arts entertainment Lifestyle To clean wooden cutting boards properly, you’ll need a good butcher block oil Food-grade mineral oil is tasteless, colorless and nontoxic.

In our larger tested review of the best wooden cutting boards, The Boardsmith Maple End-Grain Cutting Board earned the distinction of best upgrade pick. Here's why it’s worth the investment.

Acacia. Composite. Butcher block. Plastic. When it comes to cutting boards, the options seem endless. Does a home cook need a bevy of cutting boards? Will just one suffice? (Short answer: Food ...

Thinking of adding a natural touch to your kitchen that's functional and stylish? Here's everything you need to know about butcher block countertops.

Unlike standard wood finishes for furniture and cabinets, the wood in butcher block countertops, blocks and cutting boards is designed to come in direct contact with food. It is finished with oils ...

Butcher blocks and butcher-block counter tops These hefty cousins to cutting boards take a lot of abuse through the year and need special care to stay both sanitary and stylish.

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With butcher block countertops you can stop dragging out your cutting boards, but you'll have to regularly clean, disinfect, and seal the surface.

While it’s always handy having a few chopping boards to avoid cross-contamination between meat and veg, a butcher’s block is superior for a few reasons. It’s thicker, so is more noise-absorbent.

Today, if you have a butcher block countertop, table or cutting board in your house, chances are it came from Effingham, a town of 12,600 about an hour and a half east of St. Louis.