What material is the chopping board good?
In the past, we used a lot of wooden cutting boards, each region has a common tree species, choose hard and solid trees, make a chopping block, can use for many years. Bamboo chopping boards are also common. Plastic cutting boards are industrial products. Good plastic chopping boards are durable, clean and very good. Next, let's talk about the characteristics of these three kinds of chopping boards, which is convenient for you to choose.
A wood block is a good chopping block
Useful wooden block boards: once used wooden boards are becoming more and more distant from our ordinary kitchen as the resources of the trees dried up. In some chef's kitchen, as well as a good wooden chopping board figure, accompanied by professional chefs around, but also as it is. As a matter of fact, wood cutting boards are good for cutting boards. Food on wooden chopping boards does not deteriorate easily, nor does it dehydrate or keep fresh. The thick solid wood chopping, very tough to hold a knife, the knife can rebound in natural wood chopping board, which can use knife and meticulous work, cut meat or hard food, not to hurt the knife does not destroy the food fiber, cook, strength.
Wooden cutting board maintenance is not easy: wooden cutting board is not easy to maintain, use it sparingly. Brine should be soaked for a long time before use, so it won't crack. After each use, clean with water, and dry naturally. After use for a period of time, then use brine immersion maintenance. Wash the wood chopping block along the grain direction from the top down, brushing the entire surface, then rinse with warm water, do not use heat bowl drying machine drying, because the wood in the thermal expansion between the changes of contraction may lead to damage, shorten the service life.
Bamboo chopping boards are more durable
The bamboo chopping board is the selection of natural bamboo, the high temperature and high pressure processing, has the advantages of no cracking, no deformation, wear resistance, hardness, good toughness, etc.. It is light, sanitary and fragrant. From the angle of traditional Chinese medicine, bamboo is sweet and cold, and has a certain inhibitory effect on bacterial reproduction. So, cut cooked, bamboo chopping board is an ideal choice. The bamboo chopping board in want of perfection, because the thickness is not enough, and more for the stitching, use not so good for a vegetable or fruit or cooked food, meat is not suitable for. Bamboo is hard, when cutting knife "fee".
Plastic cutting board, good maintenance
The plastic cutting board is divided into two kinds, one is PE material and one is PP material. The characteristics of PE material are: chopping block can be presented in a variety of colors, thick layered cutting boards made of some relative price; while the PP material density is higher than PE, are integrally molded (non hierarchical), only a white color, than the price of PE material is also much more expensive.
Plastic cutting board of high strength, durable, such as pork chops with "chopping board", the thickness of 30-60mm is more appropriate to eat ribs two times weekly, such a piece of plastic cutting board can use more than 15 years. One of the plastic board is antibacterial, compared with natural material, it has antibacterial characteristics, and because of its high hardness, not easy to scratch, no gap, so it is not easy to breed bacteria; at the same time, it also has the characteristics of easy cleaning, can use boiling water to wash, cleaning and detergent are also available. After washing the residue is not easy. At the same time, it can also be dishwasher clean.