Chopping board recommendations

[RPA 6MM BR]

Needing recommendations on the best heavy duty chopping board material.
Recently purchased a 25mm thick PE500 board but after one use (chopping heads and legs off rabbits with heavy butchers cleaver it’s destroyed!
A friend has a 25mm thick composite board that’s done upwards of 20,000 rabbits and it’s perfect but we don’t know what it’s made of (it’s Black)
Wondering if anyone knew of the best material to try and get hold of

 

[Klenchblaize]

Probably what Butchers have used since the dawn of time.

K

 

[Freeforester]

Providing the rabbit is dead, you should manage to remove the aforementioned extremities with a game shears. Lowe make the perfect tool for the job. This would be my recommendation.

Was the chopping board you bought MDPE or HDPE? And do you recall the make or whether it was expensive, or some random Amazon buy?

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[jb1]

Needing recommendations on the best heavy duty chopping board material.
Recently purchased a 25mm thick PE500 board but after one use (chopping heads and legs off rabbits with heavy butchers cleaver it’s destroyed!
A friend has a 25mm thick composite board that’s done upwards of 20,000 rabbits and it’s perfect but we don’t know what it’s made of (it’s Black)
Wondering if anyone knew of the best material to try and get hold of

Plastic, nylon or whatever they call it are useless for chopping and even cutting has its problems with cuts and crevices creating brilliant areas for bacteria. In the late 80s we were being pushed towards these new types of surfaces in butchers shops, years later they "U" turned realising that wood had a natural anti bacterial property. Look out for some decent size pieces of beech or oak and use that, the price of butchers blocks now makes my eyes water, i bought an 18x18x7 Maple for home it was £200 years ago, over £700 today.

 

[VSS]

Needing recommendations on the best heavy duty chopping board material.
Recently purchased a 25mm thick PE500 board but after one use (chopping heads and legs off rabbits with heavy butchers cleaver it’s destroyed!
A friend has a 25mm thick composite board that’s done upwards of 20,000 rabbits and it’s perfect but we don’t know what it’s made of (it’s Black)
Wondering if anyone knew of the best material to try and get hold of

That type of board was designed as a cutting board, not a chopping board.
I bought one 2nd hand that had been similarly ruined by use of a cleaver, and was able to restore it to pristine condition using a power planer.

 

[jb1]

That type of board was designed as a cutting board, not a chopping board.
I bought one 2nd hand that had been similarly ruined by use of a cleaver, and was able to restore it to pristine condition using a power planer.

Even knifes will create cuts and crevices in them, there OK for spreading butter on your sandwiches, for household use there OK better on knife edges than the glass things.

 

[shakey jake]

big beech or oak log, save just for this job then use whatever board you want

 

[John Gryphon]

big beech or oak log, save just for this job then use whatever board you want

Yes exactly that sir,let's go back to JAK and the bunny`s. A hardwood round 30 inches high and much the same across. They stand up to axe blows splitting sambar heads among the other mundane tasks of chopping bunny`s.
Splitting kindling,chopping fowl heads you name it a proper block is the ducks nutz,forget those poxy plastic cutting boards and other lightweight things that may be ok for filleting sardines.

 

[Westley78]

Keep a look out for an off cut of solid wood worktop on Facebook marketplace, give it a couple of coats of mineral oil and job done….

 

[Freeforester]

Mineral oil?

Are you sure you wouldn’t be better for foodstuffs with a vegetable based oil?

 

[John Gryphon]

give it a couple of coats of mineral oil and job done…

Yeah,like turpentine....mmmm tasty!

 

[Heym SR20]

Old butchers blocks were made from multiple blocks of beech or oak with the end grain on the chopping surface. The whole pulled together with a metal. Cleanup the face with a scraper- either a rectangular piece of steel or an an older knife from time to time.

I have a couple of off cuts 1 inch thick oak kitchen work top that I use for all my cutting purposes.

 

[Westley78]

Mineral oil?

Are you sure you wouldn’t be better for foodstuffs with a vegetable based oil?

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[Freeforester]

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Every day a school day, thanks for posting. Id’ve personally rather used eg walnut oil or something else naturally based, but it seems to be good for the job, provided it isn’t ingested.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Funky "Kitchen Islands" in need of some rustic charm are the enemy of those looking for a reasonably priced butchers chopping block.

Cleaned up and no doubt slavered in pine wax, they sit forlornly opposite the AGA Rangemaster with a bowl of fruit held snugly within the once blood-hungry and chopper clawed hollow.

How do I know?

K

 

[Bo Diddley]

It would be an interesting project to make a butcher's block. I wonder if the steel bands would need to be heated like a wheelwright would do when adding the tyre.

 

[Apthorpe]

Every day a school day, thanks for posting. Id’ve personally rather used eg walnut oil or something else naturally based, but it seems to be good for the job, provided it isn’t ingested.

Vegetable oils often tend to go rancid, some are hardening oils whichbwill gum.up etc.
Personally I don't use any oil on boards. A quick scrob over with a soapy scrunbing brush rinse and dry. Scrape as needed.

 

[Freeforester]

Vegetable oils often tend to go rancid, some are hardening oils whichbwill gum.up etc.
Personally I don't use any oil on boards. A quick scrob over with a soapy scrunbing brush rinse and dry. Scrape as needed.

Nor do I, but the HDPE boards I use don’t require oiling, and yes, method to clean is as yourself, occasionally through the dishwasher in the larder thereafter. We do have some wooden end grain boards in the house, however these haven’t been oiled, nor the one piece bread board.

 

[Mr Tree]

Did Someone say Beech chopping boards?