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Janet Baraclough Janet Baraclough is offline
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Default Chopping board matters for discussion

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> "whirled peas" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > A few months ago I talked with the Restaurant Inspector for the County
> > Health Board (aka food cop) about this... He...said that if he ever saw a
> > plastic board with black lines on it he would order it tossed out
> > immediately.


> What do the black lines mean? Are the 'black lines' just lines on the
> plastic, or do you mean that score marks on the board are noticeably darker
> than the rest of the board? What do the 'black lines' mean?


Score marks with something ingrained into them.

I use a designated round wooden board for bread, a wooden butcher
block top for veg, )
and a plastic board for raw meat (can be scrubbed, and cleaned and
disinfected in ways that would spoil the look of wood)


Janet.