Should I continue to eat from a wooden bowl? Wood appears to have antiseptic properties. Plastic cultivates germs if unwashed. The myth that wood was evil was introduced to sell more plastic boards in the late 80s but remained untested until 1993. Read on:
Researchers at the Institute intentionally contaminated both wooden cutting boards and plastic ones with all types of bacteria that cause food poisoning. They then tested the boards regularly, without washing or touching them, to see what happened to the bacteria. Surprisingly, all of the bacteria on the wooden board dried off within three minutes. On the plastic board, the bacteria not only remained alive but actually multiplied overnight.
The explanation for the dramatic results is that wood has a natural bacteria-killing property, which plastic does not. Source: Wood or Plastic? Myths about Healthy Chopping Boards
