I love my wood cutting board. I also have a hard plastic cutting board (in two sizes): One big guy with a depressed border for catching meat juices, and a small one for quickie slicing like slicing a tomato for a sandwich.
I never thought I'd want or even like a thin, flexible cutting board (if you can call a thin piece of plastic… a board). But here's the surprise. I not only like these "mats" for cutting, but I absolutely love them. Them… I say because I have a set of 3.
These little treasures come in different colors for different uses: The set of 3 that I have are color coded with an illustration of its suggested use right in the corner. So green for cutting vegetables. Red for meat. Yellow for fish. No more worries about bacteria from one cutting surface to another. But cross contamination is only one of the great features of these little flexible cutting boards or mats.
Believe it when I say that the "flexible" feature is a blessing. After I cut up an onion, for example, I can bend the "mat" and the onion pieces fall into my pan or bowl. No lifting the heavier wooden cutting board. No scraping the surface to push the onions into the pan. It is so easy.
By the same token, cleaning is a breeze. These mats are lightweight so washing up is incredibly easy and fast. I keep them on the kitchen counter so they are handy. Good news, because I use one or the other… more than one time a day… every day.
My knife doesn't get dull using my mat. The size is perfect: big enough for cutting, yet small enough to not be in the way or take up too much room on my kitchen counter.
I keep my cutting surfaces clean and right-away clean, but no worries with these mats anyway. They do NOT retail odors, not even onion odor. Yea! Love that.
The best feature of these wonderful flexible cutting boards is the price. I got mine for $5.00, and that was for all 3. What a deal.
That's it for today, blog.
