Butcher’s Block Food Preparation Boards

The Butcher block has long been around, since the beginning of use for those original butcher blocks. The Monarch Block is only one of a variety of those types of butcher blocks that are used by commercial meat cutters now going on 100 years. It’s become very popular for people to place into their kitchens.

The natural beauty appeals to many non commercial settingowners and they will buy them, either as home Islands, work surfaces of separate cutting boards. These boards are far more hygienic than the wooden blocks that were used in the past, which tended to split and allow bacteria to seep into the wood. Theses heavily laminated and attached with glue butchers block are far more hygienic as the surface can be sanded down as many times as needed.

Big, solid and long lived, these butcher block chopping boards are usually made with the smaller non commercial setting in mind and it is unlikely that a full size commercial block would be used in the non commercial setting as they are not as aesthetically pleasing.

Butchers blocks are designed to be used for many, many years and the end grain structured blocks are favored by both professional butchers and gourmet chefs because they are less wearing on the knife edges. When a cut is made, the blade can slip between grains and will last longer between sharpening.

The dovetail and double dovetail joint combined with pressurized glue application produces a solid, heavy finished product that will last many years, and certainly longer than a single piece of wood. The joints are almost impermeable to bacteria although exposure to hot water such as in a dishwasher should be avoided.

Sometimes these boards are available used, either in flea markets or on websites such as ebay because they are so long lived. the commercial ones tend to be less pleasing to the eye, but are extremely practical.

These butcher block tables will make any residential look fabulous. Get a color of table that goes with the wood that is on your countertops. Or perhaps even your trim. Coming in many styles from flea to modern looking even. As you shop around for your own butcher block table don’t forget to compare prices.