There are some key differences between plastic and wood cutting boards, but even among wood boards, there are benefits and drawbacks. The kind of wood used, as well as the construction of the board, ...

Wood vs. plastic cutting boards: Which one to use is a quandary for many people, especially as we approach the holidays and spend more time in the kitchen. Food safety experts used to warn against ...

Find out the safety benefits and drawbacks of both. If you have a kitchen, and you’re an avid home cook, you probably have one of these: a cutting board. It’s an absolute necessity for food prep, and ...

The debate between wood and plastic cutting boards has been simmering for years, and with Food Safety Education Month upon us, it's the perfect time to revisit the question. Is wood truly better for ...

A cutting board is one of those mundane items you don’t pay much attention to. But you use it almost every day - whether it’s to slice bread, chop vegetables, prepare meat, grate cheese, or anything ...

Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos, tech articles and more for almost two decades. She currently writes for CNET's Smart Home Section, MTVNews' tech section and for Live Science's reference ...

I’ve sliced, diced and chopped through more than my share of ingredients over the past decade as a food writer — and my cutting boards bear an ugly witness to that. As a new year exercise over the ...

You’ve probably used a number of different cutting boards in your life. Perhaps you had a thick, butcher block-style wooden one. Or a thin plastic one that you could easily pick up, fold up and dump ...

Plastic is everywhere. From the food we eat to the air we breathe, tiny particles of plastic — also known as “microplastics” — can be found in almost anything. Not only does plastic cause real havoc ...

Learn more about the big differences between the two most common types of cutting boards, and how both need to be kept scrupulously clean. Dean Cliver, an expert in food microbiology at the University ...

Ask any chef or home cook what the single most important tool in the kitchen is and he or she will almost certainly give you the same answer: a chef's knife. One, dependable all-purpose chef's knife - ...