They are all different and created to take advantage of the natural and varying characteristics of the wood. A wooden chopping board shouldn’t be exposed to lots of water as it might warp or crack, and if you’re a real geek you should treat it with oil to keep it shipshape. Wooden boards are great for bread and carving meat – they often have a little moat for catching juices. Some of these planks are huge, perhaps 4-5 meters long, 100mm thick, and weigh 250kg whereas some are just big enough to make a single board.

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Grooves on either side led to a narrowed ‘slope’ at one end of the board, great for sliding chopped ingredients into a pan easily. A bad chopping board will crack under pressure (quite literally), warp in heat, spill juices all over your work surface and harbour nasty bacteria if you’re not careful when washing it. It may seem strange to get excited about a slab of oak, but this expertly handcrafted piece would make a beautiful wedding gift or family heirloom. If the board has one waney / live edge then this will be the lower side of the board and the engraving will be on the top.Yes, it’s far more expensive than any other board here, but its style and quality are another level. Many people like a solid wooden board, some of which are good-looking enough to double as a serving platter. This option, from British company Robert Welch, is made with a smooth, solid oak that’s a nice alternative to the usual style.

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The kiln-dried process that our chopping boards go through ensures that they are ideal for interior use and will have minimal further movement in the future. Nevertheless, this bargain performed well, cleaning like a dream in the dishwasher and stashing away snugly in the narrowest of cupboard spaces. Verified Reviewer We bought this place over the edge of the worktop on our kitchen island and it looks great! You’ll need to wash this by hand, but it scrubbed up well and the purple beetroot stains came out with no problem. You’re unlikely to run out of space when you’re using this chunky, solid wood board, which measures in at a hefty 46 x 34cm.No marks: we put each board through a rigorous test of chopping and hacking with a sharp knife to check whether the surface was left with irremovable marks. Your chopping board will come hand sanded to a smooth finish and will be sent with a food-safe protective Board Butter (a blend of natural beeswax and food-grade oils, all produced and sourced in Wales). In a choice of two different colourways, either brights or greys, each one is in a different shade, so you could decide to keep one solely for veg, meat or strongly-flavoured foods such as spices and fish. As an extra bonus, they have ml/cup measurements, though as they are black-on-black, they aren’t always easy to read.

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Chopping boards naturally suffer wear-and-tear, but we wouldn’t expect them to damage easily on first use. We poured water over boards with moats to check whether the groove captured all the liquid – in an everyday kitchen, a substandard moat equals wasted meat juices. Our selection of available timber is broad and includes English / Scottish Ash, English Oak, French Oak, American Black Walnut, American Sugar Maple, English Sycamore, Croation Walnut, English Walnut, American Black Cherry, and English Elm to name but a few. We liked an outstanding design feature of this bamboo choice – an ingenious lip at the front edge which butted securely against the counter to make slicing and chopping safe and secure.

The natural waney edge is left on one long side and stripped of bark, two rustic sides are also possible for custom boards. Strong, flexible and one of the world's fastest growing plants – bamboo has many uses that make it an excellent renewable material. Excellent chopping board Verified Reviewer This board protects my new worktops perfectly, I have one each side of the hob so I can dump hot pans down, or chop vegetables straight into the pans. Love the large chopping board, it was exactly as described, the engraving was perfect and the well wrapped package arrived sooner than expected.