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Re: question about the metric system
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Date: 
Tue, 7 May 2002 00:58:40 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
I remember reading something in one of my dad's (surely totally unbiased)
woodworking magazines a while ago about how wooden cutting boards are
actually better than plastic ones -- the plastic boards get little cuts all
over where the bacteria dig in and live happily, whereas bacteria that get
into the wood are largely killed by natural antibacterials in the wood
itself.

Yes, but plastic ones can be run through the dishwasher.  Wooden ones
don't last long if you try that ...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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(...) I remember reading something in one of my dad's (surely totally unbiased) woodworking magazines a while ago about how wooden cutting boards are actually better than plastic ones -- the plastic boards get little cuts all over where the bacteria (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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