This $100 chopping block is both dazzling and useful
Allow us to make a compelling case for investing in a pro-grade Fredericks and Mae cutting board
There tend to be two types of people in this world: those who ensure their countertops remain as clear as a wide-open prairie view (the goal, perhaps, for their home to look perpetually staged, as though they might decide to throw them up for sale at any moment — though they rarely make a spontaneous decision); and those who live with countertops as busy as a rush-hour subway train (a pint of tomatoes cozying up to a stack of unpaid bills and a bread machine that hasn’t been used since the early oughts.)
But our world has been divided long enough — and a perfect cutting board might be the great unifying force.
Crafted out of the waste produced by making decidedly more boring solid-colour cutting boards, these Fredericks and Mae hefty, professionalgrade blocks ($100, comingsoonnewyork.com) are so dazzling that even the aesthetically retentive will feel good about leaving them out on the countertop and so useful that the busy, cluttered cooks will turn to them as a meal prep ally throughout the day.
They are so perfectly covetable, in fact, that you may have noticed them popping up in the social media feeds of your favourite food stars. Dan Pelosi (@grossypelosi, to those who have watched his rise to culinary fame during the pandemic) even referred to his as “the dreamiest.”
But if you wait too long to score one of these colourful cutting boards, then you might be left dreaming, since they’ve been selling faster than detached houses in midtown Toronto.