tekobo Posted 9 hours ago Report Posted 9 hours ago Hi there. I am about to dive down a new rabbit hole and I thought I would drop by and see if you could help me dig deeper. A number of top UK chefs recommend the Apex cutting boards. They are eye wateringly expensive if you search generally on the web but I managed to track down the UK source and managed to get it down to a manageable £165: https://rowandsons.co.uk/collections/chefs-at-home/products/apex-cutting-board I then did some more searching to confirm or change my choice and found this YouTube video in which asahi and hasegawa cutting boards are recommended. They are more reasonably priced and the Black Friday sales would be a good option for renewing our very old stack of cutting boards. We would keep the good wooden ones for serving and chopping but a fresh set for fish, meat and veg prep would be great. Grateful for your views and recommendations before I pull the trigger. Quote
5698k Posted 4 hours ago Report Posted 4 hours ago I use Hi Soft, very similar to asahi, and i love them. I’m a bit of a knife snob, all my knives are carbon steel, with very fine, sharp edges. I sharpen at roughly 12* per side. My point is that even with these edges, these boards are great because they dont affect my edges at all. I can easily go a year between sharpenings, and even then, the edges are never damaged because of cutting surface. They’re also very sanitary, they dont gouge like other synthetics, which is where bacteria grow. They’re also very can be bleached or sanded, should the need ever arise. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote
C6Bill Posted 4 hours ago Report Posted 4 hours ago I have a couple but nothing extravagant, typically I just grab my OXO when chopping veggies or my Boos block for meat. I go to a restaurant if i want fish, i just don't cook it at home. So long story short, i can't help you lol Quote
Syzygies Posted 9 minutes ago Report Posted 9 minutes ago (edited) HASEGAWA PRO-SOFT RUBBER WOOD CORE CUTTING BOARD FSR 19.7" X 13.8" X 0.8" HT Traveling solo in Japan, I'd often sit at bars where I could watch chefs work. I learn, and I have always taught my math students to learn, by absorbing the mindsets of others I admire. Cooking isn't following lists of ingredients. This is the class of board I always saw at the stations that relied on knife technique. I now have several sizes, duplicated when I had two kitchens. I consider these the canonical answer to your question, with the same certainty as "the JVR Vac-100 is far and away the best entry level chamber vacuum machine" (again I bought one for each kitchen, in each case replacing a far clunkier VacMaster). They do stain. One can ignore this, or soak with a mixture of bleach and water. My "Made in Japan" hall of fame also includes items one would expect to buy from China: the best cleaver and best wok I've ever owned, again duplicated while I had two kitchens. We saw the New York wok last night in constant use yesterday at a California friends' Thanksgiving, for various veggie sides. They ship worldwide: Tojiro DP 3-Layer Chinese Cleaver 225mm (thin blade) Yamada Hammered Iron Round Bottom Wok (1.6mm Thickness) Yamada Hammered Iron Flat Bottom Wok (1.6mm Thickness) Edited 6 minutes ago by Syzygies Quote
