Best Cutting board wood

[Deleted member 174758]

J&K, What's Oak like for a board?

Terrible, at least for a working board. Oak is high in tannin and acetic acid, so it can taint meats, citrus fruits and more delicately flavoured cheeses. It isn't fine grained and can splinter with repeated use of knives, but the open grain structure means it will also harbour bacteria, etc all too easily

 

[Mr Chibs]

Terrible, at least for a working board. Oak is high in tannin and acetic acid, so it can taint meats, citrus fruits and more delicately flavoured cheeses. It isn't fine grained and can splinter with repeated use of knives, but the open grain structure means it will also harbour bacteria, etc all too easily

Other than that though... I presume it's perfect.