Product Description

Our premium select grade of bamboo is 18% harder than rock maple, making it a superior material for cutting boards and home products. And, it's a totally sustainable natural resource. After harvesting bamboo it grows back quickly since the root system is so dense. Our bamboo products are handcrafted using small flattened bamboo strips glued and pressed together with approved food grade glue, no paints or stains are used. Through a heating process, the natural sugar in the Bamboo caramelizes and turns brown to create these beautiful colors. These cutting boards can simply wash off with soap and water. Oiling it with mineral oil will keep it looking new. Bamboo cutting boards make an attractive chopping surface.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80707 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: MIU
• Model: 90030
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 1.25" w x 6.50" l, 1.50 pounds

Features

• Bamboo is harder than maple wood
• Bamboo has a distinctive appearance of beauty
• 6.5" long, 6.5" wide, and 1.25" thick
• Conveniently sized chopping block great for heavy cuts of meat or vegetables
• Bamboo is a renewable resource

Customer Reviews

Won't hurt your expensive knives!
This particular board is made with the end-grain facing up - a must for those of you who have an investment in your cutting utensils. With the end grain up, your knives will not "cut" the board rather, they'll "slip between" the fibers thus protecting the ever important sharp edge of your knives.

I have three sizes of these bamboo boards and they are quite striking to look at with the two-tone colors. They are heavier than you'd think although slightly lighter than the same sized wood boards. I recommend you use food-grade mineral oil or bees wax on the board before you use it as the bamboo will absorb some coloring from items you cut. I also found that acidic foods will also stain the bamboo, even after treating the board first. That aside, these are very nice boards, thick and sturdy. Although I haven't had them long enough to say they won't crack, they seem very well constructed and don't have a grain pattern like wood so likely won't split like a wood board can do if you let it spend too much time soaking and/or let it dry out too much.

I like them and hope they give the years of service I expect from them.

Very Nice
I have all three sizes. These give the appearance of high quality. They are very nice looking, almost too good looking to use. Bamboo is a very tough surface, I can see that it is tougher than Maple. These are made with small pieces of bamboo glued together, I assume it will hold together over time. It also absorbs water less so than wood so is quicker to dry. I put some mineral oil on mine to protect the surface and the appearance. The only cavaet I see is that MUI uses a glue to hold on the label that you cannot totally remove. This is only at few small spots, however this is a rediculous practice that I am sure most of you have seen before on other products and found annoying. I nearly would deduct a star on the MUI product for this, but I will let that go. Stop it MUI, you have some nice products but use your heads!

Love the board, hate the packaging!
I absolutely love this cutting board. It works well with most knives (don't use the serrated knives with tiny teeth). The board is very forgiving with repeated cutting. They are very heavy and very attractive. The only complaint I have is the paper packaging stuck to the board. I've bought 3 of these and I couldn't get all of the "glue" off any of the boards. I eventually just put the oil on the boards to protect them and that somehow helped get most of the sticky residue off. MIU France really needs to use something that will not permanently stick to the boards. I'd give it a 5 star if the sticky residue and paper came off easily.