Each hostess uses cutting board daily. On it bread is cut, vegetables are sliced, meat settles accounts. To choose cutting board which will be convenient and hygienic it is necessary to pay attention to material, the size and form.
Instruction
1. Choosing cutting board, first of all, pay attention to material of which it is made. Hygienic product characteristics depend on it. Now cutting boards make most often of tree, plastic or glass. The tree is natural and eco-friendly material. However wooden cutting boards, as a rule, spoil over time under the influence of moisture. They crack, deformed, on them there are roughnesses, there are traces from knives. If not to wash wooden cutting boards very thoroughly, in slots there can be parts of products. The tree also well absorbs smells. Plastic cutting boards have left from wooden boards not really far. Having chosen made of this material, you do not receive strong deformations, your board will not deteriorate under the influence of water. However traces from knives and also roughnesses appear practically on all plastic boards over time. Besides, plastic can change color over time, darken. Now it is fashionable to buy glass cutting boards which, as a rule, have attractive exterior. At glass cutting boards the best hygienic characteristics. Besides, they are most durable. On glass cutting boards there is no trace left from knife, they smooth, are not deformed over time, do not spoil under the influence of moisture, it is easy to wash them.
2. Choosing form of cutting board, consider that board square or rectangular shape, the having special handle or "eyelet", it will be convenient to hang up on hook. Such storage technique will not demand a lot of place (regardless of the sizes of cutting board). Round chopping boards have similar devices less often to hang up them on wall. Cutting boards can be supplied with special tiny legs from the rubberized material. Such legs provide them the best coupling with table surface, excepting sliding of board on surface.
3. Choosing cutting board, consider that boards of the big size will be heavy to be washed in small sinks. And on small it is impossible to process large number of products or large products that gives some inconvenience. It is reasonable to buy two-three boards of the different size. For daily needs it is convenient to use cutting board of the small size as it is easier to wash it. For cutting of large products get product of the big size.