How to Choose the Best Wood for Cutting Boards

Back in the 1960's I was a meat cutter and all the butcher shops in western Canada used maple chopping blocks. These blocks were about 3' square and 2' thick. Then Health inforcement got involved. They decided that plastic was more hygienic. It was later shown that plastic harbored more bacteria then wood. Chopping block wood; maple and beech had a natural antibiotic activities. Testing showed lower levels of bacteria on wood then on plastic boards. I can not comment on other woods as my only experience is with Maple and Beech wood cutting boards.

Very informative and helpful. Thank you!

FANTASTIC VID THANK YOU!🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻

Great vídeo, learned so much, I have one made of Walnut and just ordered one made with maple, cherry, and walnut.

I enjoy open discussions on most subjects. I watch other people doing what I do in order to get new ideas and also what tools can do. I have have been around wood for 30+ years and still see new things. If I see something I don't like or have other opinion on it,it goes out the other ear. Sometimes the comments are as interesting as the video.

Wow, thank you so much. It was probably the best video I have seen in cutting board.

I have a small walnut cutting board since years, very handy and it's maintenance free. Yes they are the best with a pretty wood texture.

walnut and maple outstanding contrast and usefulness.

Fantastic explanation! Thanks.

I recently started sharpening my knives at home so looking out to change the bamboo board. Haven't got much knowledge about wood so I was just about to go find a carpenter for advice. But now as got my advice from this video I guess I'll go with wallnut as well. Thanks. Informative content 👍🏻

Very useful video, thanks for sharing it with us.

Excellent, very valuable information

My favorite Woods to use are black walnut cherry and Maple but I have a question concerning some of the Exotic Woods like zebra wood blood wood Paducah and some of the others

Hi Mischele ,thanks for the information about the choice of the wood to make cutting boards.I will love to use Cherry,maple and walnut.I love walnut for its beauty.just love walnut.when i become a good in wood woking i want to make a table with Walnut.

Very knowledgeable love the video!

Nice Video. I also use Bloodwood and yellowheart on my cutting boards.

Thank you for your advice now is more clear to me .questions I love purple heart can I use to give the pop color to the cutting board.

Thanks.. can we use teak wood?

I'm in the Philippines and I use a lot of Mango, Apple and Pear.

People use purple heart and mahogany quite a bit in their cutting boards. Also white oak is perfectly fine to use as a cutting board, as tests show. It's not quite an open pore wood. Red oak is the one you really don't want to use.