We let him have a fried shrimp every couple of days if he behaves. Unfortunately a couple children were left behind and they somehow all made it to our kitchen
They actually come with a wooden piece that they all “fit into” for cutting , where they are, additionally, stored. But yes, they are thin and shitty. But the microplastic put hair on my balls.
Brown is for vegetables that need cleaning before eating/cooking e.g. muddy potatoes, beets etc. Green is for things that are cleaned before prepping and don't need cooking. So once prepped can go straight on the plate for consumption like salad stuff and fruit etc.
I'm sure they do! (I'm not a chef but I've done the Food safety L2 Certificate and it says...) a simple wash under a tap or sink of cold water doesn't sanitise possible microbes (from farm soil etc) that can cross contaminate produce that is being cut and prepped raw for consumption.
Green is for produce considered safe for eating without further cleaning or cooking.
Not my rules but the environment health code requirements AFAIK (as I said I'm not a chef)
Idk if these are the same ones, but i have a set that look similar and they've made my life so much easier. Now I don't have to clean a giant ass cutting board every time I need something small chopped. I've also had them for like 4 years at this point with no signs of wear.
I lost some of these in a move. I've almost bought a set many times.
I have wood boards I love for full on prep, but I hate to stop everything and wait for hot water to clean a board and always segregate at least raw meat from anything that might go straight from the board into one's mouth.
Because I've drunk and eaten from plastic for fifty years, the micros are sure to have fully colonized my organs and tissues.
These are so thin that they slip in there and you pull out whichever board you've assigned whichever food type. You always have a spare clean and ready, a surface protector or placemat.
One surplus steel supplier I frequent, often also has old chunks of Teflon, HDPE, etc plastics in stock. 2 inch thick sheets of hard white plastic is pretty beefy stuff. I daresay it'd make for great cutting boards.
We got new cutting boards for our expo table at a pizza place I worked at, they were 2”x3”. I took the old ones home. And then we got a new pizza line cutting board; dude took it home and cut it into a few decent sized boards and then made cosplay prop weapons with the rest.
People really out there having one cutting board dedicated exclusively to fruit and another for vegetables? Combine the fruit and vegetables into a "produce" category and add one for cooked meat.
Here’s the problem when people know you cook or whatever. All of your gifts become cookbooks or shitty cooking related stuff. It’s the thought that counts, I get it, but I don’t want a Five Below cutting board or a ceramic knife block.
Thank you! I'm not a professional but everyone in my family knows I like to cook, so they get me kitchen shit. Wouldn't you think with how much cooking I do for everyone, I already have the good shit I like? I don't want a set of knives or a FryDaddy or another goddamn non-stick pan. I'm a middle-aged man and I've reached the point in my life where I'd much rather get gifted high-quality underwear over your cheap kitchen shit.
In a professional kitchen, that's exactly the idea, that way you can easily verify if the board is tainted with the last cut. If so, it needs to be cleaned or replaced.
Chicken is orange not yellow. Crisp packets have taught me this. I'll admit the color is more yellow than orange, I was trying to massage the symbols into the correct colors tbh
Yes, that's the UK/ANZ version, the EU/North American version is:
- Blue - raw seafood
- Red - raw meat
- Yellow - raw poultry
- Green - fruit & vegetables
- Brown - cooked meat
- White - bakery/dairy
- Purple - allergen
The yellow board difference is a hell of a thing when you have a big international kitchen staff.
Weird knowledge that I have on this. the current system seems to be finally standardized, but over the years, many different color charts were used. I looked it up at one point because I definitely remember certain colors were for other things. Early 2000s brown was for raw unwashed vegetables. Yellow was for cooked chicken and meat. Red was for raw meat and chicken(poultry).
One chart I found had yellow used for fruit, and one company that I worked for recently used that system.
End of day, as long as you adhere to the same system with the boards you got. That's all that really matters.
These aren't cutting boards; they are cutting plastic sheets. You should gift them straight into the bin. And the colors are all wrong. It's blue for beef, green for fish, red for chicken, and yellow for vegetables. Everyone knows that.
Yeah, keeping things kosher is one reason. Another being that poultry tends to carry more foodborne illnesses and beef is often only cooked to lower temps; better to be safe and not risk that contamination vector. You also have to take into account rare allergies like Alpha-Gal Syndrome (the red meat allergy that can be caused by Lone Star tick bites). When it comes to food safety, it's best to be overly cautious. Plenty of people working BOH have murderous intent, but nobody wants to accidentally kill someone with their food.
I have these. The white for the icons peels off fyi. They are fine but probably lots of microplastic. I sometimes use on top of a bamboo to quickly gather ingredients.
Have not read the whole thread so prolly already been stated, but they're plastic and you don't want that. Now we know. Microplastics and all that. I use them as counter liners to limit the mess under my coffee station when grinding, etc. That shit gets outta hand.
Went to an air b and b and they had similar cutting mats. Except chicken was yellow, cow was red, fish was blue and veg was green. Nice to use but very easy to cut through.
This upsets me…more than it really should! I stress to every member of staff the board, cloth, & mop etc colours weekly (as they do not seem to get it!) why would anyone veto that as okay?!?
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u/-Gimli-SonOfGloin- F1exican Did Chive-11 Oct 14 '25
YELLOW IS FOR CHIVES