The John Boos CCB Series Square 15×15 Inch Maple Cutting Board is the heavyweight square block in the line, a 3-inch-thick end-grain butcher block weighing 19 pounds — the closest thing in a home-kitchen size to the commercial butcher blocks restaurants and meat counters use. End-grain construction absorbs blades between wood fibers rather than across them, dulling knives at roughly half the rate of edge-grain boards.
Use it as a serious home cook’s centerpiece prep block, a meat-cutting board for hunters and home butchers, a permanent counter fixture in a kitchen where the block doesn’t need to move much, a heritage piece that develops character over decades of use, and any application where the heavy 3-inch-thick end-grain construction earns its place. The 19-pound weight stays put under aggressive cutting without slipping.
John Boos has been hand-crafting butcher blocks in Effingham, Illinois since 1887 — the company that supplied butcher blocks to the original Chicago meat-packing district. Every Boos board is made from sustainably-sourced Northern hard maple and finished in food-safe Boos Block Cream.
