Distinctions in construction, ease of maintenance, and price mean that end-grain and edge-grain cutting boards are best suited to different types of cooks.

What we didn’t love about the Boos Maple Reversible Cutting Board This sturdy end-grain cutting board costs about $30 less than the Boos board at the time of publishing, and it's arguably more ...

This edge-grain ... best cutting boards. (Shun recommends wetting the board before each use to facilitate this, which you may not always find desirable.) The board looked fairly beat up by the end ...

An Asian woman using a wooden cutting board in the kitchen witrh her son nearby doing homework - Kitreel/Shutterstock ...