The Best Way to Avoid Staining a Cutting Board
Carolyn shows us the best hack for preventing pesky stains on a cutting board.
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Am I the only one that noticed that the cutting board WAS stained?
So long as it can be sterilized in a dishwasher, that is all that matters. I have 35% hydrogen peroxide that also removes stains.
Or just buy real wood cuttting boards instead of adding oil to strawberries, beats, and other foods that DO NOT call for oil
MOM, these beets taste funny! LOL
🤯🤯 how did I NOT know this?? Amazing. Thanks ✨ 😊✨
How about just using water. It works for me.
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This tip worked well when I made some red curry paste chicken thighs in my sous vide reusable silicon bags. I don’t know how badly these would have stained, but it didn’t stain at all and I had the added benefit that the chicken broth bits didn’t stick to the bag as they had previously, making clean up easier. I’ll probably stick with bleach for my cutting board, but this was a helpful tip. Thanks!
I usually learn from America's Test Kitchen tips but sorry, I am not going to add oil to beets or anything else that tends to stain the cutting board. I'll keep using bleach and dish detergent to clean it. Not a good tip this time ATK.
Oil and fruit 😭
Bleach water (1 cap per gallon – or about 125ppm) is generally used as a sanitizing solution for light cleaning/sanitizing. When I worked in restaurants, we would take a kitchen towel wet from the bleach water bucket and lay it over a stained cutting board overnight. Works every time – usually takes about an hour, except for turmeric.
Good for your cutting board but bad for your food, who wants vegetable oil on their beets, pomegranates or any other food that is not going to be oiled and cooked after you cut it.
Wow, tough crowd. It's just a suggestion 🤷🏼♀️
So how do we clean the board that's already stained?
Excellent tip!
Great info, thanks
not something I'd do for lots of reasons.
I often stain my board by prepping red chilis…and I don't care…lol
yeah no
I mean, you could also wash the cutting board afterwards.
Or wash with bleach. Less expensive, more effective.
SNOOZE FEST!!!!! Another waste of time.
Who cares if your chopping board is stained, a chopping board that doesn't have wear and tear hasn't been used.
How shallow do you have to be to give a sht about such a trivial matter.
Just use a layer or two of parchment paper on your board….almost no clean-up if you are lazy like me
Or you could also just wash the board with dish soap….. Dont even need a bleach or anything. Warm water and dish soap and a brush works wonders. Also WIPING the darn juice just makes the stain worse. I guess this hack only works for restaurants that don't have time to wash every board between each vegetable and so on. For at home cooks though? Yeah no, just use dish soap and warm water.
What a terrible idea! You just created a hazardous situation for yourself to get cut and added an oily taste to the food you’re chopping. Besides, the video’s title says it will tell us how to CLEAN a stained chopping board. What a waste of time!
a stained cutting board is a well used cutting board… protip- use one board for fruit, and just fruit… I WILL NEVER HAVE GARLIC FLAVORED FRUIT SALAD AGAIN
Horrible. How safe is it 2 chop vegetables on an OILY surface. Incredibly irresponsible of u and the makers if this channel.
Any serious cook knows the focus is on the preparation of the food and the quality of the product NOT what will be stained in the process. Unreal!
I would like to see a super big amburgueza that you do your pretty chef https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxAnjSziEJ4&list=PLkbAJUmyMTCL9FmSUsHv1kf-2MTqTAgRi
But then you have poor quality oil in the food mix. I wouldn't do that. I just do beetroot on a plate. Even easier.
Because we want silicone in our food.
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No it didn’t work. C’mon guys you can do better than this.
So next time I’m having some berries on my ice cream or cakes it will come with some taste of oil? No maaam
What about cleaning a stained or dirty board? I use salt on wood and have been told vinegar for perspex, but what do you say?
I see you changed the title.
Thanks, Carolyn!
How ridiculous lol. Seems like a good way to lose a finger… Also who the hell cares if your cutting board is stained…
Yummy… raspberries covered in oil. cant wait to serve that to some unsuspecting Shmuck.
0:00 The problem with beets is that they taste like dirt.
In order to remove an existing stain, simply spray oil on the stain and cut another beet on top of it.
This recommendation made about as much sense as the video.
Bleach. It eats right through all those stains.
This is nice. Hope there will be a Meat grinder test.
Why did ATK allow this atrocious video to get posted?! I'll continue to soak my boards in a water and bleach solution.