Cutting board questions

[Cullens_Girl]

The one I have is ages old and cracked...

I don't like using the plastic ones - I have a real nice wooden one but I only use it for cutting bread on...

Also do you have seperate boards for meat and veggies? Right now I do cut meat on plastic boards because I'm afraid of not getting the wooden board clean enough.

[sweetpeas]

When I replace my cutting boards I'm thinking I'll get bamboo, I love how quickly it grows so easily sustainable No help on the meat vs veggies, since we're vegetarian but I'd be leary of meat on a wood cutting board too.

[SiValleySteph]

We have a shmancy-pants giant Boos block cutting board that DH uses for everything except raw meat. The raw meat is cut on plastic.

That cutting board is DH's baby, so I am scared of using it and use plastic for everything. We do have seperate ones for meat. I need him to give me a lesson on proper care & treatment of cutting boards so I can use the Boos block, too, and then we can use plastic for raw meet only.

[Cullens_Girl]

ooh maybe I'll try the bamboo... I guess I will stick to plastic for the raw meat - I like how I can put it in the dishwasher.

[RubyWild]

After the media said we should switch from wood to plastic, studies were conducted that showed that wood has natural antibacterial properties so that after a specified period of time after washing, more bacteria returned to the plastic than the wood. Wood is actually cleaner in the long run. I don't know about bamboo, but that's what I have now.