The chopping board for cutting vegetables or fruits can be made of bamboo or plastic.
Bamboo chopping board is suitable for cutting vegetables and fruits because it dries quickly and is not easy to mildew and stink. Because ordinary bamboo chopping boards are not thick enough to withstand heavy blows, they are not suitable for chopping meat.
Plastic chopping boards are light and durable, easy to clean, and will not lose sawdust like wooden chopping boards. The safer plastics are polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene.
No matter what kind of cutting board it is, it should be cleaned in time after use and hung vertically in a ventilated place to dry. Don't stick it to the wall or lay it flat, otherwise the other side won't dry, which is easy to breed mold. When cleaning, you can scrub it with a hard brush dipped in detergent, then rinse it repeatedly with clear water, or scald it with boiling water, which can play a bactericidal role.
Advantages and disadvantages of chopping boards made of different materials
1, plastic chopping block: light weight, easy to carry, mostly made of polypropylene, polyethylene, etc. It is not suitable to cut some greasy food, otherwise it is not easy to clean. And is not resistant to high temperature and easy to deform. Some chopping boards contain plasticizers such as lead and cadmium, which may even cause cancer after long-term use. However, some rough plastic chopping boards are easy to be cut into pieces and enter the body with food, causing damage to liver and kidney.
Some dark plastic cutting boards are mostly made of waste plastics, and there are many harmful substances. Therefore, it is best to choose a plastic cutting board with translucent color, good quality, uniform color, no impurities and pungent smell.
2. Bamboo chopping block: high-quality bamboo chopping block is not easy to deform and crack after high temperature and high pressure treatment, with good toughness, wear resistance, convenient carrying, sanitation and environmental protection. Moreover, bamboo itself is not easy to breed bacteria, which is beneficial to human health and relatively safe to use.
However, bamboo chopping boards are light in weight, low in density and not thick enough, and they are mostly spliced and cannot withstand heavy blows. Most bamboo chopping boards in the market are glued together and then pressed together, but this will cause cracks between bamboo boards to breed bacteria easily.
3. Wooden chopping block: The wooden chopping block has high density, good toughness and is relatively firm. The food on the wooden chopping board has good fresh-keeping effect, and it is not easy to deteriorate and the water is not easy to lose. It's easier to cut things on a wooden chopping board with your own knife. When the knife is ready, it will naturally rebound on the wooden chopping board.
But the choice of wooden chopping board should also choose high-quality wooden chopping board. Avoid using ebony as a chopping block, because ebony contains peculiar smell and toxic substances. Using it as a chopping block not only pollutes dishes, but also easily causes vomiting, dizziness and abdominal pain. The preferred wood for chopping block is ginkgo, acacia, birch and willow.
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