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What material is good for chopsticks?

Chopsticks with good materials include wooden chopsticks, metal chopsticks and plastic chopsticks.

1, wooden chopsticks?

Natural bamboo chopsticks are non-toxic, environmentally friendly and cheap, so they are the first choice. Good quality bamboo chopsticks will not deform at high temperature. Wooden chopsticks are common in the market. Mahogany, nanmu, jujube and holly can all be used to make chopsticks, and ebony chopsticks with hard texture are the most valuable. Bamboo chopsticks and wooden chopsticks are easy to be infected with microorganisms and bacteria during use. Pay attention to frequent disinfection and keep them clean.

2. Metal chopsticks?

Clean and practical silver chopsticks and stainless steel chopsticks look pleasing to the eye, but compared with other chopsticks, they are heavier and feel bad, especially for children and the elderly. In addition, their thermal conductivity is very strong, and eating overheated food is easy to burn your lips. However, metal chopsticks are very convenient to clean, just rinse them with boiling water and wipe them with napkins, and they are also easy to disinfect; It is not easy to deform after heating.

3. Plastic chopsticks

Cheap plastic chopsticks are not only cheap, but also colorful and varied. However, plastic chopsticks are brittle, and they are easy to deform and melt after being heated, resulting in harmful substances.

Etiquette for using chopsticks:

1, don't put the food back after you pick it up.

2. You can't use chopsticks to point at people or point fingers with chopsticks when eating.

Don't insert chopsticks into a bowl of rice or rice. This is the way the ancestral offerings are placed, which is ominous. See the end of the meal.

4. Don't compete with other people's chopsticks.

5. Don't move chopsticks in front of the host when going to dinner (the same is true for spoons).

6. In some countries, we will wait for the guests (or the oldest person present) to start eating.

7. In the process of eating, you raised your chopsticks, but you didn't know which dish to eat. At this time, you can't move chopsticks back and forth in each dish or swim in the air, and turn around on the dish without picking it up.