Tip Of The Day

[Old_Geezer]

No question, just a tip (which I suspect everyone else already knows).

Suppose you have a foodstuff, oh plucking something out of the air, say a pack of Tandoori chicken breast mini fillets; and you see they will soon be past the 'best before'. And suppose you think, "Rather than go past the date I can slice those up and use them as the basis of a sandwich filling. Maybe add a few other ingredients also."

And as you slice the fillets you see the paprika coating falling onto your nice wooden chopping board. Suppose that you get concerned that it may be difficult to clean so you take away the wooden one and opt to use the antibacterial plastic one thinking that must be easy to clean. I'm just warning folk, both stain and both are not easy to clean.

Just a head's up that the simple job of slicing up some fillets can cause a major problem.

Nylon scourer will hardly touch it, neither will a metal scourer, and wire wool pan scourers will only removed some. After a period hand rubbing the boards with aluminium oxide abrasive paper, and finally giving up and using the power sander, the boards will become somewhat thinner than they were, but the red colour will be no longer visible. And at least half of your morning will have gone.

[Old_Geezer]

Interesting suggestions all.

Just about Woifie but I reckon I've fixed the issue for now.

I'd shy away from chopping on a plate. Can't do the knife edge any favours.

Still, ok for now, cheers.

[ethandron]

You have to balance it up OG...a slightly blunted knife which you can easily sharpen, against a stained chopping board which takes ages and lots of suggestions to get clean again. Hmm, decisions ;o)

[Old_Geezer]

Ceramic is difficult to sharpen. I think I'll simply avoid cutting meat with rubbed on stuff over it, in future.

[ethandron]

I didn't realise ceramic knives were difficult to sharpen, can't you just use one of those pull through gadgets? I see lots of ceramic knife sharpeners for sale on Amazon very similar to the one I use for my sebatier/Ikea/kitchen devils knives.
Did you enjoy your sandwich though, that's the important question?

[Old_Geezer]

Oh yes, both of them, thank you for enquiring. That was the previous night.