Also, this is discouraging. That's way more work per board than I'm planning, and they're still <$200.
Incidentally, I wouldn't want to use that board. It's a plethora of unsafe wood choices. I see end grain oak, which is one of the most massively porous woods, even used by some fish tank hobbyists as airline bubblers, and there are videos (saw one on YouTube) of people blowing air through long dowels into glasses of water. This traps food. I've actually cut >1" ends off of boards that I can hold up to light and see through, somewhat like this. Red oak also has a stinging chemical in it that burns my eyes when I plane it.
You can see two central (ringed) sections of walnut in the board. Walnut has a chambered pith (hollow, sectioned (like bamboo) core), and those are the few little circular holes you see in the board, also little traps that will collect food, bacteria, and probably mold. I think I might see wenge in there, the splinters of which can turn flesh necrotic. Some people have very bad reactions to cocobolo, which is gorgeous. There are many exotic African woods that really shouldn't be considered food-safe, but I see them being used in many of the boards on the site.
You know... what I'd really like is hard data. In a woodworking forum wherin I asked about woods with my specifications that are known to woodworking as good for cutting boards, I got a lot of suggestion that just smacked of hearsay. I got a wenge splinter once and watched it carefully to make sure it didn't go necrotic. It didn't. One of the bits of hearsay was that oak has tannins in it that act as a microbial, so the pores may fill with gunk, but won't become bacterial. I don't necessarily believe that. I want to do experiments, or have someone else do them and show all their work.
Incidentally, I wouldn't want to use that board. It's a plethora of unsafe wood choices. I see end grain oak, which is one of the most massively porous woods, even used by some fish tank hobbyists as airline bubblers, and there are videos (saw one on YouTube) of people blowing air through long dowels into glasses of water. This traps food. I've actually cut >1" ends off of boards that I can hold up to light and see through, somewhat like this. Red oak also has a stinging chemical in it that burns my eyes when I plane it.
You can see two central (ringed) sections of walnut in the board. Walnut has a chambered pith (hollow, sectioned (like bamboo) core), and those are the few little circular holes you see in the board, also little traps that will collect food, bacteria, and probably mold. I think I might see wenge in there, the splinters of which can turn flesh necrotic. Some people have very bad reactions to cocobolo, which is gorgeous. There are many exotic African woods that really shouldn't be considered food-safe, but I see them being used in many of the boards on the site.
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