The cleanliness of cutting boards is a long-debated food safety issue, given that both wood and plastic — the most common cutting board materials — can easily harbor bacteria. New research shows that ...

If you obsess over your knives, you should also care about your cutting boards. Indispensable to any home kitchen, the best cutting boards are true workhorses, as they provide a gentle yet stable ...

Cutting boards take a beating by design. Whether they’re glass, acrylic, wood, or plastic, you’ll need to follow a few simple rules for use and care. Most important, you’ll need at least two boards if ...

Your kitchen isn’t complete without a cutting board – or two, or three. They're not just useful tools, they're integral to safe and efficient food preparation. Depending on what you are using it for, ...

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Everyone has one: a scratched, stained plastic cutting board that’s been in your kitchen for years. Despite how many times you say to yourself, “I should get a new one,” you never do — but now, it’s ...

Cutting is when a person deliberately hurts themselves by scratching or cutting their body with a sharp object. The reasons someone might do this are complicated. People who cut themselves might be ...

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