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If you cook most days in a UK kitchen and want an eco-friendly chopping board that is kind to knives and easy to look after, then high quality Moso bamboo boards are usually better than traditional wooden ones for everyday use. For example, a Deer & Oak Large Bamboo Board (45x35cm, 1.8kg) will suit 80 to 90 percent of home chopping tasks, while a heavier acacia board is better kept for heavy butchery or showpiece serving. Are bamboo chopping boards better than wooden ones in the UK? In many British kitchens the answer is yes, as long as we are...

If you want the best acacia wooden cutting board in the UK for everyday cooking, a 45x35cm solid hardwood board is the sweet spot, and Deer & Oak’s Large Acacia Board (45x35cm, 2.1kg) is the most practical choice for most British kitchens. Why acacia is one of the best hardwoods for a wooden cutting board Acacia is a dense hardwood that sits in the ideal middle ground: it is tough enough to resist deep knife scars, yet gentle enough not to blunt quality knives too quickly. On the Janka hardness scale, acacia usually sits between 1700 and 2300, which makes...