I do care about sanitation and cleanliness, so I have multiple board types at home - from the thin plastic sized mats, to a heavier Joseph Joseph style plastic and then an anti-bacterial wood cutting board I received as a gift. Despite all these options, I reach for the thin plastic mats 99.5% of the time. They are larger in surface area which is great! They are easy to clean up, and quite frankly pretty cheap to replace when they do start to get scarred. I do wish they could make them about twice as thick just to give them more weight, but I have little complaint otherwise.
While the other boards I have are nice, they’re just not as easy. Being a small person, it’s just hard to lift giant chunks of wood or steel (ugh, cast iron!) constantly, and maneuver them for cleaning.
