The John Boos CCB Series 20×15 Inch Maple Cutting Board is a 2.25-inch-thick end-grain butcher block — the construction style serious cooks and butchers reach for when blade edge-life matters most. End-grain wood absorbs the blade between the wood fibers rather than across them, dulling knives at roughly half the rate of edge-grain or face-grain boards while self-healing from cuts.
Use it as a serious home cook’s primary cutting board, a meat-prep block for hunters and home butchers, a workhorse prep surface for daily restaurant-grade kitchens, and any application where the difference between end-grain and edge-grain matters for blade life. The 21-pound 2.25-inch thickness handles cleavers and heavy chef’s knives without flexing or marking.
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.
