I cook at home every day and I love vegetables. So that means that I spend a lot of time with my cutting board. While my board works well as a cutting board it's rather large and bulky, and it only gets used to chop things and then sits back in the corner by itself. I wish it did more than just provide a safe place to mince, dice and chop. Maybe if it doubled as something else I'd find more appreciation for it. Here are five boards cute enough to show off all the time, not just when you have a knife in hand.
• Round Cutting Board by Joseph Joseph, $24.99 at Cambria Cove: Made from glass, this bright and cheerful cutting board also doubles as a trivet. Chop up vegetables for your favorite casserole and pop it in the oven, when it's ready plop it down on the now trivet to keep your counters safe.
• The OCD Chef, $24.99 at Perpetual Kid: Get a precise and beautiful chop on vegetables for important dishes or even if you're just a tad OCD. Besides chopping, this board is also perfect for pastry!
• Bowlboard, $69.00 at Yanko Design: When chopping multiple items on the cutting board I always line up bowls along the edge so I can easily scrape them into separate bowls. Instead of wasting bowls that I just have to hand wash later and making a mess all over the counter, the Bowlboard is a good alternative. The bowls fit in their own spaces on the cutting board and each vegetable (or whatever) can easily be slid into the bowl.
• Bole Werc Suuri, $90.00 at Supermarket: While this is actually being marketed as a moss planter, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be used as a double duty cutting board. It's made from Maple and with a good conditioning there's no reason why this board couldn't stand the test of time in the kitchen. Use the moss square to hold the bits and pieces you've already chopped so they don't fall all over the counter.
• Pull Out Chopping Block, DIY: This is an easy and extremely useful DIY that just about anyone could do. There are built-in cutting boards that can be installed with cabinets, so why not get a hole cut into the top and place your trash/composting bin below? It'll save a lot of time and effort and think about never having to clean up after a long prep!
Related: The Cutting Board as Serving Platter
(Images: Cambria Cove, Faith Durand, Yanko Design, Supermarket HQ, The Farm Chicks)
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All seem decent enough, but with the first one being made of glass, it will ruin your knives. Don't get it.
Oh yeah, please don't get a glass cutting board!
The OCD Chef cutting board actually looks pretty awesome.
Thirds on the "don't buy a glass cutting board!" Seriously...your knives...they'll thank you for using something else. It is pretty though!
This strikes me as one of those entries I'd file under "nonexistent problems." It's a cutting board. It's flat, and consequently, even a big one doesn't take up much space in the world -- if you need to, you can stick it under the sink, between the microwave and the toaster, wherever. But, yeah, I guess there has to be a market for those beautiful handcrafted ones with the $300-plus price tags.
Stay away from glass cutting boards!
I have to say I own the glass "cutting board" and I love it! I use it as a cheese platter, trivot, wine station and to hold fruit. It may not be the greatest cutting board, but it gets a lot of use in my kitchen
I second @cremedela. I don't see the problem. My bamboo cutting board takes up very little non-dedicated, non-intrusive space. I also use it as a trivet, cheese board, tray. It's used every day even if nothing's being diced/cut/chopped.
BTW, if that moss planter is stained it's a bad idea to use it to prep food.
I have two big wooden chopping boards and I use them all the time. Not just to chop things on, but also to serve cheese on and to serve main course platters on. A large joint of meat served on one at the table means everyone can help themselves. I even serve cake on them in the same way for dessert, with some little bowls of cream on the side.
My chopping boards are the most used items in my kitchen. Plus I bought quite simple designs - one plain and one butchers block style - and as they age they get beautifully coloured and marked with all the use they get.
Oh and I have two "worktop protectors" from Ikea. They are such thin plastic that you chop right on them and then you can pick them up and bend them to funnel the ingredients into the pan. Plus they're only about 2mm thick so they slide into the edge of my saucepan cupboard!
i got the glass joseph joseph cutting board for christmas and i love it (not as a cutting board, but decoration and serving) if im not using it, it stays on my living room table with candles on it.