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If you spend any time at all cooking at home, your chopping board quickly becomes the unsung hero of your kitchen. It takes the knife marks, the beetroot stains and the Sunday roast carving, then quietly goes back for more. So when you are choosing a new board, it is worth asking: is carbonised bamboo really better than traditional wood for a busy UK kitchen, or is it just a trend with a fancy name? What on earth is carbonised bamboo? Let us clear this up first. Standard bamboo boards are made from fast growing bamboo that is cut into...

If you care about what you cook, you probably care what you cook on. In UK kitchens, two natural materials keep popping up in the search for a more sustainable chopping board: bamboo and acacia. Both look beautiful, both feel lovely under the knife, and both claim to be eco friendly. But when it comes to bamboo vs acacia: which chopping board wins for UK sustainability? Bamboo vs acacia: what are they, really? Let’s start with the basics. Bamboo is actually a fast growing grass, not a tree. Some species can grow over 60 cm in a single day. That...