Enso Hinoki Cutting Board Set

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

Love the versatility of these cutting boards. Light and thin to take on the road for caterings. They stand upright to dry faster and better. And the smell, well if you thought pine has good smell I would say this is both stronger but lighter in fragrance. And the price for these softer cutting boards is incredibly good. The only downside I would say is that I wish they didn’t stain as much as they do but that’s really just aesthetics

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.

The board was large and flat with a juice groove, as expected, which can be difficult to find in hinoki cypress. However, the edges of the board and the edges of the juice groove were completely un-sanded and very sharp and splintery. For over $100, I expected much nicer quality for this board, and had I kept it, would have had to spend some time with a router and sand paper to make it useable. I ended up returning it for a nicer board that already had rounded edges.