Shopping the on-line auction.....Boos cutting board edition
We have a local on-line auction, the items all get taken to a local "warehouse", you can go there and look at an item before you buy it. You have 3 days to return things if they don't work, and you have to pick up anything you buy within 5 days, they do not ship. They sell everything from tractors to toys, and I don't buy a lot of things from them but I keep my eyes open for quality kitchen items, farm tools, garden supplies. I did not expect to see this, though. A 24x18 Boos cutting board, 1.5 inches thick and in pretty good shape, nothing a little sandpaper and oil won't fix. I checked the prices on Amazon, just shy of $100 for a new one. I bid pretty low, $15 because I didn't NEED it, and then forgot all about it. Then I got the email saying I needed to pick up my items and I remembered the board. Apparently no one else knows about sandpaper, so here's my newest purchase:
A little work and it's going to be good as new, so I'm happy, but it's big and it's heavy and I'm not quite sure where I'm going to put it. I have a butcher block counter top there, so don't really need a cutting board, and that's my "baking station", so it'll have to move somewhere else because Christmas cookie season is nearly here.
It's too big for a serving piece, but I'm thinking it might be just the thing to use out by the smoker, it won't break, the cold/hot won't hurt it, if something hot leaves a mark it can be sanded out. Plus Elery could slice meat right on it instead of using my baking sheets, so that is probably a double bonus.
Still, I was surprised at the size and weight of it. Does anyone else have and actually use a board this size?
Annie
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Comments (60)I guess everywhere is different. Here there is no city garbage pick up, although Ashley has it in a town 15 miles away. She pays for garbage pick up just like she pays for city water, she does not have a choice of services. They also have recycling, she has special bins for that and yard waste goes by the curb on a special day, it's included in her monthly garbage/recycling bill. Things like branches and leaves get ground up and then residents can get the resulting mulch at no cost to them. Here I have to hire my own garbage pick-up, I have my choice of 3 or 4 companies that do that. Recycling is free, but I have to take it to the recycling trailers and sort it myself. Not a problem, there are trailers clearly labelled and the bins include plastic grocery bags, milk bottles (no lids), newspaper, office paper and magazines, glass (again, remove lids) clear plastic, colored plastic, cardboard, styrofoam, metal. All items must be clean, no food residue. If the item can be washed, it can be recycled, if it can't be washed (like cardboard boxes) and contains food residue, it can't be recycled. Some plastic bags were accepted for a while, now none of them are other than the plastic grocery bags. No place for yard waste, we can still burn leaves and branches curbside, which I hate, nice days in the fall you about get smoked out of your house by all the neighbors burning leaves. Compost is something I do myself. As I said, most kitchen scraps become chicken food, the few things that I can't take there get added to my "compost pile" at the farm and is then spread on the garden the following year. The compost pile consists mostly of the contents of the calf pens and chicken coop which I let compost for a year before using. Annie...See MoreCutting boards - $$$ vs $$
Comments (34)Seems the price is often a factor of the wood and construction method. End grain and smaller peices mean more labor and more $$$. Exotic wood cost more $$$. Most is based on looks. You want to make sure what ever you get was constructed with straight lumber, glued with the right type of glue with good coverage, and clamped and allowed to dry adequately. However most of that you can't tell by looking at the product. My Ikea butcher block counter had one seam that didn't get adequate glue. Looked fine upon inspection, but after cutting part off, we discovered a section in the middle wasn't glued and started to open up. The Boos counter top has developed a crack in one of the boards on the underside (this is not a seam problem. I should take it off and glue and clamp before it gets worse. That one has only mineral oil applies. The end grain cutting boards I used as a temporarily island top ended up wanting to cup after time, and one opened up along one seam line. Those cost $36 a piece, and they were small. I have a nice cutting board that is face grain, and I've had it for years and years and a few of the joints are opening up at the edges, but overall I think it's given me the best value. I know I didn't pay much for it as I was poor at the time. The one I liked the best was the pine one my DH made for temporay use for the round island. That held up very well, but he cut the boards and made sure they were well glued and clamped. I would think that getting one that was made for you where a person hand selected the wood for grain/trueness and then made sure there was good glue in all joints would be your best bet. Have no idea what that would cost, but anything that goes through an automated process is subject to more problems. I once ordered something where the sample was clear and looked really good. When I got the items, one had a big knot in a very conspicuous location. Supplier said they never claimed to hand select the lumber and knots could be expected. It was coincidental the sample they chose to display was one with no knots at all....See MoreFor anyone with pullout cutting boards...dilemma!
Comments (16)Thanks all! This is next to a fridge panel, so sizing won't be noticeable at all. I wouldn't want to remake the whole cabinet, though---partly because we REALLY want to be done, and partly because it would require changing the sizes of the lower drawers and drawer fronts and reordering all of that; that cost would be on us, since he's proposed a reasonable solution (and is also giving us a great price on these to begin with). And we're trying to get this thing done on a budget, so not something I would spend money to change! We did have shop drawings of all of the cabinets, but the cutting board wasn't one of the things the program knows how to draw so it was just noted on the side rather than drawn out in its entirety---hence the confusion. The boards are cherry and the ends are finished to match the butcher block that will eventually be on this cabinet. No seating nearby and this is along a pathway, so probably won't get too much eye time. This counter run is next to our fridge, so it's a combination baking-fridge landing zone. There will be upper cabinets above it. We're planning for one drawer to be a "junk" drawer and the other to have small baking tools (candy thermometers, measuring spoons, etc.) in it. This is actually modeled after a baking cabinet in our old kitchen that was too big to reuse. @fori, not sure if ours is the eclectic half new half old kitchen you're thinking of, but that is roughly the look we're going for, so if it ends up there that's good news! ;) Right now our biggest threat is turning into an Easter pastel zone since our gray cabinets are several shades too light now that they're up against everything else....d'oh! Our old cutting boards were the same breadboard inserts, so not too worried about that---I actually found them very sturdy (maybe more so than the modern hardware for them!) That's also what we asked him to do (no hardware like Theresse was talking about), so that's completely fine. I could ask about taking the space from the middle drawer and trying to move that rail down, but I have a feeling that's a much bigger undertaking---the rails are attached to the frame in some sort of involved way (I know nothing about cabinetry so I can't say how and maybe it's not as complicated as it looks, but I expected screws and nails like our old cabinets, and it looks more involved than that). And the guy in the picture probably is nervous, since this was right after three other cabinets all got packed up to go back to the shop to have dimensions adjusted (happily those were all clearly their errors so those were easier!) I should also add, lest it seem like our cabinetmaker is not paying attention at all, that we are extremely pleased with the overall quality of the cabinetry---the problems have all been measurement snafus. I was really nervous about using him because his price was half of what our other quotes were, but after yesterday I am feeling 100% confident in the workmanship, and he is cheerfully making all the requested changes, so on balance I'd definitely still use him again. Just these details to sort out....ack! :)...See Moreoldbat2b - I made my sample board - can you photo shop this please?
Comments (65)We had a false start Saturday, but 3/4 done right now and super happy! So glad ABB is almost a memory. I will post a shot without grout when they leave and another in a few days with the grout. Going with mapai white still and will use the keracaulk as advised. Thank you again. Anyone who is considering this tile - we have no regrets. It would go well with greens, grays, whites, blacks, and tans. It wouldn't interfere with a busy countertop (IMHO) and has enough variation to give some interest to our essentially solid black counter and white cabinets. A small number of tiles have imperfections, but they are the ones being cut for ends and corners, so not really wasted much....See More- 6 years ago
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6 years agoA guy advertising on Kijiji made mine a few years ago for $30. It's 18x24x2" thick.
It resides permanently on the counter but to be honest I baby it. I don't cut anything smelly on it (garlic, onions or meat). Mostly bread and greens :-)
That's why the other 2 are handy, them and the plastic one get used for messy jobs.
6 years agoAnnie, I love your board! Many years ago (early 70's) I bought a solid maple butcher block prep table I just HAD to have. It was crazy since I was very young, still living at home and had zero use for it. LOL, it sat in my bedroom until I moved out. It's been with me all these years until we moved into our current home. I just couldn't find the right spot for it, and it's a little hard to store! I didn't part with it completely....our son has it for now. I know exactly how big it is...24" square and 34" tall and crazy heavy! The top has rounded edges and a juice groove. This online photo is somewhat similar to mine, though it doesn't have the juice grooves on top. I know they can get expensive to buy. I paid $100 for mine when it was new.
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