My largest hardwood cutting board recently split at a glue line. It had served me fairly well for years, but finding a replacement has been quite the challenge. However, I came across this board from Royal Craft Wood, recognizing it as the largest board I could buy at a reasonable price. Additionally, I've come to prefer my cooking utensils to be bamboo, which produce high quality, easily shaped items that are both sustainable and good looking. I suppose that comes from growing up in Hawaii. I really appreciated the recommendation to treat the cutting board with food grade silicon oil to help preserve it, as well as to prevent the board from drying out and cracking. I followed up on this recommendation by purchasing and treating the board with food grade silicon oil before using it for the first time. My two favorite things about this cutting board are the juice groove carved along the edges of the board, and the handhold cutouts on the sides. It's always been a challenge to keep juices and other liquids on the board surface, where cleanup is a lot easier. Further, when juices would run off the edges of my previous cutting board, it made it that much harder to pickup the board off the counter, due to the lack of handholds to help break the grip from the countertop. Both features on this board resolve these issues....no juice run off, and adequate hand holds to make cutting board movement easier. My only wish, and this is a request, not a criticism, is that an even larger sized board would be available. This board is perfect as a cutting board, but my wife also uses a cutting board as an empanada dough rollout board...where more surface area is highly desireable. Royal Craft Wood, if you read comments, please make a humongous bamboo cutting board. Something 16"x22" would be ideal.
