Among the housewives' cooking utensils, a cutting board is indispensable to cut, chop, and slice a lot of ingredients and food. However, not everyone can understand and do well in the maintenance and use of cutting boards. With a few tips below of WebTech360 will guide specifically how to take care of your cutting board to be durable.
With plastic cutting board.
Plastic cutting board is trusted by many housewives because it has many convenient advantages: waterproof, no rot, no cutting board ... However, this cutting board cannot withstand the impact force. . If you chop the fish, the cutting board may crack and break, making the knife blunt faster. The strong force will create grooves on the cutting board, making it easy to shelter bacteria when you do not clean the cutting board well. So only use plastic cutting boards to slice processed foods, without much force.
With plastic cutting board.
To preserve the cutting board better, when cleaning, you should use vinegar, lemon juice to apply on the cutting board for about 1-2 hours, then rinse thoroughly with dishwashing liquid, then rinse through once more boiling water and let dry. newly stowed cutting boards, helping to prolong the life of the cutting boards.
With wooden cutting board.
With wooden cutting board.
Wood cutting boards are fairly common and are widely used in all kitchens. Cutting board has high elasticity, heavy weight and is suitable for chopping and chopping food. But it also has the disadvantage of absorbing water and odors, quickly warping, humus, cracking, easy to rot. So when buying a wood cutting board, you need to choose a cutting board with a smooth surface, no wood eyes, and the wood must have a uniform thickness, so the cutting board will be more durable and not easily cracked. To minimize bacteria and odors on the cutting board, after using it, you should clean it with white vinegar, pick seeds, hot water thoroughly, dry and then put away the cutting board.
With glass cutting board.
Glass cutting boards with vibrant colors and beautiful colors will adorn the kitchen more vividly. The glass cutting board is made of tempered glass, so it is not humus, oxidized, easy to clean, and resistant to high temperatures. But you should only use a glass cutting board to cut fruits, vegetables, soft foods, processed foods such as boiled meat, roasted meat, sausages, and rolls. Because the hard cutting surface makes the knife dull quickly and it is not suitable for chopping or chopping food. In addition, the smooth cutting surface can cause the knife to slip easily, causing danger to the user.
With glass cutting board.
Before and after using the cutting board, you should wash it thoroughly, rinse it through once and dry it for a while to ensure it is clean and fresh. After a few months when the cutting board surface appears cracked, broken, turns black, it smells strange, you should replace it with a new one.
Hope the above sharing, to partly help you understand more about cleaning and keeping the cutting board durable!