Another bonus: at least for bamboo, it has antimicrobial properties compared to plastic, which tends to have all sorts of difficult-to-clean grooves for bacteria to hide in.
There are types of wood that have antibacterial properties which make them more rot resistant.
New Zealand has Totara trees which are truly beautiful. Over 100 year old Totara fence posts are still on various farms and some research group was buying them and extracting something out of it as a trial acne treatment.
Plenty of other woods have rot resistant properties too. Puriri comes to mind, it used to be a common house pile, but wow is it horrible to cut.
Important to note that bamboo boards will dull your knives significantly faster than other woods.
Other kinds of wood are still better than plastics at being bacteria-resistant (but still need disinfecting after cutting meat etc.—and so does bamboo)
lostlogin|1 year ago
New Zealand has Totara trees which are truly beautiful. Over 100 year old Totara fence posts are still on various farms and some research group was buying them and extracting something out of it as a trial acne treatment.
Plenty of other woods have rot resistant properties too. Puriri comes to mind, it used to be a common house pile, but wow is it horrible to cut.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podocarpus_totara https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitex_lucens
Luc|1 year ago
Ekaros|1 year ago
Or then just give up and live with my plastic cutting boards...
pinusc|1 year ago