Boos Blocks

Well, not too much going on these days, considering the one thing I'm "excited" about right now are my new cutting boards. I've been using crappy boards for a long time now and after great deliberation, I settled on two big 24x18 maple edge grains. I got them from John Boos & Co., which makes excellent boards and as a bonus (to me at least), both were made in Illinois, just a couple hours away. Actually, most of their stuff is made in Illinois, and all of it is made in the USA.


If I ever made my own board, I'd use the better-performing end grain - but I decided against it this time around since it would've been something like four times the weight and price. Considering I'll probably be dicing white onions and not white truffles on these things, I think it's a reasonable compromise.