This trick makes cutting food easier and safer.

If you don’t anchor your board, it slowly creeps back as you cut."

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4 Super-Easy Ways to Anchor Your Cutting Board

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A person cutting celery on a cutting board next to a stack of bowls. In the surroundings, more produce (more sticks of celery, apples, oranges, and a bag with more oranges). Around the photo, fund yellow and white dotted illustrations

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Damp Paper Towel:This is the method I have used for more than 20 years.

You simply dampen a paper towel and lay it out flat on the counter underneath your cutting board.

It works like magic to keep the board from slipping.

A person wearing a yellow shirt cuts a small bundle of parsley on a cutting board on a mat, and on the board with the parsley, tomatoes and green onions. In on the counter around the cutting board, a glass of wine and more produce (cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes on a vine, limes and lemons, and green onions.

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Foam Drawer Liner:Chef Matijevich’s favorite cutting board anchor is a piece of foam drawer liner.

These tend to be dishwasher safe so it’s easy to keep them clean.

However, there are some caveats if you go this route.

That is another reason I like the foam drawer linerit doesn’t need to be wet.

Wet towels also have a tendency to trap bacteria under the board."

So drop an anchor, and avoidslip-and-slide disasters.