Cutting board

A chopping board is a canvas. Only the canvas is not sewn and not artistic, but a culinary one. It's hard to imagine preparing something to eat without such a "canvas".

Everyone uses the board - and professional chefs, and cooks are self-taught. It is not good to cut food on the table.

Requirements for the cutting board are few. There are only four of them. The chopping board should be the right size, it must be sturdy, comfortable and certainly clean. Proceeding from this, experts recommend to apply for each type of provision its board.

Then a reasonable question arises. How many kitchen boards should there be? Ideally, twelve. For each product on the board. But this is considered a luxury, so you need to have at least 4 boards in the kitchen:

• For fish, since it retains an unpleasant odor.
• For meat. It should be quite solid, as it will be chopped on bones and prepared chops.
• For vegetables, sausages and other products.
• The fourth cutting board is needed for bread.

Now, with regard to the dimensions of the boards. Their size for meat and fish is 30x50 cm with a thickness of 3 cm. The boards for bread and vegetables can be smaller and thinner.

Traditionally, kitchen boards are made of wood. Basically it is oak, beech, acacia. The boards can be made of solid wood or combined (the latter are recruited from separate pieces).

After each use, the board needs to be scrubbed with hot water and must be dried. The water must drain completely, so it must be suspended. Not so long ago there were plastic boards. They are very durable, durable and wash well. The most reliable are the stone boards, but they are expensive.

It should be noted that to clean the fish you need a cutting board with a clamping bar. It should be wooden, and the presser bar is made of durable plastic. On the opposite side of the clamping bar there are spikes.

Fish lay their tail on the thorns and, lowering the bar, fix it with a latch. After that you can start cleaning. Such a cutting board for fish is very convenient.

If the old kitchen boards have become unusable, do not rush to run to the store. You can try to make this attribute with your own hands. To do this, you need to find the material (to get a piece of wood with a thickness of 20-40 mm, a width of 300 mm and a length of 400-600 mm in the household - no problem). After consulting with the wife, draw the future figure of the board. When the drawing is ready, carefully cut off all unnecessary.

Your kitchen board has already become like an attractive product. Now it should be made smooth. In order to remove the bulges, we take a coarse-grained skin, then a pellet with a smaller grain. And finally, with a very shallow skin we bring the roughness to a minimum. We clean the product of wood dust and well soaked sunflower oil. After drying, the oil will protect the kitchen board from water penetration and further deformation.

Cutting board is ready. With your hands, you can sometimes make a small, but a masterpiece, which is not ashamed to show your wife.