Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic has become a mainstay of our daily lives. Ever since synthetic plastic was first invented in the early 20th century and ...

The USDA & FDA have declared wood and nonporous surfaces (like plastic, marble, and glass) safe for food preparation. Plastic cutting boards wear with daily use and should be replaced when they ...

Everyone has one: a scratched, stained plastic cutting board that’s been in your kitchen for years. Despite how many times you say to yourself, “I should get a new one,” you never do — but now, it’s ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Long ago, humans chopped and ground meats ...

Your kitchen isn’t complete without a cutting board – or two, or three. They're not just useful tools, they're integral to safe and efficient food preparation. Depending on what you are using it for, ...

When trying to equip a kitchen quickly or affordably, we reflexively choose the budget buy. That almost always means plastic cutting boards. While plastic boards have plenty of plus points — they ...

There is so much discourse about microplastics these days that people are more scared of their cutting boards than they are of their knives, and it’s probably got you wondering: Should you even be ...