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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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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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