Add a good-looking but extremely practical software to your kitchen arsenal with this strong maple-wood edge-grain chopping board from John Boos. Measuring 24 by 18 by 1-1/four inches, the finely crafted board works properly for quite a lot of food-prep duties, whether or not chopping meat, slicing and dicing fruit and veggies, or mincing recent herbs. It comes with a routed drip groove that encircles the primary slicing area–perfect for catching run-off water and different liquids. Uniquely designed, the oval-shaped chopping board additionally comes outfitted with a counter clip that secures the board to a 90-degree, 1-1/2-inch-thick kitchen-counter nook angle for prolonged work-surface area.
Keep the chopping board clear by merely washing it with scorching soapy water after every use and dry it with a clear paper towel or let it air dry. The board was shipped from the manufacturing unit with Boos block board cream with beeswax, which permits for nice slicing, chopping, and slicing, however it’s necessary to offer the slicing board a superb oiling on all surfaces each three to 4 weeks. When the chopping board turns into dry and lighter in shade, it is time to re-oil, which is a simple solution to lengthen the lifetime of the board by a few years.
More interesting and engaging than plastic, a picket chopping board is a superb various to plastic chopping boards as it might inhibit micro organism progress, whereas plastic boards harbor micro organism within the grooves minimize into their floor. (Although Boos chopping boards don’t harbor micro organism, it’s a good behavior to make use of separate slicing boards for several types of meals prep.) Wood slicing boards are additionally simpler on knives, the place plastic boards can uninteresting knives shortly. Boos slicing boards are manufactured by John Boos & Co. in Effingham, Illinois, which has been manufacturing high-quality wooden slicing boards, butcher blocks, and counter tops since 1887.
