Is it true that plastic cutting boards are more hygienic than wooden boards?
Since this is my website I feel free to speak my personal opinion based on years of experience. It is not material, plastic or wood, that is more or less hygienic. It is people that are hygienic or not. Over the past 10 years or so plastic has been in vogue as the ultimate on hygiene. However, that has never been proved, the only scientific results in that direction came from the plastic industry and where taken over “as is” by the government and others as true. At no time ever have independent studies been made on this subject. Germs are surface dwelling creatures, they do not dig under the surface of material. In other words, if a plastic cutting board is not thoroughly washed then it is as unhygienic as a dirty wooden cutting board. On the other hand a clean wooden cutting board is as hygienic as a clean plastic cutting board is. Any cutting board should be washed with very hot water and a scrubbing brush, not in the dish washer, and then disinfected with bleach and rinsed off with
