Do you want to separate meat and vegetables from the chopping block?
It is best to separate the meat cutting board from the fruit cutting board. Because there may be parasites in raw meat, it will not be killed if it is not cooked at high temperature for a long time, and raw vegetables and fruits will be eaten in the stomach, causing parasitic infection. The cooking temperature of some dishes is much lower than that of killing bacteria.
Choppers and chopping boards for cutting meat are greasy and difficult to clean, which will breed a lot of bacteria. If vegetables and fruits are cut, it may cause pollution. Therefore, it is best to cut meat, vegetables and fruits with two knives and two cases.
Why should the chopping block be cooked separately?
It is understood that pathogenic bacteria are enemies accompanying human life, one of which is Salmonella, which can cause health hazards: gastroenteritis, bacteremia, reactive arthritis or death. Statistics show that there are 93.8 million cases of gastroenteritis caused by salmonella in the world every year, and the number of people who die from infection every year is 6.5438+0.55 million. In the United States, salmonella causes more than 654.38 million people to get sick and nearly 400 people die every year. In China, it is estimated that more than 9 million people get sick and about 800 people die every year. Most people infected with salmonella show symptoms of gastroenteritis, and get better after a few days, so it doesn't look terrible. But the elderly, infants and people with poor immunity may have bacteremia and systemic infection. Once this happens, the mortality rate can even reach 3.6%, so it is a health threat that cannot be ignored. An institutional survey once found that the proportion of raw and cooked chopping boards in China was less than13, and only half of the residents who did not separate raw and cooked chopping boards used detergent to clean chopping boards. According to estimates, if everyone can separate raw and cooked cases, 2 million cases of salmonella food poisoning can be reduced every year in the country. Because of direct contact with food, when raw food is cut, bacteria in food will remain on it, and there are more bacteria and parasite eggs on lettuce. If it is used to cut cooked food again, bacteria will directly pollute cooked food with kitchen knives and chopping boards. Raw food often contains many bacteria and parasite eggs. If you don't pay attention to separate them during processing and storage, such as cutting cooked food with a knife that has cut raw food; If the cooked food is put in a container containing raw food without cleaning and disinfection, the bacteria and parasite eggs on the raw food will be contaminated on the cooked food again and multiply on the cooked food, which is harmful to human health.
How to clean the chopping board after cutting raw meat?
First, you can use baking soda. Sprinkle baking soda on the chopping block, then spray water and brush it clean. Then clean it with a rag and put it in a ventilated place to dry, which can prolong the service life of the chopping block.
Often use the chopping block to cut meat, and it will inevitably leave a bad smell after a long time. White vinegar can be used at this time. Wipe the chopping block with a rag dipped in white vinegar, then dry it in the sun, and then wash it with water, even the unpleasant smell disappears.
Salt and lemon are also a wonderful combination. Sprinkle a little salt on the chopping block, then wipe the chopping block with lemon slices, then let it stand for 3 minutes, and then wash it with water.
Long-term use of chopping boards will breed harmful bacteria, so disinfection is very important. First clean the chopping block with clear water, then apply a layer of hydrogen peroxide, let it stand for 5 minutes, and then clean it.
Chopping boards are usually made of wood or bamboo, so it is very important to keep the chopping board from cracking, so no matter which way you clean it, you should apply vegetable oil to prevent the chopping board from cracking.
What if there are sawdust on the chopping board?
1. Scrape the sawdust with a knife.
After chopping meat with a chopping board, if there are sawdust, we can directly hang the sawdust on the chopping board with a kitchen knife and then clean it with water. When cleaning, we can brush it with a hard brush to completely remove the dirt and sawdust on the chopping board, so as to keep the chopping board flat and clean.
2. Clean the chopping board with a hard brush and rice washing water.
Prepare a hard brush and rice washing water, soak the chopping block in the rice washing water, then scrub the chopping block with a hard plastic brush, clean up the sawdust and tiny meat foam on the chopping block, and then rinse the chopping block with warm water, which can effectively remove the sawdust and fishy smell on the chopping block. After cleaning, dry the water on the chopping block and put it in a cool and dry place to dry. It is worth noting that the chopping board with good meat should not be scalded with boiling water, which will solidify the protein in the meat left on the chopping board and make it more difficult to clean.
Replace the cutting board with a new one
If there are a lot of sawdust on the chopping block after each use, it means that the hardness of the wooden chopping block is not enough. Using this chopping block to chop meat, it is easy to leave deep and many knife marks on the chopping block, and the sawdust will fall off. Long-term use of this cutting board will do harm to human health, because deep knife marks are more likely to accumulate dirt and are not easy to clean. After a long time, it will breed a lot of bacteria and even mildew, which will seriously affect your health. In addition, although sawdust is a natural wood fiber, it will not have any great influence on your body, but it will also be harmful to your body after adding it.