Wooden block or plastic block?
Wood cutting boards are better than plastic chopping boards.Wood cutting boards are better than plastic chopping boards. Plastic chopping boards are easy to collect viruses and bacteria. With a lot of family kitchens, the chopping boards are hidden in stuffy cabinets, which is even more damaging to human health. Wooden chopping boards have the ability to fend off bacteria. At the same time, trees that make wooden chopping boards are generally good wood of old age and have antibacterial and antiseptic effects.
Many plastic chopping board to polypropylene, polyethylene and other chemical material, not suitable for cutting food oil, otherwise it is not good for cleaning. The plastic board is not resistant to high temperature, if the temperature of the food on top, it is easy to cause deformation. Even some boards contain lead, cadmium and other plasticizers, long-term use of carcinogenic risk; textured plastic boards, but also easy to cut out pieces, enter the body with food, the damage to the human liver and kidney.
Wood chopping board thickness, strong toughness, suitable for cutting meat or hard food, absorbent, difficult to dry, wet long time cause mildew, caused by intestinal disease. When choosing to birch, willow, locust wood or chopping board made of white fruit good.