The John Boos R-Board 20×15 Inch Maple Cutting Board is a 1.5-inch-thick reversible edge-grain butcher block in the company’s most popular workhorse size, weighing 12 pounds and built from Northern hard maple. The board flips for two-sided use, doubling effective working life, and the deep finger grips on each end make a 12-pound board possible to lift and rinse without slipping.
Use it as a primary kitchen cutting board for vegetable prep, meat butchering and breakdown, bread cutting, the general everyday cutting work that wears out lighter boards within a few years, and as the centerpiece prep surface for a serious home cook. The 1.5-inch thickness handles cleavers and heavy chef’s knives without flexing, and the maple edge-grain construction self-heals from knife marks better than end-grain or face-grain alternatives.
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.
