News — durable chopping boards

If you spend any time at all in the kitchen, your chopping board quietly does a lot of heavy lifting. It takes every slice, chop and Sunday roast carve, often several times a day. So when you are choosing between bamboo vs acacia chopping boards: which wins for durability in British homes, it is worth looking past the pretty grain and asking what will actually last on a busy worktop. Bamboo vs acacia: what are we really comparing? On paper, both bamboo and acacia sound ideal. They are natural materials, kind to your knives compared with glass or ceramic, and...

If you are choosing a new chopping board, you have probably come across two favourites: carbonised bamboo and acacia. Both look beautiful on the worktop, both feel reassuringly solid under the knife, and both have a reputation for being kinder to blades than glass or stone. But when it comes to hygiene and durability, which actually comes out on top? Let us walk through carbonised bamboo vs acacia: the ultimate comparison for hygiene and durability, with a few practical tips from the Deer & Oak kitchen along the way. What is carbonised bamboo and how is it different? Standard bamboo...