial kitchen, you can copy the common UK colour code system: Yellow chopping board – raw poultry (chicken, turkey, duck) Red chopping board – raw red meat (beef,...

If you want a bamboo board that stays safer from bacteria, the top choice in the UK is a dense, closed-grain Moso bamboo board that you clean within 10 minutes of use and oil every 4 to 6 weeks. In practice, a board like the Deer & Oak Large Bamboo Board (45x35 cm, 1.8 kg Moso bamboo) gives you enough space to separate raw meat and veg, while the naturally low porosity of Moso bamboo helps limit bacterial growth when you care for it properly. Why Moso bamboo boards are safer from bacteria Not all bamboo is equal. For kitchen...

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 clean them properly, quality bamboo chopping boards are hygienic in the UK and can safely last 5 to 10 years. The key is choosing dense Moso bamboo, using separate boards for raw meat and ready to eat food, and washing within 10 minutes of use so bacteria do not have time to multiply. Are bamboo chopping boards hygienic in a UK kitchen? Yes, bamboo chopping boards are hygienic in UK kitchens when they are made from dense Moso bamboo and cared for correctly. Studies comparing wooden, bamboo and plastic boards show that bacteria numbers can drop by over...