Cutting board for bread

[Ceriano]

What type cutting board do you use for slicing bread? I don't want to damage my nicer boards and I feel plastic is too rough on the knives. I get about 4 to 6 months out of my mercers cutting on hard plastic boards.

 

[Luftmensch]

Bread knives can do a lot of damage... no point doing that to a nice board!

If it is a soft bread, I use one of my knives on my regular cutting board. It it is a crusty loaf, I use a cheap bread knife on a cheap plastic cutting board.

 

[chefwp]

What type cutting board do you use for slicing bread? I don't want to damage my nicer boards and I feel plastic is too rough on the knives. I get about 4 to 6 months out of my mercers cutting on hard plastic boards.

I use my old edge grain boards that I don't use for anything else, the one I use the most has a groove worn into it from the bread knife's work.

 

[ian]

I have a $30 dedicated wooden bread board for when I’m using a bread knife

 

[DitmasPork]

Cheap Martha Stewart bamboo board comes out for bread duty—ain’t ever using a bread knife on the Hasegawa.

 

[Corradobrit1]

One of these. Great for catching crumbs and no worries using a bread knife

 

[WiriWiri]

I‘ve got one of those epic-edge wood composite boards (with grooves like above) reserved for use on the rare time I use a bread knife.

Awful hard things - apparently they started as byproduct from a skateboard ramp manufacturer - that have the dubious benefit of being able to go in the dishwasher.

Thankfully that means the underside of that bread board gets used to batter Milanese and escalopes out - I’ve stupidly dinged a few too many indentations in more expensive end grain boards before.

 

[Pertti]

In Finland we are rocking these drawer bread cutting boards yes the whole thing can be drawn out for cleaning.

 

[tomsch]

I have a beat up rubber board that my son in law killed with my bread knife so now it's dedicated

 

[mgslee08]

I have a big, (relatively) cheap teak cutting board that I'm probably going to give away to a friend one of these days. I just use that when I have to cut something crusty... though for the sake of the next guy, I try to be a little careful at least. Otherwise for cutting bread, it's a $5 plastic board for me...