Chopboard Cleaning Tips. Kitchen hygiene, correct cleaning and maintenance methods.

Most people just wash the chopboard used in the kitchen with water, but do you know that this chopboard can become the root of dangerous diseases? Actually, things like vegetables, fruits, meat, chicken and fish are cut on the chopboard. Due to their cutting, the juice or pieces that stick on the board give the bacteria a chance to flourish there. Especially if there is a wooden chopboard, then these germs are hidden in its foramen and can spread throughout the food by repeatedly use. This can cause food poisoning, diarrhea, vomiting and other stomach related problems. Therefore, cleaning of chopboard is very important.

To clean the chopboard, washing it with water is not enough. For this, you should use natural and anti-bacterial things. First cut a lemon and rub it well on the chopboard. After this, sprinkle a little salt and scrub it. Lemon contains citric acid that helps kill germs and salt acts like a natural scrubber. If you want, apply one teaspoon of baking soda and one teaspoon vinegar and apply it on the chopboard and leave it for 10 minutes. Then wash it with warm water. If you adopt this method every week, then the Chopboard will be completely bacteria free.

If you use chopboard made of plastic or bamboo, then some precautions are also necessary for them. Plastic boards often deteriorate with knife cuts and bacteria can grow in these cracks. To clean them, spray equal quantity of bleach and water and spray it after some time and wash it well. Keep in mind that the plastic board can also be added to microwave or hot water, which will remove more dirt. At the same time, soaking bamboo boards in water is not right, they can burst from this.

It is important for a healthy life that we take full care of our kitchen hygiene. Changing the chopboard at regular intervals is also a good option, especially when deep cuts come on it and even after cleaning it starts to smell. It would be better to keep separate chopboard for different food items-like a board for vegetables, for a meat-fish and for a fruit. This will not cause cross-composition problems and food will be safe.