OS Cleaning Tips and Quick Questions...

x_Bunny_x

Hi

Well my plastic chopping board has seen better days. I went to buy a new one but for some reason they are super tiny or glass or wood or very cheap looking.

I usually wash it in very hot water and a squirt of washing up liquid and give it a scrub with a sponge scourer.

Its ready for the bin honestly speaking with you.

I read to use bleach to clean it but to me bleach and chopping boards seem dangerous!. I also read Flash spray can be used?. Again i though bleach and flash was to be kept away from food.

How about something natural like lemon juice?.

BitterAndTwisted

There's nothing wrong with using bleach as long as the item is rinsed off properly. I agree with you, plastic chopping-boards can end up looking gruesome, most especially if you cut tomatoes on them.

Glass chopping-board are only good for one thing and that's making your precious knives as blunt as a blunt thing. I hate the sound when you use them as well, it puts my teeth right on edge. Now, wooden chopping-boards are the best. The wood contains the natural antiseptics the trees make to protect themselves from germs and mould spores so don't need to be disinfected, just given a good scrub with a scourer now and then.

sheldon08

I use sterilising fluid on mine. I stand it in the sink, pour some on, brush it into the deepest knife scores and leave for about 10mins before rinsing thoroughly.

Verbatim

I always find cream cleanser, 38p ish from Sainsbuy's Basics, is very good and worked a treat on the 6 years of dust and grease on the top of my cupboards. The more expensive jiff stuff would work the same way. and Tesco has a value one too I think.

babyshoes

I find a hot wash in the diswasher generally works for mine. If there are any really manky looking areas I give them a good scrub with a scourer first.

faerie~spangles

Mine go in the dishwasher. Prior to having that wonderful household device I bleached my chopping boards.

x_Bunny_x

Ok, thank you

I don't have a dishwasher, i think i'll have a look at the sterilising fluid idea to see if it gets rid of stains, and the wooden board sound good too

Kirri

I'd rather have a slightly food stained chopping board than use some harsh chemical like bleach on it!

I just stick mine in the dishwasher. If I didn't have one, it would just get as clean as it could with washing up liquid and I don't use harsh ones of those either.

Stephen_Leak

Plastic chopping boards don't last forever.

IKEA do very good ones for just 99p. But they only do them in white, though. They used to do a red one, which I keep for fresh meat only.

I've suggested that they also do them in red again, plus blue, yellow, brown and green, which are the colours you'd find in a commercial kitchen.

zee_2

scour with salt and wash off .