Enso Hinoki Cutting Board, 20 x 14"

This is a beautiful cutting board, and the perfect size! Love the subtle scent, and it cleans up well.

Probably a little expensive for what it is but I do notice the edge on my knives lasts longer using this cutting board. Because it is a softer wood, knives cut into it easier than a harder wood but that's the tradeoff in this case for keeping your knives sharper longer. The juice catcher around the edge is a bit hard to reach into to clean but otherwise have been enjoying it greatly.

These hinoki boards smell amazing! They really add some good wood smell to your kitchen. The functionality is very good too, so light that you don’t think twice about hauling it to the sink to clean and it’s softer so you can go full boat when using your higher end HRC knives. The deep juice groove is both amazingly useful and slightly annoying. When it’s capturing juices during slicing it feels like it can hold way more than any cutting board. When little flakes of things fall off into the groove it’s a pain to get out because it’s so narrow. But I would rather have the groove than not have it. The real only downside to these is that it stains more than you think it would and the knife marks you make in it stay. It hasn’t affected performance so I won’t dock it a star but it does take away from the aesthetics. Just be sure to have some sand paper on hand to keep this baby flat and chunk free

Quality control could be better. Wood grain not even. Thought I would return but decided to keep it; it’s going to get used hard.