Cutting Boards

Bamboo Cutting Board

See larger image Totally Bamboo 20-7930 3-Piece Cutting Board Set (Kitchen) List Price: $14.99 USD New From: $6.99 In Stock Used from: $60.72 In Stock Release date May 1, 2010. Looking for a BPA free cutting board that is made of plastic can be frustrating, and at the same time you might not be so safe with plastic even if it’s BPA Free. There can be other potentially harmful chemicals in plastics that we just don’t know of yet, and that is why getting a bamboo cutting board is a step towards the right direction when it comes to removing toxins from your home. Bamboo is an excellent material to be used in cutting boards – actually it’s way better than wood in many ways. Bamboo isn’t a tree, but it is a grass, and thanks to its superb growth speed it is very ecological and a renewable source of material. When it’s made in to a cutting board, it will be more durable, more resistant to bending, and it won’t chip as easily as a wooden chopping board. Like we discussed in the earlier post about BPA free plastic cutting boards, this is an area that you want to get made of a safe material. Basically you are always using the cutting board in a way that will cause small particles of the material to come off in to your food. You will be grinding that knife against the board when you cut your vegetables, and you are going …

BPA Free Cutting Board

See larger image Preserve Eco-Friendly 14-by-11-Inch Cutting Board, White (Kitchen) List Price: $14.99 USD New From: $8.63 In Stock Used from: $11.35 In Stock If you have decided to remove plastics and BPA from your kitchen, you have come to the right place. This is possibly one of the best BPA free cutting boards we have been able to find, and to test. You can get it in more than one color (white, red, green), which is a great thing if you are looking to have separate cutting boards for fish, poultry, meats and vegetables – which you should. This is to get rid of the risk of cross contaminating the foods that you don’t cook, with the foods that you do have to cook before eating. There is a problem with BPA in cutting boards. The cutting board is one of the most important things to change in your kitchen, if you are hoping to avoid exposure to bisphenol-A. You are constantly using the knife to cut whatever, and at the same time you are grinding the cutting board, which is slowly releasing bits and pieces in your food. This is a common way to get BPA in your system. This cutting board is made of recycled materials which should appeal to the recycler side that most of us have, but also it is made in the US unlike most of the kitchenware you can find these days. On the top of that it doesn’t have the harmful effects …