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Doesn't wood kill bacteria? I'm pretty sure that's why you're supposed to use a wood cutting board for meat
HIV, AIDS, Herpes =/= bacteria...
Just in case you're serious or if someone else didn't know. Wood does not kill bacteria.
Wood is used in cutting boards because it was an available material that was shapeable, cleanable, and didn't destroy the knife edge.
Didn't even bother looking it up, huh?
I swear I learned that in home economics almost 15 years ago
Edit: https://hardwoodreflections.com/is-wood-naturally-antibacterial/
Edit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113021/
I also remember in my school smth about it.
But I am certain that a Bench with treated wood would not have the same characteristics from a cuttinf board. So maybe the idea could not be applied to a bench
I learned that wood boards are better than plastic, because plastic gets tiny grooves from cutting where bacteria can grow inside. With wood, those tiny grooves naturally close since wood "swells" when it gets wet.
The wood also absorbs the bacteria, bacteria can't survive in wood Source