Here in the Tomato kitchen we like to think we live the rustic life. Sure we have our vegetable patch at the community garden, the herbs and a couple of thousand worms doing their worm-like job out back. It also means we like the idea of thick blocks of wood on which to chop our veggies and carve our meat, rather than the common or garden designer variety. But big rustic boards are heavy and, in our case, stained.Then comes along that clever Dane John Brauer with his fiendishly designed Quatro Wood, Cutting Board.Not only is the board knife friendly (more on our blunt knives another time) but it is durable and reversible to separate meat from vegetables.Apparently it has an ergonomic cutting angle, can be lifted with a single hand, drains and is controlled in pouring if you want to save all those juices from the Sunday roast.Its dimensions are 28 x 320 x 325 mm.In Australia its available from design store RG Madden for A$80.00. Outside the licky lucky country just google “John Brauer design” and you’ll find this and the ES, a similar concept made from high-density polyethylene, for sale.One for the next birthday perhaps.
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