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Sanitize Wooden and Bamboo Cutting Boards
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Wooden & Bamboo cutting boards are the best for your knives. They give just enough so as not to bend the edges of your blade, but they also harbor bacteria the easiest. What do you do? Well here is the method that has been used for ages, or at least since bleach has been around.
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emkeane said
on 5/10/2008 I hardly know where to begin with this long response. I hope this helps.
When I was an undergraduate (molecular biology/biochemistry) I worked for 18 months at the McArdle Oncology Research laboratories in Madison, WI. The facility offered graduate student and professorial presentations as parts of the curriculum and these were open to anyone who was interested in learning about the work being done. One day we had a presentation from a senior research professor who was investigating the claims of the chemical industry, whose companies claimed that plastic and other synthetic cutting boards were far superior to wood and other natural substances for their ability to be cleaned and sterilized. He thought this remarkable if not amazing, so he started a literature search and found that there were no such existent references, so he started to do his own experimental investigation. We were t
emkeane said
on 5/10/2008 I hardly know where to begin with this long response. I hope this helps.
When I was an undergraduate (molecular biology/biochemistry) I worked for 18 months at the McArdle Oncology Research laboratories in Madison, WI. The facility offered graduate student and professorial presentations as parts of the curriculum and these were open to anyone who was interested in learning about the work being done. One day we had a presentation from a senior research professor who was investigating the claims of the chemical industry, whose companies claimed that plastic and other synthetic cutting boards were far superior to wood and other natural substances for their ability to be cleaned and sterilized. He thought this remarkable if not amazing, so he started a literature search and found that there were no such existent references, so he started to do his own experimental investigation. We were t
chava812 said
on 5/9/2008 Great write-up on how to sanitize the board with bleach (the way the MDs in the family recommend) - I hadn't seen detailed instructions on this before. Thanks for sharing!!!
pianistic said
on 5/9/2008 Doesn't this make the wood swell by letting it sit in the water?
GardenGuru said
on 5/7/2008 Thank you for all the wonderful insightful research on the different theories for sanitization. It is true that bleach is one of the more synthetic methods, but again I will posture a question for all of those who have taken the time to challenge this method. All these natural sources may in fact sanitize, in fact I agree with those who espouse the citrus variety of cleaners. The fact is however that that does not take into effect the possibility of food allergies. Bleach is hypo-allergenic... Can you say the same for the rest?