News — carbonized bamboo vs bamboo

If you have a bamboo chopping board and a darker carbonised bamboo board side by side, you might have noticed they behave a little differently when you oil them. One seems to drink oil, the other beads it on the surface. So when it comes to bamboo vs carbonised bamboo: which chopping board oils best? First things first: what is carbonised bamboo? Standard bamboo boards are made from pale, naturally coloured bamboo. Carbonised bamboo starts exactly the same way but the bamboo is steamed at high temperature. This darkens the sugars in the fibres, giving that rich caramel colour many...