7 people cite hygiene across 4 products: 4 in favour, 4 against.
This page is the evidence: every claim citing hygiene, in favour and against, with no argument attached. Where the evidence adds up to a finding, it is written up separately, checked line by line against the claims below.
I use these chopping boards, which are Apex chopping boards, they have a softness to them. So, if you sort of take a chopping knife, there is a softness. There's a grip from these chopping boards that are really is really nice. They don't absorb.
Cites hygiene, knife friendliness
I prefer a sort of heavy duty one because they're so much more durable they can be flipped over the minute you want to go from vegetables to prepping fish or meat
Cites durability, hygiene
wood has some natural antibacterial properties. Uh, so they actually end up um generally with less bacterial uh buildup on them than a plastic cutting board does. They also don't get microlastics um into your food the way that plastic cutting boards does.
Cites edge retention, hygiene, safety
So, if you've ever had like you're slicing scallions and you end up with like the scallion cat caterpillar where they're kind of sliced through most of the way but a little bit connected, um the odds of that happening are much higher on a on a hard cutting board. So, wood is great because um the blade actually sinks…
a good cutting board should last you a super long time and using wood has a lot of antibacterial materials in there which is awesome but of course it's up to you to keep it clean keep it oiled up it will last you forever
Cites hygiene, durability
Hygiene given as a reason not to buy. Where both lists are long, hygiene is a trade-off rather than a feature.
So, I did that and like they're just stained. They're stained on the outside. They're stained on the inside. And I know that I can like go get some Barkeeper's Friend or some pink stuff and get probably like a Scrub Daddy and like really scrub it down and they'll look fine. However, why do I need to do all that when…
Cites appearance (against), coating durability (against), ease of cleaning (against), hygiene (against)
The coating on my Hexclad pots and pans is chipping away. Like I said, I'm not aggressive with these. I'm not putting harsh cleaners on there. I'm not using like a wire mesh brush or anything on here. I'm just like boiling water. It's chipping off and getting into the food.
especially because the pots I only use to like boil water and like why are they chipping? It's been less than 2 years and they should not be chipping. This is totally unacceptable.
And I don't like using knife rolls because I find the fabric getting gross and dirty and it's hard to clean.
Cites hygiene (against), ease of cleaning (against)
the $60 pan performed the same or better in actual cooking tests. You can’t tell the difference between two pieces of salmon cooked in each pan, and the cheaper pan actually did a better job searing pork chops.
Cites ease of cleaning (against), hygiene (against), searing and crust (against)
Besides that, this pan is incredibly heavy at almost 6 pounds, and there’s a gap between the pan and the handle where moisture and bacteria can get trapped.
you're only supposed to go for so long and then you got to give the motor a break this motor can get hot you can feel it up here getting hot
Cites heat control (against), hygiene (against), noise (against), power and output (against)
pretty loud but like I said it hasn't you know we've been using it for years it works really great
one negative I would give is when you do got a dough in there like especially sourdough that thing's cranking this thing is really working and this you know you think it's going to fall apart because this is like really jamming around
you'll see that it can like work its way up over that if it got it on there there's a good chance you might have got some of that in whatever you're making