Cutting Boards - I'll Take Mine in Wood Thank You

Wood cutting boards give you convenience of small to large enough to handle your most pressing needs with a knife and a board.

There are many advantages of using wood for your cutting boards. First, they feel great under your fingers, you wash them is hot soapy water, they don't hurt your knives AND they don't allow bacteria to grow. Surprisingly enough, bacteria has been found on plastic cutting boards hours after they were used, cleaned and put away. I don't like that.

You really should have more than one cutting board. Use one for cutting raw meat, one for vegetables, one for cooked meat and one for cheese. This is my opinion but it make sense since you will be using different knives for the different functions I outlined.You would never serve fruit and cheese on a board that you cut meat on - would you?

There is another thing too about wood cutting boards, after a while, the surfaces will become scarred from the edges of your cutting down against the wood. Don't throw your board away, rather take it to the garage and sand it down. (You cannot do that with plastic or you shouldn't.)

I have had several of my boards for a very long time and they have many more years in them.

Butcher block was first used as strangely enough, in butcher shop for cutting up meat. (Could that be there they got their name??) The construction makes them exceeding strong and are designed to last a long time. A friend of mine brought one back from Finland that he bought in an antique store with papers that stated it was over an hundred years old. He brought it home and put it to work in his kitchen, which was definitely a luxury kitchen.

Anyway, the cutting board picture with the John Boos name branded in it,  gives you a lovely example of the method of construction called cross cut. You would not be sorry it you choose a board like this to add to your collection of cutting boards.

Bamboo is an amazing plant. Did you know it is classified as a grass? That means when it is harvested for its 'wood', it just grows back quickly. In fact, a cut over section of bamboo is ready for the next cutting in about four years (as opposed to 70+ years for a hardwood forest.) Really quite interesting. Bamboo can be harvested for food, cloth (softer silk and more absorbent than cotton), paper and also it's wood qualities. It is disease resistant and does not need to be fertilized. It is an amazing plant.

The beauty of bamboo can be seen in the above cutting board. So consider   buying a bamboo cutting board when you are in need of another board.