On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:29:45 -0500, Goomba >
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>I've always admired the well made John Boos maple cutting boards after
>seeing them and having read Sheldon's praise of them years ago.
>I recently broke my smaller most used board and am looking to replace
>it. BedBath&Beyond has decent prices on the Boos boards, but they also
>have the new bamboo boards which I know from flooring use is very, very
>hard. It could actually be too hard for comfort, I'm thinking?
>Does anyone have a bamboo board and how do they like it?

I have two bamboo boards - a big one for general kitchen use and a
very small one for setting out with, say, a whole lime with cocktail
fixin's. I prefer the bamboo over my old maple, which eventually
sagged in the middle like a tired mattress. Made me wonder how much
maple I'd included in the food I was preparing The bamboo seems to
clean better and dry faster. Insofar as I generally steel the knife
I'm getting ready to use, I can't comment on whether bamboo bends a
blade more easily than maple.

And, FWIW, my big bamboo board is from "Totally Bamboo."

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"

-- W.C. Fields

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