Anonymous wrote:Wood is fine. Wash it, dry it out, relax.
Honestly, do you people think making these kinds of choices will prevent you from dying? They won't. They'll just prolong the agony.
Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone! Appreciate the insights. I just purchased another poly board for now.
Anonymous wrote:I'm in the market for a new one and saw the "Taima" pop up on my search. Anyone with experience with titanium cutting boards? It's quite pricey at over $175 for the large, but if it'll last a lifetime as they say without leaching bad stuff in our food or harboring bacteria and stains that would be worth it for me.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regarding dulling my knives, they claim that the titanium is softer than steel, which I'm surprised to hear.
Steel was invented because most pure metals were too weak for structural and industrial applications. Strength and hardness are related but not the same. Hardness is how well a material resists plastic deformation. Strength is how well a material can withstand a force. Rubber, spider silk, and gold are materials that are strong but not hard.
To further complicate, strength has different aspects. Tensile, compressive, shear, ductile, yield, ultimate. For example, our cortical bones in our long bones are strong in tension - they don’t bend easily, and our spongy bone in our vertebrae are strong in compression.
Titanium is softer than the steel used for knives but it is way harder than wood or plastic. If knives get dull on a wooden board, imagine what will happen on titanium.
Anonymous wrote:Regarding dulling my knives, they claim that the titanium is softer than steel, which I'm surprised to hear.
Anonymous wrote:OP, is this the one you saw?
https://a.co/d/cqSa1Em
Read the description. Your “titanium” cutting board is made from stainless steel. At least it’s food grade. 304 stainless is softer than the steel used for knives, but try running your knives along your stainless steel mixing bowls to get a preview of what your kitchen will sound like with this cutting board.