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I chose the picture that shows the fewest mistakes π
It's made from maple with a red oak cutting board from these plans
I didn't find out red oak isn't good for cutting boards until after it was made, so I'll have to remake it some day. The good news is that it will only be used for cutting bread, so I think any bacterial growth will be pretty minimal
It's my understanding that Oak not being good for cutting boards is in reference to end-grain cutting boards. Oak is very porous and soaks up too many juices (not a problem for bread), but it only really soaks stuff up from the end grain.
For an edge grain board like yours, Oak is a fine choice!
The only benefits of end grain are that it's self healing after being sliced with a knife, and it's a bit more forgiving and won't dull the knife as much. Bamboo, which is very hard, can dull a knife for example.
For a bread knife, these don't matter very much, so edge grain is 100% acceptable, and 1000x easier.
slaps hood this baby holds a whole loaf, no problem
Ooh this is sweet, makes me wish I had a bread box! No room in this tiny kitchen and with how many loaves we have going at any one time we have a bread cupboard instead haha, but it's just not the same!
What we used to use for scale before bananas were en vogue.
Is this an example of shrinkflation?
Did you run out of bananas?
I canβt tell the size from the image. Would it fit inside a bread box?
Only if the bread box was significantly larger.
i think this is awesome! very efficient design and very well executed. hell yeah.
Thanks!
Nah man, that's a wood box.
Looks nice as fuck tho.
Haha I was gonna make this dumb joke but you beat me to it.
The dumb flows through us all...
Looks great. I think you picked better hardware than what's in the plan's picture.
And I appreciate the photo having a breadbox for scale.
I laughed too hard at this, thank you.
I should have included a banana
That's really nice! Thanks for sharing! I didn't know i needed a bread box!
I didn't know either until I looked at how messy the house is and decided on a distraction instead π