OXO Good Grips Utility Cutting Board

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The teak was hard enough to allow for clean cuts, but still soft enough to maintain a knife’s sharp edge. If you're a bit of a brute in the kitchen (and no judgment if you are—it's your home, cut as you please), you probably don't want to sink your money into one of these. Plastic is a better surface for prepping raw meat, as it’s less likely to stain and can be washed in a dishwasher or sanitized with a chlorine bleach solution. This beautiful, eco-conscious teak board requires more careful cleaning than a plastic board, but it feels better under a knife and is easier to maintain than the other wood boards we tested.

While cutting boards are meant to be a little soft to protect knife blades, this one is strong enough to last. Many plastic cutting boards can withstand the dishwasher without warping, but you can also just scrub them with hot soapy water. He previously reviewed products at Wirecutter, including mattresses, standing desks, and bike-commuting gear. We also cut carrots, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, and a variety of citrus fruits, noting the sound and feel of the boards, and whether they scarred. Proper Grip on both sides of the board so there's no slipping or sliding around whilst trying to chop\cut.It also took on deep orange and red stains after a run through the dishwasher, and it warped slightly.

Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Some of the plastic cutting board options out there only offer small and medium boards, leaving you in the lurch for the kind of cutting board you'd want for, say, butchering a chicken.For this review, we've examined plastic cutting boards to find our favorites—the most durable and gentlest on your knives. Regardless of how you submit your warranty registration, you MUST submit a copy of your purchase receipt along with your warranty registration. The grippy sides are also a slightly different shape, but none of these changes affected the board’s performance. Onion dicing felt good, carrot dicing was a bit loud, and a very sharp knife made mostly shallow surface scratches. While OXO’s Utility Cutting Board would be too small for carving a turkey, it handles most other kitchen uses with grace.

HEAVY DUTY FIVE PIECE SET FOR ALL FOOD TYPES: heavy duty cutting board set is perfect for all food types; mats can be used to chop or cut nearly any item of food, whether it be meat, chicken, fish, veggies, fruits or more; each board features a bold icon to help you identify which food you’re chopping, to help prevent cross contamination and make food prep easy.The OXO board is also louder to cut on than our wood picks, especially if you don’t have a thick towel or rag placed underneath it. Our solution was a bit of a hack, but we think it addressed these challenges well enough to make the results meaningful. Marketed as Hi-Soft when sold as a cutting board, polyvinyl acetate is, according to Wikipedia, also used to make various glues and, apparently, chewing gum. While we’ve tested many new products since then, we take time to revisit our previous recommendations to ensure they continue to meet our standards.