Burn hole in worktop

There was a discussion about bugs on this ng some many months ago.

I went over to 'Persil' kills 99.9% of bugs and germs type washing-up liquid. Back came a very logical argument, that killing the lesser bugs left the MRSA types free to multiply.

I threw the biological cleaner in the bin.

Dave

Do you think they even knew about bacteria when the started making butchers blocks?

It is to stop splinters getting in the meat. If you used a cleaver on the long grain it would soon splinter, which it doesn't on the end grain.

I know. That's why I don't care about it:-)

Mary

No, it's to make the chopping easier with no damage to longitinal fibres.

Mary

That would be true if your persil relied on antibiotics to kill the bugs, but it doesnt.

Also it may or may not kill 99.9% of bugs it touches, but it wont kill ones embedded in muck in grooves in wood, or any other material.

NT

"Mary Fisher" typed

I don't like garlic-flavoured apple pie, myself...

The message from Helen Deborah Vecht contains these words:

Helen you're /so/ conservative!

LOL! I've never tried it :-)

Mary

I have to agree - I was suggesting its use as a decorative/heat- resistant inlay, not as a chopping board :-) I suspect that people who use glass chopping boards also use those nasty serrated "never needs sharpening" knives.

I've got glass boards and sharpen my own knives - with glass you have to. I dont try honing them to razor perfection, so sharpening is quick enough.

If wooden boards were a new idea introduced today they'd be illegal, as there just not reliably cleanable imho. Inability to see when theyre clean or not is part of the problem.

NT