On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:48:30 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:
>I'm shopping for a new cutting board. My old wooden one is reversible
>with a chopping side with a useless narrow trough that only served to
>catch chopped bits that were annoying to get out on one side and a
>side with a jus trough and "holder" points on the other. I was looking
>at a bamboo cutting board, which claims to be stronger than maple and
>absorbs 16% less moisture, that is strictly a chopping board with no
>whistles or bells, but strikes my fancy:
>
>http://www.cutleryandmore.com/details.asp?SKU=5445
>
>And a kinda cool looking maple board that overhangs the counter, so
>you can sweep the cut veggies, etc., off the board into, say, a
>waiting hand-held pot or bowl.
>
>http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/...ting-board.htm
>
I don't like the look of either of those boards... if I want to sweep
stuff off the board into a pot I usually pick up the board and take it
to the stove rather than vice-versa - who wants to carry hot pots
around the kitchen? Or else I'd slide the board forward a bit and do
it that way... no need for a fancy lip or corners to catch grot.
And I don't really see how the board needs feet to stand on. What if
one of them breaks off for some reason? Then you'd have a lopsided
board to contend with...
I always used wooden cutting boards - just your regular everyday
hunk-o-wood, and they worked just fine. The worst problem they had was
water gradually eroding the glue joins so that they split, but since
we never bought expensive ones it wasn't a big deal to go out and get
another... We also had a solid board that got very scratched and
dented by the knife, and Dad planed it off and we reoiled it...
Nowadays I have a big glass cutting board. Not my preferred material
but my husband got it free. And I have a small wooden breadboard
because I don't want to have to slice bread on the same board as the
raw meat! (If I'm doing salad with the meal and the cutting board has
already been used for meat, I'll just slice it up on a plate since
there are only two of us...)
My favourite board was the solid slab of wood...