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Cutting boards have grooves for you to clean. They get knife damage, even the ones that are made of consistently dimpled plastic. Wooden cutting boards are often made of more than one piece to begin with. Plus, many of us just treat them badly, leaving them out, using them as hot plates, only washing them when we actually cut something with moisture, like meat. This means they can pick up stains too.
 
So how do you really clean all those little knife grooves? Do you pour vinegar over them until you can’t feel your nose?
 
This idea from Rachel at All Kinds of Yumm kicks bacterial butt. Take half a lemon and rub the juice all over the cutting board. Then coat the juiced surface with kosher salt. After letting it soak for 15 minutes, use the lemon to scrub the salt all over the board. Don’t ask me why, but kosher salt is a different crystal shape than regular table salt, and it scrubs stains. Lemon is a disinfectant acid that smells way better than other chemicals or vinegar. After all that, you don’t need soap. Just rinse off your cutting board, get the other half of your lemon, and do the same thing on the other side.
 
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