There isn't a best wood for a cutting board. There's the one that suits your kitchen and how you'll use it. Here is how the three I cut boards from compare, and the short answer if you'd rather not think about it. The short answer A gift that looks striking: walnut, or a maple-and-walnut stripe. A workhorse for daily chopping: maple. Something that changes as the years go by: cherry. Hard maple Creamy, nearly white, with a fine, tight grain. It's the classic butcher-block wood and the hardest of the...
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Wooden boards fail for one reason: water sitting in them. Here is the routine that keeps one going for decades, and how to rescue a board that has gone gray.
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