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The difference between wooden and plastic cutting boards

Hygiene of the wood and plastic cutting boards


There is a belief fed by producers that in comparing with non-wood cutting boards the wood ones creates a positive environment for generation of bacteria and germs. But for a hundred or maybe thousand years people use wooden utensils in cookery and the reason of it not only cheapness and availability of wood.

Recent studies led in Danish Technological Institute show and leading German, Sweden and Finland research institutes affirm absolutely contrary information - anti-bacterial properties of the wooden utensils are better than of utensils made of other materials.

In the laboratory examinations:
  • Inoculated harmless bacteria into different wood species (oak, pine, Norway spruce, beech and ash), plasitc and steel. 
  • These bacteria are in many ways similar to the feared bacteria Salmonella, Camphylobacter and Listeria. 
  • Then the survival time for bacteria was measured.
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There are some study findings:
  1. Bacteria have essentially poorer life conditions on wood compared with synthetic materials and steel;
  2. Bacteria have poor life conditions on wood, especially dry wood.

Here is the examinations result:
Source: http://www.kitchensource.com/cutting-boards/pdf/chopblockhygiene.pdf

Similar study was conducted in the University of Wisconsin-Madison called “Wood cutting boards, not plastic, are safer for food preparation”.

For decades now, cooks in homes and restaurants have been urged to use plastic rather than wood cutting boards in the name of food safety. The fear is that disease-causing bacteria, e.g. salmonella, from raw chicken will soak into a cutting board and later contaminate other foods cut on the same surface and served uncooked, such as salad ingredients etc.

Dean O. Cliver and Nese O. Ak, food microbiologists in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, have found that in some as yet unknown way wooden cutting boards kill bacteria that survive well on plastic boards. “Our original objectives were to learn about bacterial contamination of wood cutting boards and to find a way to decontaminate the wood so it would be almost as safe as plastic. That's not what happened!” says Cliver.

Source: http://www.kitchensource.com/kitchen-islands/pdf/woodvsplastic.pdf
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