/ck/ - Food & Cooking

bamboo is safe. not sure about other woods

>>6357033
if you can disinfect the boards

>>6357033
yes

i used to do so all the time when i worked at a restaurant

they call it a "butcher's block" for a reason. just spray it down with bleach solution after using

I know I'm a bad person for doing this, but....

I'll cut chicken/pork/red meat on my cutting board and the move it to a dish. But I never wash my board and knife with soap after, I just rinse it off with water and dry and then cut my veggies and herbs. I do cut the protein last usually as I get my mise en place all set, but is it really that bad if I don't use soap after poultry?

I, along with the people who eat my food, have never gotten sick, not even once.

... you know you can wash them, right?

>>6357046
But the meat juices soak into the wood

>>6357044

this

food safety is just some shit they made up to give black people jobs as health inspectors

>>6357051
if you soak the board in meat juice overnight, sure.

>>6357056
I'm the guy you replied to, and while food safety is important (I mean who does wanna get sick?) I just have never had it happen.

And I'm not a restaurant cook, just a home "chef" but I cook for 6 people every night and it's never happened.

Yo, shit, I've got that same knife. It's my favorite.

>>6357044
theres no reason to take the risk. if you really can't be fucked, work on a towel and flip the fucking thing.

>>6357063
A good rinse is pretty chill unless there is still residue. If you cook the veggies that are chopped one the contaminated block then it really doesn't matter, but be careful with fresh ones.

>>6357074
True, but I usually get everything else cut before the meat, unless someone is cooking something inside while I grill or whatever.

>>6357085
I mean, I give it a thorough rinse and I do scrub with my sponge which always has soap left in it, so I guess I do wash it with soap sometimes... But even the times I just rinse and wipe with my hand or a clean towel I do a good job.

Also, my veggies are like 95% of the time cooked for meal. I only use scallions, parsley, cilantro, that sort of stuff for garnish, and since I'm being honest, by that point in time, I've already washed and dried my knife and board and I use a small plate and a steak knife to cut them because I can't be bothered to re wash them.

I've done it as long as I've been cooking, I haven't died yet

>>6357044
Holy fuck literally every place Iv worked at has 3 compartment sink set up just for this all you have to do is put knife in soapy water scrub for like 10 sec rinse drop in sanitizer for 30 sec it should take no Moar then 2 min at the most

>>6357092
I said I don't work in the industry. And if you read my other post, I use my sponge which has soap in it. I've also never had anything bad ever happen. I think I'm fine.

>>6357094
Oh as a home chef idgf I'll just wipe it on a Fucking towel if I'm just cooking for my self and am cooking the vegi (I am drunk most of the time I cook for my self though)

>>6357099
It's ok, I figured you didn't mean anything bad by your post anyways. And yeah, like I said before, I usually cut my meat last. Normally because if I'm grilling, I'll either start the sides/garnishing and have someone finish while I go outside to grill (Although I have done the retarded running from outside to inside to cook both at the same time) or I'll be inside and can dictate when I decide to cook everything.

>>6357092
Shouldn't really be leaving your knife in the sani sink man. Dishwashers might not see your obsessively clean knife

>>6357033
I want that board. Sauce.

One might think it'd be a bad idea to put an optical illusion like that on a surface you're cutting on.

>>6357063
>And I'm not a restaurant CHEF, just a home COOK

>>6358056
you can't afford it, anon.

>>6358056
You think you want that board until you wake up in the white house surrounded by police with a bloody kitchen knife in your hands.

>>6357033
no, you will die immediately

>>6358139
Anon is running their own kitchen. I'd call that a chef

you only get sick if you're a bitch

>>6357033
>Is it safe to cut raw meat on wood cutting boards?
Older cutting boards were made from nonsustainable hardwoods. We cut down all the good trees, so now it's softer crappier woods. But, either way, you need to get a scouring sponge and work against and with the grain a few times with your soapy hot water. Then, rinse that baby with a mild bleach solutions and let it air dry in your dish drainer completely. Forget that bullshit about oils and conditioning wood. A quality cutting board will stand up to years of this use because it won't be pieced together from several pieces of wood. It will be end grain too, if so.

>>6357044
Yes, you are a bad person. At any point in someone's life they can be a little rundown immune-wise, and that illness can hospitalize them, and rarely, might just kill them. You can't predict this at all.

Right now, go spend $5 on amazon and get yourself a stack of 4 thin flexible plastic cutting boards, and no matter what order you cut up your dinner fixings, you'll always have a clean board. Lay these suckers over your nice stable wooden ones if you have tile counters or whatever. It would take you 15 seconds to run a knife past a soapy sponge and screaming hot water, and only $15 to own more than one suitable knife.

i put a really soft plastic cutting sheet over my cutting board when doing meat.

I only have one really nice wooden board and a stack of shitty plastic ones.
I use the wooden one for anything I know I'll be cooking; raw meat, veggies... I don't care. It's all going in the pot anyway.

If I'm cutting something I intend to leave raw I use one of the plastic boards.

I do still clean the wooden one of course, but keeping your meet and veggies separate when cutting them only to mix them moments later in the pot or pan is just illogical.

>>6358277
Read my other posts. I do run them through a sponge. My counters are marble, I have to use a board.

>>6357044
>>6357056
>Merrill Howard Kalin Level Food Fuckups

This is how people take themselves out of the gene pool. Knowingly doing it to other people is actually a criminal offense.

>>6357033
I wouldn't, but do whatever you like pal.

>>6357044
>is it really that bad if I don't use soap after poultry?
If the food you're cutting afterwards is also getting cooked then I have no idea why it would be a problem. If it's for a salad then obviously it's a problem.

>>6358548
look at this faggot.

>>6357033
YES, in fact that is what a butcher block is, wood, right> It is also the safest thing to cut meat on as a nicely roughened board will grip the slippery meat really well.

And now dear time to clean up: acquire a scrub brush to reserve just for this chore, and sprinkle salt or baking soda your choice over it. Let it sit a little while and then rinse well, with the aid of your brush.

>>6358270
Use salt or baking soda instead of bleach. And it is really worth your while to seek out an END GRAIN MAPLE chopping block. You can find them online. Not cheap.... sometimes you can find great boards at craft shows made by someone in their home workshop.

This is why you use end grain

>>6358277
Water that comes from the tap is not hot enough to kill most bacteria. Soaps can take over a minute for any anti bacterial properties to take effect.

Enjoy your false sense of security.

>>6357063
grill?

>>6359077
wood doesn't behave like spaghetti.

>>6360621
Shows what you know. Try and break a board with your fist going against the grain, then with the grain. It's not hard.
Penn and Teller have a nice bullshit piece on it. Even Teller can break fucking wood boards when he's going with the grain.

>>6360636
No you realize going to the end is going with the grain, right?
It'll absorb a thin slice easier then the tangential plane of a board.
But even then, a kitchen knife will not crack the wood.
there's a reason you use the cross cut side when chopping wood.

>America told me wooden boards are dangerous D:

http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/1107.html

>>6357044

Yo dawg, don't sweat it. Our family has one of these and we only rinse it with water after using it or before using it. We use it almost weekly for years.

America is too paranoid to realize our ancestors used to cook in fucking stones for fuck sake.

>>6360720

and the average life expectancy was 35

>>6362137
you know thats because babies used to drop like flies

>>6357033
When I worked at butchers shop I had to scrub it hard with a metal brush every day. The cutting board had U shape after all the time

>>6362137
if you survived childhood and didn't die in a war, you might expect to live over 60

>>6359119
>Water that comes from the tap is not hot enough to kill most bacteria.
If you turn your water heater down below scalding because you have kids in the house, I suppose.