Food Safe Wood for Cutting Boards
Posted in Woodworking on Oct 21st, 2007
Wood Magazine this month published a question from a reader asking which woods are food safe. Their reply was that tight-grained domestic hardwoods, especially maple, birch, and beech leave fewer hiding places for food-borne bacteria than open-grained wood. Yet they said parenthetically that Bamboo, which is a grass, was also food safe–though Bamboo [...]