How to get rid of odors on a cutting Board

Before you cut the fish, chop garlic or onions, moisten cutting Board 9% vinegar or wipe a slice of lemon.

If your cutting Board was a smell of fish, sprinkle it with vinegar, diluted with water in ratio of 1:1, or lemon juice.

The smell of sour cabbage, garlic or fish can be removed, if you wash the cutting Board with hot salt water (4 tablespoons salt per gallon of water) or warm water with dissolved in it with vinegar (2 tablespoons of vinegar in 2 liters of water).

If cutting boards the unpleasant smell of raw meat, soak it for half an hour in hot water with the crushed charcoal (100 grams per liter). Instead of coal you can use a pinch of ground coffee. Then thoroughly rinse the Board under running water with a flavored liquid funds for washing dishes.

If your cutting Board is made of food grade plastic, to get rid of unpleasant odors, wash the surface with water with addition of baking soda or wipe with a cloth dipped in vinegar, rinse.

To get rid of a musty odor emanating from the wooden cutting boards, intensively RUB it with coffee grounds and leave for a few minutes. Then clean the kitchen tool under hot running water.

Wipe the Board dry mustard powder or sleep tea, to get rid of the smell of herring. Well neutralize this "flavor" fresh milk. Simply wipe the cutting Board with a sponge dipped in cold milk.

When choosing cutting boards, keep in mind the fact that glass and plastic boards are the least prone to absorb odours than wood. You should also take into account that boards with a corrugated surface harder to clean, and thus the problems with odors will be more.

Use at least three or four boards for different food groups and immediately after cooking, thoroughly wash them in hot water with addition of special funds for the dishes. The probability of occurrence of strong odors, with such care for kitchen tools would be minimal.