We just acquired a bamboo cutting board. The tag says that bamboo is 16% harder than maple. Is this extra hardness a good or bad thing? For example, is bamboo too hard for knives, and will we need to sharpen them more often than if we use our other wooden boards? Thanks for any advice. (For email, remove "zz" from the address.)
I don't know, but I'd like to hear what your experience is. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Louis Cohen Living la vida loca at N37° 43' 7.9" W122° 8' 42.8" "CL" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > We just acquired a bamboo cutting board. The tag says that bamboo is 16% harder than maple. > > Is this extra hardness a good or bad thing? > > For example, is bamboo too hard for knives, and will we need to sharpen them > more often than if we use our other wooden boards? > > Thanks for any advice. (For email, remove "zz" from the address.)
We just got a pretty bamboo cutting board, which may or may not be like what you had in mind.... It's actually lots of tiny little bamboo stalks packed together, and cut crosswise (as opposed to longitudinally), so that you're really looking down into the teeny little stalks all packed in next to each other. There is no space in between any of the stalks, and it's sanded down to be extremely smooth. It feels for all the world like a solid piece of wood It performs very well as a cutting board. I was very afraid to cut strawberries on it, for fear that it would stain, but it's still pristine. And it seems soft enough that you could nick it with the tip of a knife, so I don't worry about it damaging my knives, but yet it still looks brand new despite months of daily use. Love mine. -Jen Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:28:18 -0600, "CL" <[email protected]> wrote: >We just acquired a bamboo cutting board. The tag says that bamboo is 16% harder than maple. > >Is this extra hardness a good or bad thing? > >For example, is bamboo too hard for knives, and will we need to sharpen them more often than if we >use our other wooden boards? > >Thanks for any advice. (For email, remove "zz" from the address.) > I have not used a bamboo cutting board but have used a number of laminated bamboo materials; most of which were originally intended as strip flooring. Given that the material (bamboo) is similar, I would expect the end product to have similar properties. The only problem with the flooring that I have found is in cutting it with power tools. The bamboo seems to me to have a higher proportion of adhesives compared to similar veneered wood products, leading to more burning if the match of blade and blade speed is wrong. Bamboo also contains a relatively high proportion of silica, that might cause some dulling if you sawed on the cutting board with a knife. Not something that I would think very important. How was the board finished? What maintenance is suggested?
On 29 Feb 2004 04:50:30 GMT, [email protected] (JLove98905) wrote: >We just got a pretty bamboo cutting board, which may or may not be like what you had in mind.... > >It's actually lots of tiny little bamboo stalks packed together, and cut crosswise (as opposed to >longitudinally), so that you're really looking down into the teeny little stalks all packed in next >to each other. There is no space in between any of the stalks, and it's sanded down to be extremely >smooth. It feels for all the world like a solid piece of wood > {...] Jen, Could you post a clue as to the source? (URL, manufacturer, seller?) I am interested in the material more than this particular use of it. thanks,
B.Server wrote: ... > Jen, > > Could you post a clue as to the source? (URL, manufacturer, seller?) I am interested in the > material more than this particular use of it. > > thanks, http://www.totallybamboo.com/tbwebstore/category.cfm?category=16 cheer, srl.
On 2004-02-29, JLove98905 <[email protected]> wrote: > We just got a pretty bamboo cutting board, which may or may not be like what you had in mind.... Bamboo is great in the kitchen. It's bullet proof and never stains. So, I was expecting no problems when I bought a beautiful bamboo cutting board to use at a cheese tasting. It was as you discribe, only different colors of bamboo in a very ornate design. Unfortunately, dispite never immersing the board (just wiped it), when I pulled it out at the party, I noticed it had cracked open in 3 places. It cracked in one other place before I could return it, completely unused. nb
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:21:22 -0500, Some Random Luser <[email protected]> wrote: >B.Server wrote: ... >> Jen, >> >> Could you post a clue as to the source? (URL, manufacturer, seller?) I am interested in the >> material more than this particular use of it. >> >> thanks, > >http://www.totallybamboo.com/tbwebstore/category.cfm?category=16 > >cheer, srl. Many thanks.
