Why do restaurants like to use plastic cutting boards?
First of all, it is determined according to the environment of the hotel. The working environment of the back kitchen of the hotel is often inseparable from water. Therefore, if a wooden cutting board is used for a long time, it may cause the wood to rot, and there will be a lot of bacteria in the deteriorated wooden cutting board. Using this kind of cutting board to cut vegetables, it is conceivable that the quality of the food will definitely not be qualified, and there will be a very big hidden danger to the health of consumers. This problem does not occur when using plastic cutting boards. The raw material of plastic cutting boards is PE material, which is light in weight and easy to carry. It will not rot or breed bacteria when working in a humid environment. However, plastic cutting boards are not recommended for cutting at high temperatures. For food, it is recommended that the temperature should not exceed 50 degrees. If you want to cut greasy food, you need to pay attention to cleaning.
And the PE material plastic cutting board is available in a variety of colors, and it is very easy to distinguish. There are as many as 6 colors of cutting boards commonly found in hotels. At the same time, each cutting board is also equipped with a special knife. The color of the knife handle is the same as that of the corresponding cutting board, so as to facilitate the distinction. The use of each color is generally: red cutting board for raw meat; brown cutting board for cooked meat; White cutting boards are used for dairy products; blue cutting boards are used for seafood; green cutting boards are used for vegetables and fruits; yellow cutting boards are used for poultry.
From the perspective of environmental protection, the hotel’s cutting board is used frequently and has a large consumption. Take the vegetable pier (about 450mm in diameter) used for wooden chopped ribs as an example, each such pier needs to be made from a 30-50 year old tree, which is very unfavorable to environmental protection, and a plastic cutting board can solve the problem. this problem.