The most common cutting board on the market today are made of wood, bamboo, glass and plastic.

Here we briefly introduce the advantages and disadvantages of these cutting boards.

Wooden cutting board:

It is one of the most used cutting boards in our past life.

The advantages are:

1. High density, strong toughness, suitable for chopping meat or cutting hard foods.
2. It feels good to use, sounds nice and enjoyable when cutting and chopping. It doesn’t worn the knife at all and feels safe to use.

The disadvantages of wooden chopping boards are:

1. It is not environmentally friendly. For example, wooden mounds (about 450 mm in diameter) for chopping ribs, each of these chopping board needs to be made from a tree of 30-50 years old. The contribution of the big tree to the earth is self-evident, and it is indeed a pity to use it for cooking.
2. It is easy to chop out the wood dregs in use, mixed into meat dishes to eat into the body, which will damage to health in the long-term. And some wood, such as poplar, is easy to crack and more easily breeding bacteria if used repeatedly.
3. In addition, wooden cutting board used for a long time, cut marks easy to accumulate dirt, not easy to clean, easy to hide dirt, breeding mold, and once you have it, you can’t get rid of it (I’ve been advised to wash and dry it every time I use it, and to use a knife to scrape the mold off, but I’ve done this before and it doesn’t work very well).
4. Because the water absorption of wooden board is strong, not easy to air-dry, if a long time in a humid environment, it is easy to mold, leading to the occurrence of intestinal diseases. Therefore, wooden cutting board in use before the best use of vegetable oil soaked for 2 hours, so not easy to crack.
5. Ordinary wooden board, will absorb the raw materials processing oil and soup, difficult to wash, over time of course will breed a large number of bacteria.
6. As a result of the wooden chopping board type is very many, is not easy to select. When buying a cutting board, be sure to choose assured wood, ginkgo wood, saponin wood, birch or willow made of cutting board is better.

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In short, the wooden cutting board is suitable for cutting fine-cut dishes such as shredded potatoes and chopping meat and bones. Block Wood chopping board is suitable for making bread, noodles, dumplings and other pasta, not so suitable for making cakes and other things that have liquid outflow.

Bamboo cutting board:

Bamboo cutting board is a kind of cutting board after wood cutting board. The bamboo cutting board is lighter than the wooden cutting board, and is not easy to forge. Bamboo cutting board in the purchase of the time to pay attention to see if there is no bamboo on the board of lines, if not, is false.
Advantages of bamboo cutting board:
1. Qualified Bamboo Board should be made of natural plants, material is more solid and not easy to crack or slag, dirt is not easy to be stuffed in the gap, clean, clean up is more convenient. Because Bamboo Board is easy to air-dry, not easy to moldy, produce strange smell.
2.It’s a little harder to cut than a wooden cutting board. You can cut vegetables and cut meat, and it’s less prone to mold.
DISADVANTAGES OF BAMBOO CUTTING BOARD: 1.As a result of the thickness of bamboo cutting board is not enough, more for splicing, not suitable for the use of heavy blows, it is easy to break, so it is best used to cut vegetables or fruit, cut meat is not suitable.
2.Because it’s often spliced together, it tends to crack over time, and it can also breed bacteria. The splicing between the bamboo board by glue, glue contains a large number of carcinogens and formaldehyde.

Glass Cutting Board:

Advantages of glass cutting board:

1.Easy to clean, directly rinse with water after use, no mold.
2.Anti-slip design under the cutting board, it is not easy to move on the operating table.
3.The cutting board does not leak or absorb oil. It is fine to cut fruit or make pancakes.

Disadvantages of Glass Cutting Board:

1. When cutting vegetables, the sound is not pleasant to hear, even some harsh.
2. I was afraid to use it at first. I always felt like I would chop it up.
3. They are very hard to scar with a knife, but imagine what this hard surface is doing to your knives.
4. Slip and you might hurt your hand.
5. It doesn’t feel good when you’re chopping.

PE Plastic cutting board:

With the change of people’s living habits and the progress of science and technology, plastic cutting board has gradually become popular and accepted by more and more people.

ADVANTAGES OF PLASTIC CUTTING BOARDS:

1. Good for the environment. Many families in the purchase of cutting board, the reason for the choice of plastic cutting board. That’s because plastic boards don’t cost as much as other boards. Because in addition to plastic cutting board, basically more common on the market is wood cutting board, wood cutting board raw materials are from trees, a large number of wood cutting board, many trees will be cut down. So now a lot of people use plastic cutting boards.
2.Easy to clean. Now many people in the use of the process of cutting board, will take into account the convenience, because of plastic color board itself material decision, plastic cutting board surface is relatively smooth, after the use is also very convenient to wash. Even after cleaning plastic cutting board with detergent, it is not easy to residue cleaning agent. It can also be washed in a dishwasher.
3. Beautiful shape, rich colors: Pe Material Cutting Board has a variety of colors to choose from, and very easy to distinguish. Especially for some restaurants to use plastic cutting board. if the color is different, in the use of the process is better to distinguish. There are as many as six common cutting board colors in the hotel (also, each cutting board is equipped with a special knife, the color of the handle is the same as the corresponding cutting board to facilitate differentiation).

The general purpose of each colour is:

Red Cutting boards are used for raw meat
Brown Cutting Board for cooked meat
White Cutting Board for dairy products
Blue Cutting Board for Seafood
Green cutting board for fruits and vegetables
Yellow cutting boards are used in poultry

4.They come in all shapes and sizes. Many people use plastic boards these days, and the reason plastic boards are so popular is because they compare to other kinds of boards. The plastic cutting board has a wide variety of styles and a wide range of choices available to people.
5.A big advantage of plastic cutting board is antibacterial, and natural material, compared with its own antibacterial characteristics. Plastic board and wood board, plastic board hardness is relatively large, in the use of the process, not easy to produce scratches and cracks, so the least likely to breed bacteria.
6.The bottom friction force is big, has the strong toughness. It’s not easy to fall off the counter, and even if it does, it won’t break.
7.After the precise processing, the plastic cutting board also has the high density characteristic, can withstand the knife to chop, also can protect the knife very well.
8.Plastic or rubber has a very good corrosion resistance, in the dark and humid or warm environment is not easy to decay.
9. Strong, strong and durable, use, the case of the chip is also less.

DISADVANTAGES OF PLASTIC CUTTING BOARDS:

1. Afraid of the heat. There are a lot of people think plastic cutting board is not good, is because plastic cutting board in the use of the process more afraid of high temperature. Plastic cutting boards are particularly prone to deformation if they are exposed to high temperatures for long periods of time, and it can be difficult to return them to their original state once they are deformed.
2. Some of the texture of the rough plastic cutting board, it is easy to cut out the slag foam, with food into the human body, will cause liver, kidney damage. So here also reminds everybody, must choose when buying high-quality plastic cutting board. The quality of UHMWPE and HDPE chopping board is obviously higher than that of LDPE chopping board, of course, the price is also much higher. KIRIDOR’s cutting boards use UHWM and HDPE, and are pure, not recycled, FDA approved food grade materials.

and the reason plastic boards are so popular is because they compare to other kinds of boards. The plastic cutting board has a wide variety of styles and a wide range of choices available to people.
5.A big advantage of plastic cutting board is antibacterial, and natural material, compared with its own antibacterial characteristics. Plastic board and wood board, plastic board hardness is relatively large, in the use of the process, not easy to produce scratches and cracks, so the least likely to breed bacteria.
6.The bottom friction force is big, has the strong toughness. It’s not easy to fall off the counter, and even if it does, it won’t break.
7.After the precise processing, the plastic cutting board also has the high density characteristic, can withstand the knife to chop, also can protect the knife very well.
8.Plastic or rubber has a very good corrosion resistance, in the dark and humid or warm environment is not easy to decay.
9. Strong, strong and durable, use, the case of the chip is also less.

Here is also a brief introduction to the purchase of plastic cutting boards:

1. First, look at the color of plastic cutting board, the best choice is the color is translucent, good quality, color is very uniform, and no impurities and strong pungent smell of plastic cutting board, such as PP plastic board and pure HDPE board. If the color of plastic cutting board is found to be dark, then it is likely to be made of waste plastic, may contain a lot of harmful substances. 2.Second, feel the texture of the plastic cutting board. If the plastic cutting board is relatively rough, so it is easy to cut out the slag, once into the human body with food, may be more liver, kidney and other internal organs caused harm.
KIRIDOR’s cutting boards use UHWM and HDPE, and are pure, not recycled, FDA approved food grade materials.
3.Cutting board selection must not be greedy for cheap, cutting board and our food every day is close contact, cutting board is not healthy, equals to food is not healthy, with moldy cutting board, equals to eat moldy food.
4.It is recommended to keep at least two chopping boards at home, one for cutting meat and one for cutting vegetables, to avoid cross contamination.

Cleaning and disinfection of plastic cutting boards:

Plastic board disinfection methods are as follows: Sunshine Disinfection, hot disinfection, salt disinfection, ginger and onion disinfection, vinegar disinfection, chemical disinfection and so on. These methods can not only kill poison and play a clean cutting board effect, and even remove the cutting board on the various fishy smell and the smell of vegetables.
1. UV Disinfection, put the board in the Sun for more than 30 minutes, this can not only kill bacteria, but also can make the board dry, reduce the proliferation of bacteria.
2.Wash hot disinfection, first with a hard brush and water to clean the board surface and gaps, and then wash again with 100 °C of boiling water.
3.SPRINKLE salt disinfection, every time after the use of cutting board, must use a knife to scrape the residue on the board every 6-7 days in a layer of salt on the board. So as to not only kill bacteria, but also to prevent the board dry crack.
4.SCALLION and Ginger disinfection, cutting board with a long time, will produce a strange smell. With raw scallion or ginger will be wiped across the board, and then with hot water, while scrubbing with a brush, the strange smell will disappear.
5.Vinegar disinfection, cut fish, meat cutting board, as long as sprinkle a little vinegar, put in the sun to dry, and then wash with water, there will be no fishy smell.
6.Chemical Disinfection, a kilogram of water into the 50 ml of bromogeramine soaking board about 15 minutes, and then rinse with water.
Notes on using PE cutting board:
1.When using plastic cutting boards, it is generally best not to cut cooked food that is very hot or too hot.
2.After each use, to use 50 to 60 °C of hot water for washing, after washing it in a cool place to dry.
3.When placing it, it should be placed vertically or hanged. It is best not to put it close to the wall or lay it flat. If this may result in no ventilation on one side, it will easily lead to the growth of pathogenic bacteria such as mold, thus affecting food safety.