Meals served on wooden boards

[JohnF]

So, in a nutshell

Yes but how many meals would fit

Probably five or six if its the Megri Locanta we're talking about...

JF

[Scunner]

I agree but know you are over-replying with quote just to irritate me

[JohnF]

I agree but know you are over-replying with quote just to irritate me

Would I do that?

JF

[loz]

I like them, but a bugger when you have to decline the gravy

[janmack]

Hate having a meal served on a wooden platter...it just gives me the heebie jeebies.  Much prefer a nice plain white plate.

[Karennina]

Me too I just do not like it for hygiene reasons at all and also I am not so much OCD but peculiar as in my mind overthinks things and manages to conjure up the most bizarre scenarios, one of these is "what if there happens to be insects that have burrowed into the wood of said board" this could not happen on a normal ceramic plate... My foible is a cutlery inspection I would far rather take my own cutlery when we eat out anywhere at all      

[tinkerman]

How can a plank of wood be more resistant to Bacterial growth more so than a china plate?

[nichola]

I can reluctantly believe it if the comparison is about chopping boards plastic vs wooden but not about meals served on plates vs wooden boards.

I do know (because Doğan says so) that in Turkey wooden chopping boards are banned from restaurant kitchens and special plastic chopping boards of different colours for different food preparation are required.

[desmartinson]

Because there,s not so many Chinks in it Tinks.    

[Jacqui Harvey]

Since wooden butchers blocked were banned in the U.K. they have now sold like hot cakes to trendy people who want one in their kitchen.   They always make a lot of money at Auction usually around £300.00 and I have seen then on sale in Antique outlets for around £700.00.  They are so popular they are being reproduced now.
It's strange to think butchers used these all the time to cut the meat up and just wiped them down, no way could they be sterilised.