Check out those knife marks. Is that sanitary for next customer?
Check out those knife marks. Is that sanitary for next customer?
by Regallybeagley
23 Comments
mkdive
You are a very considerate person worrying about the next people. If I were you I would be worried about myself.
I-need-ur-dick-pics
Your food has seen much worse than a few knife marks in a cutting board. You’ll be fine.
CraftyCat3
If properly cleaned and cared for, then yes it’s perfectly sanitary.
Nikolaitemperance
Yes.
dicknotrichard
Wood is naturally antibacterial. While not the best idea for playing a dish, it’s not the worst either.
davidbklyn
If it were plastic I’d be concerned. It’s wood so I’m not.
I wash my wooden cutting board maybe twice a year, it’s fine.
I don’t think it’s a great plate though.
EDIT: I don’t want to eat off that thing in OP’s photo! I don’t mean to imply that cutting board in OP’s post, used in restaurant as a regular plate, doesn’t need to be washed just cause it’s wood. I wouldn’t want to eat off that unless it was washed after each use and in fact I don’t want to eat off it all!
But my “daily driver” cutting board at home, I keep it clean, but it’s not often I scrub it. We’re a family of four and we use that cutting board daily for all kinds of things, and we don’t get food poisoning at home. Maybe this fierce downvoting is cause my comment is interpreted like I’m a slob but America’s obsession with cleanliness is basically a mania (I assume the majority of weirded-out people by my cutting board are American).
Rryon
Who the fuck even thinks like this in terms of germs. Like the ghost of the knife if going to hurt you? Jesus Christ
Curious_Emu1752
That is some goddamned DOGSHIT plating.
Foreign-Activity3896
Nope, the health department should tell them to discard immediately.
Streuth14
It is not an approved surface for a retail food operation to serve a meal on according to the FDA Food Code due to the reduced cleanability in the scratched surface.
late2reddit19
This meal would actually look good nicely plated on an actual plate. The skid marks on this cutting board make it look unappetizing.
budnabudnabudna
It looks awful. Would look much better in a freaking plate.
WaxWorkKnight
If that was washed in any dish pit like the ones I worked in, then it was put on a rack and slid into a machine that washes it with scalding hot water and some fairly awful chemicals And a lot of woods have some anti microbial properties, iirc.
I would still have a problem with it.
For me, it is one thing to intellectually know that I am eating off of a surface hundreds of others have eaten off of before. It is another thing to actually see the difference. I would know it’s clean, but it would make me feel like I am eating off of someone else’s dirty plate that they couldn’t bother to properly clean.
I bet that place charges way too much for me to feel like that about my food.
sour-pomegranate
It’s honestly impressive that they managed to make mashed potatoes unappetizing
UncreativeTeam
Wood cutting boards are only dangerous if you’re preparing raw food on them and aren’t able to clean them properly afterwards. If the restaurant is running the board through a dishwasher or properly cleaning through a 3 sink system, there’s no reason why this would be any more dangerous than a smooth board.
Individual_Smell_904
It’s a shame their plating is so bad because the food itself looks great
Toolfan333
It’s fine, it’s actually been proven in studies that bacteria survives longer on plastic cutting boards than it does on wood.
GoddyssIncognito
Ew.
atleast3jesuses
For me it’s more of a flavor problem. Like if I cut an apple on our wooden cutting board at home, it usually ends up tasting like the garlic I chopped on it the night before. Although I wash it after each use, you can’t really get all the residual flavor out.
RoyalClient6610
Technically, no. Wood is porous and can retain bacteria. I’d imagine a virus would need to be fairly recent for it to be able to survive outside of a human body, within 48 hours. It’s not sterile, but I’m guessing hot water and soap would help remove some bacteria. I’m not a fan of this, but I get it. Appearance-wise, the scrapes simply look bad, too.
I worked somewhere that would serve pasta in 6″ diameter parmesan bowls as individual servings. That bothered me. I don’t even think the surfaces of those were flame torched before placing the pasta in them for different guests.
beegtuna
The best steak I had was on a wooden plank in a jungle competing with mosquitos. This is mids lol
giyomu
Wow. Grimmer than Grimsby.
tmorrrow
No, it isn’t. This isn’t sanitary for use in your own home. Did you eat it? That food looks not good.
23 Comments
You are a very considerate person worrying about the next people. If I were you I would be worried about myself.
Your food has seen much worse than a few knife marks in a cutting board. You’ll be fine.
If properly cleaned and cared for, then yes it’s perfectly sanitary.
Yes.
Wood is naturally antibacterial. While not the best idea for playing a dish, it’s not the worst either.
If it were plastic I’d be concerned. It’s wood so I’m not.
I wash my wooden cutting board maybe twice a year, it’s fine.
I don’t think it’s a great plate though.
EDIT: I don’t want to eat off that thing in OP’s photo! I don’t mean to imply that cutting board in OP’s post, used in restaurant as a regular plate, doesn’t need to be washed just cause it’s wood. I wouldn’t want to eat off that unless it was washed after each use and in fact I don’t want to eat off it all!
But my “daily driver” cutting board at home, I keep it clean, but it’s not often I scrub it. We’re a family of four and we use that cutting board daily for all kinds of things, and we don’t get food poisoning at home. Maybe this fierce downvoting is cause my comment is interpreted like I’m a slob but America’s obsession with cleanliness is basically a mania (I assume the majority of weirded-out people by my cutting board are American).
Who the fuck even thinks like this in terms of germs. Like the ghost of the knife if going to hurt you? Jesus Christ
That is some goddamned DOGSHIT plating.
Nope, the health department should tell them to discard immediately.
It is not an approved surface for a retail food operation to serve a meal on according to the FDA Food Code due to the reduced cleanability in the scratched surface.
This meal would actually look good nicely plated on an actual plate. The skid marks on this cutting board make it look unappetizing.
It looks awful. Would look much better in a freaking plate.
If that was washed in any dish pit like the ones I worked in, then it was put on a rack and slid into a machine that washes it with scalding hot water and some fairly awful chemicals And a lot of woods have some anti microbial properties, iirc.
I would still have a problem with it.
For me, it is one thing to intellectually know that I am eating off of a surface hundreds of others have eaten off of before. It is another thing to actually see the difference. I would know it’s clean, but it would make me feel like I am eating off of someone else’s dirty plate that they couldn’t bother to properly clean.
I bet that place charges way too much for me to feel like that about my food.
It’s honestly impressive that they managed to make mashed potatoes unappetizing
Wood cutting boards are only dangerous if you’re preparing raw food on them and aren’t able to clean them properly afterwards. If the restaurant is running the board through a dishwasher or properly cleaning through a 3 sink system, there’s no reason why this would be any more dangerous than a smooth board.
It’s a shame their plating is so bad because the food itself looks great
It’s fine, it’s actually been proven in studies that bacteria survives longer on plastic cutting boards than it does on wood.
Ew.
For me it’s more of a flavor problem. Like if I cut an apple on our wooden cutting board at home, it usually ends up tasting like the garlic I chopped on it the night before. Although I wash it after each use, you can’t really get all the residual flavor out.
Technically, no. Wood is porous and can retain bacteria. I’d imagine a virus would need to be fairly recent for it to be able to survive outside of a human body, within 48 hours. It’s not sterile, but I’m guessing hot water and soap would help remove some bacteria. I’m not a fan of this, but I get it. Appearance-wise, the scrapes simply look bad, too.
I worked somewhere that would serve pasta in 6″ diameter parmesan bowls as individual servings. That bothered me. I don’t even think the surfaces of those were flame torched before placing the pasta in them for different guests.
The best steak I had was on a wooden plank in a jungle competing with mosquitos. This is mids lol
Wow. Grimmer than Grimsby.
No, it isn’t. This isn’t sanitary for use in your own home. Did you eat it? That food looks not good.