Product Overview
** This product does not qualify for any shipping discount rates
This is our 12"x18" by 1.5 " thick (+/- 3/8") professional series edge grain cutting board, it is a heavy duty cutting board for the professional or the serious home cook. This is the perfect sized board for someone who cooks large meals, chops meat, and works their cutting boards heavily.
It is hand made with care in Canada using edge grain hard maple and other all natural, and completely non-toxic materials.
On this cutting board we have exposed the edge grain (as apposed to the face grain on our All Natural Series one piece cutting boards). What this does is produces a more durable surface (edge grain is tough) that does not soak up moisture as easily as face grain or end grain boards. It is also a little easier on your knife blades than face grain cutting boards.
We glue up WIDE STRIPS of Hard Maple not small offcuts like others use. Why? because this makes us use less glue and makes a beautiful heavy duty, high quality cutting board. We ONLY USE FDA APPROVED FOR INDIRECT FOOD CONTACT waterproof glue (please try contacting the foreign company that your current cutting board is made by and ask them if they use toxic glues, we bet you won't like what you hear). MSDS available.
Hard Maple is one of the hardest, and most durable woods, and can withstand heavy use in a kitchen. ALL professional grade butcher block and cutting boards are made of Hard Maple. It is a closed grained hardwood (unlike oak, etc) that doesn't absorb bacteria easily, and with antibacterial properties on top of that it makes it the most preferred wood for cutting boards and wooden utensils.
The completely non-slip feet on this cutting board are made of hand cut all natural gum rubber, yes, natural rubber from a tree, NOT PVC or synthetic rubber, and they are affixed to the board with high grade stainless steel screws that will NEVER rust.
This cutting board is made from virgin North American Hard Maple ONLY, not a mix of whatever species of scrap wood a company finds or has reclaimed from an object that could have previously used a toxic finish. It contains only FDA approved for indirect food contact glues and only to attached the strips of wood, we use NO wood fillers, epoxies, or other filling materials to fix blemishes on out cutting boards, if there is a blemish we feel is deep enough or in an area that would harbor bacteria, we do not use that piece of wood. Also, ALL wooden cutting boards, (and really anything made of wood) will display some movement with moisture from even weather change, this is not a defect if it happens, you usually avoid any noticeable movement by keeping your board dry and well oiled.
** This product does not qualify for any shipping discount rates and ONLY ships to USA and Canada.
Please Note:
There can be natural discolorations, spalting, mineral staining and other natural imperfections, there is no such thing as perfect with natural wood
-If you do not want your cutting board to contain any glues and be all natural, please see our All Natural Series line of cutting boards.
