Cleaning Wooden Chopping Board

kingmonkey

Freezing doesn't kill bacteria as well as heat and chemical agents.

simranpatel

woodenchopping board are good but they are hard to wash and give a bed smells ..i use beach powder to wash them

LoveLifeAgain

Hello,


A very interesting thread and all methods mentioned sound good for cleaning, just individual taste.


I have a good (expensive at the time) thick wooden board too and sprinkle salt on, use two lemon halves and scrub, rinse then pour boiling water over whilst in the sink and it is still doing well after 20+ years.


I don't fancy plastic and don't know why, have tried glass but as others have said it played havoc with my knives.

Slinky

Goodness knows why this 9 year old thread has been dug up....

GreyQueen

I only ever use wooden chopping boards. I have three, different sizes and shapes, and I only chop raw meat on one size of one of them of them - I'd carve cooked meat on the other side.

As soon as I'm finished with a chopping board, I put a squirt of w.u.l on it, give it quick scrub with a dishwashing brush under a running hot tap and rinse and stand upright to air dry.

Wood has anti-bacterial properties unlike those nasty-looking plastic ones. Plus, it's renewable resource. My oldest chopping board is actually a bread board (I don't eat bread) and it was already ancient in my mother's 1950s childhood.

I might get an upset tummy about once a decade, if that, and I don't appear to have poisoned anyone I've ever fed, either.;)