Elm Chopping Board

[18 stoner]

Sycamore/Maple is commonly used as butchers blocks too.

[Steve Bullman]

i have a sycamore butchers block

[High Scale]

I gave the Mrs a cheese board made of Olive wood, kin lovely it is.

[##ray##]

cheers for that note to myself " must get a note book and write down tree types and their uses - furniture firewood etc ":001_smile:

[Hodge]

Elm burr looks awesome, apparently elm has no taste either, i also read some old butchers blocks were elm.

[Steve Bullman]

Elm burr looks awesome, apparently elm has no taste either, i also read some old butchers blocks were elm.

 

i doubt anyone would put so much sought after wood into a butchers block these days

[tommer9]

Sycamore- used as it is naturally sterile. and the grain closes up after being hit with such things as a butchers meat cleaver. Was/ is used for wooden utensils, chopping boards, the worksurface of the dairy (befor melamine etc) i have even supplied it to a bakery as a dough table, who argued-and won- with Food Hygiene bods, due to its above mentioned properties, that it was superior to nylon etc etc.

Elm I have not heard of as a chopping board wood, but I canot see too many problems. It was traditionally the framework holding the sycamore blocks together in the butchers block, as it is very evry tough timber. In time, after many washes, i suspect it would start to deteriorate a bit, as with many coarse grained timbers. It is also alot less stable than sycamore (which will wriggle about whilst drying, then often return to flatish boards!!).

Not sure that taste is a concern TBH- most woods are fairly lacking in taste once dry- esp. hardwoods.

Not had decent access to arbtalk for a while- Ill pm you back now Hodge!