Prime Aussies ad: "Fine. She Was Right About the Board."

When my wife told me she'd paid sixty dollars for a chopping board she found on Facebook, I told her she'd been done. That was three months ago. I'm now the one using it every single night, and the reason I was wrong is worth two minutes of your time before you buy another plastic board. I'm 64 and I do the washing up in our house. So I knew our boards better than anyone. The white plastic one smelled like onion no matter what I did to it. The grooves had gone grey and no scrubbing brought them back. Every year or so we'd bin it and buy another one, and the new one would go the same way within a month. I'd tried the lot. Bleach soaks. The dishwasher on the hottest cycle. Lemon and salt like the internet says. We even bought one of those "antibacterial" boards, which stained in a fortnight like all the others. My thinking was simple: a board is a board, and a smelly board just needs a harder scrub. That sounds sensible. It's also wrong, and here's why. Every plastic board gets fine knife grooves in its first week. Those grooves are too narrow for any sponge or brush to reach the bottom of, so juices from meat, onion and garlic sit in them and soak into the plastic. That's why the smell comes back a day after you scrub, and why the stains never lift. Titanium is far harder than a kitchen knife can cut into, so the surface doesn't carve up, and the board is one solid piece with no coating and no seams. Nothing gets in, so there's nothing to hold the smell. The board my wife bought is the Prime Aussies Titanium Chopping Board. She'd read about the groove problem and went looking for a board that couldn't groove. I gave her grief about the price the whole first week. Then I washed it. One wipe under the tap and it was done. No soaking, no smell the next morning, no rotating three boards mid-cook so the chicken board doesn't touch the salad. We've since thrown out four old boards, and honestly the best part is that I just don't think about it any more. My wife has stopped bringing up who was right. Almost. It's $59.99 on the official page (normally $200), and it comes with a free non-slip mat and a recipe e-book, with free shipping Australia-wide. There's a money-back guarantee behind it, so if it doesn't earn its spot on your bench, send it back. Read the details and see if it suits your kitchen.