Beauty and function.
This is a beautiful cutting board. It's not heavy, which is good for people with weak wrists like me, but it's pretty durable. It’s a nice quality board. I actually bought this to use as a cutting board/serving tray for a New Year's Eve feast. I really like the way it looks, so I wanted to show it off. I'll be hanging it on my wall to keep it handy while also adding to the décor of my kitchen. I also like that my knives don't feel like they're being dulled when I'm using this cutting board.I’ve never been much of one for wooden cutting boards, but now that I’m learning how to take care of them I’m loving my wood. I just have to keep reminding everyone that they don’t go in the dishwasher. I’ll definitely be getting more of these wooden cutting boards, I need different sizes.
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Beautiful and Gentle on Knives
The warping rumors are true, and I had an issue with it once. I flattened it back out by putting another cutting board on it and sitting a 50 lb dumbbell on top for a day or so. Be careful about inconsistent wetting (only on one side).Other than that, I love this thing. It’s beautiful, small and handy, and I’m comfortable using any of my knives on it, including my Shun Western Classic chef’s knife. Works just like an endgrain cutting board should.
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Thin
It looks very nice, good size, the wood pattern is pretty. But it is very thing for a wooden cutting board.
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Randomguy2020
April 13, 2022
Very Disappointed
I only used it a small handful of times for a few months. I'd wash it and dry it immediately every time. I have two bigger cutting boards from this company and they both work well so I didn't expect anything less. Yesterday, I saw a crack in the board. I was disappointed to see it so soon. Then today, the board warped to the point where I can let my neighbor to spin the bottle with. I am very disappointed to say the least. I will be moving on with another brand should I need another end grain cutting board
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Good size and good for my knives
It fits in my kitchen drawer and is light weight, could be hung on a wall if I had any wall space. Aside from its convenience, this is easy on my knives and does the job. Glad I found it.
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Great quality for price
Really good quality end-grain cutting board for the price. Also, I like that it’s mid-sized and lightweight
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Fanastic for western knives, but too hard for japanese knives
This is my second one of these - I had one a few years ago that I completely destroyed when I refinished my cast iron pans and the wood became completely impregnated with iron filings. My bad. Got another one and I love it. A nice trade-off between the convenience of a plastic cutting mat and the solidity of an actual cutting board/block- it's small and light and thin so you can easily transport food after cutting.I will say this, however - because it's important to keep in mind. If you're here, you may be looking at this because it's an END GRAIN cutting board, and end grain cutting boards are supposed to be a bit easier on the edge of your good knives than long grain boards, and much easier on them than plastic boards or mats. Problem is that end grain cutting boards generally have to be big and thick, so they're both unwieldy and expensive.Generally speaking, this is all correct. But keep in mind, Acacia is a VERY hard wood - it's almost twice as hard as walnut, cherry or maple. More eco-sensitive, since it's more of a grass and it grows very quickly, but that hardness is undoing a lot of the point of buying a board like this in the first place. So what I would recommend is that if you have a normal Western-style knife - Wusthoff, Sabatier, normal thick, hearty, etc. - they'll be fine with a board like this. But if you happen to have a very thin, very sharp (often very expensive) carbon steel japanese knife, you really need to pair that with something made from Walnut, Maple, Cherry or another non-poisonous (check first on exotics!) relatively soft wood, it it should be at least 1.5in thick.For the vast, vast majority of people, this is going to be perfectly fine. But for the more delicate japanese knives, go for something more traditional.
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