Find the perfect cutting board to cater to your culinary needs
Even the most casual of home cooks need a decent cutting board in their kitchen. The options are bewildering, though. There are hygienic acrylic versions, classic wooden chopping boards, color-coded versions for different food types and even ones made from metal. We've got a selection of 15 for you to consider, each of which has a unique selling point that could earn it space on your kitchen countertop...
Compartmentalize
HHXRISE Organic Bamboo Cutting Board with 3 Compartments
Staff Pick
We love this attractive take on the wooden cutting board that gives you three carved out compartments to separate your chopped food until you need to use it. There are also built-in juice grooves on both sides to stop counter spills.
Filing system
Joseph Joseph Index Plastic Cutting Board Set with Storage Case
This tidy set comprises of four chopping boards, each with index-style labels for meat, fish, vegetables, or cooked food. The boards have a lipped edge and non-slip feet and are safe to go through the dishwasher.
Clearly useful
Acrylic Kitchen Cutting Board with Lip
If you love your kitchen countertops and don't want to cover them with a board, this incredibly neutral clear acrylic option will go with any decor. It measures a generous 24 inches by 18 inches and boasts rubber feet and a lip to keep it in place.
Five star
Kylermade 5-in-1 Multi-Layer Cutting Board
Perfect for anyone concerned with hygiene, this has a patented five-layered construction that means you can peel off a layer at a time as it becomes worn. Claiming up to five years of use, it's made from BPA-free, FDA-approved, antimicrobial material.
Earn your stripes
Motley Large American Walnut Wood Cutting Board
Super-stylish
Crafted from sustainably-sourced American black walnut with cherry and oak accents, this is undeniably attractive. The reversible design offers one completely flat side and one with a built-in well groove, perfect for use as a cheese or hors d'oeuvre board.
Get an extension
Over the Sink Cutting Board with Collapsible Colander
This clever option has an extendable arm so it will expand to fit most size kitchen sinks. It also has a removable, collapsible silicone colander with stainless steel rim, meaning you can rinse and chop from one area.
Metalicer
Stainless Steel Fruit Cutting Board
Stainless steel
Measuring in at a super-slim 1.6mm, this metallic board is made from 304 food-grade stainless steel. The smooth surface can be easily cleaned and sanitized for belt-and-braces protection again germs.
Top drawer
Sheldon & Duff Bamboo Cutting Board with Drawers
You can use this bamboo board to chop your prep, then slide it into the open drawer for handy storage until you're ready to use it, swapping the drawers around as they get full. The drawers are dishwasher-safe.
Groove-y
Bellemain Extra Thick Acacia Wood Cutting/Serving Board
This chunky butcher block style board is made from sustainably-sourced Acacia. The deep juice groove help keeps your kitchen worktop clean while the recessed handles are useful to use it to serve.
OCD-friendly
Fred & Friends The Obsessive Chef Bamboo Cutting Board
This amusing option is decorated with guidelines for different grid sizes and angles ensure your cuts are precise. It gives obsessive cooks guides for medium dice, small dice, brunoise, fine brunoise, batonnet, allumette, julienne, and fine julienne.
Prime-mate
Set of 3 Gorilla Grip Original Reversible Cutting Board
These no-nonsense, non-porous boards are a great starter set for all-round cutting tasks. Made of heavy-duty plastic with rubber edges, they are available in a fantastic range of over 20 colorways to match your kitchen decor.
Marbellous
Home Basics Marble Cutting Board Slab
Perfect for pastry
This traditional marble slab is perfect to offer a cool surface for making pastry or dough. It can also double as a worktop-protecting trivet and looks good enough to use as a serving board.
Not pointless
J.K. Adams Maple Wood Carving Board with Spikes
Ideal for joints
This specialist product is handcrafted and finished in Vermont. It's designed primarily for use as a roast carving board, with metal spikes to hold your meat in place and deep grooves to catch the juices.
She's got legs
Prosumer's Choice Bamboo Stovetop Cutting Board with Legs
Another attractive choice, this has adjustable legs so as well as a traditional cutting board, can be used over gas or electric stovetops to maximize your usable space in the kitchen.
Iconic
Seville Classics Bamboo Cutting Board and 7 Color-Coded Cutting Mats
This set is made up of a main cutting board crafted from bamboo, with seven color-coded flexible mats that feature food category icons to avoid cross-contamination that are stored inside.
All aboard
Whether you need a specialist cutting board like the J.K. Adams option that's designed to hold joints of meat depends on how often you'd use such a product. Likewise, the marble slab is probably only useful to anyone who does a lot of baking.
More general options for all-round use are what most home cooks will find the most sensible choice, although we would advise getting the most attractive option you can find to take you from prepping in the kitchen to serving straight to the table.
Our favorite product on the list is the HHXRISE bamboo cutting board with three grooved compartments. It ticks the all-round use box, looks good enough to use when you have company, and those three compartments have many uses when both chopping and eating.
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