doing chicken and pork katsu and grilled viet pork has now required i do lots of banging
normally i just use the flat end of my knife, in this case it would be a chinese veg knife and cross hatch it.
so i just decided to get a mallet, i wanted a long ish one and all metal, no idea why but the best one was from ukraine, i hope it's not radioactive, so far my lips haven't been tingy
anyway along with this, the banging on a bamboo cutting board makes an unpleasant sound, so i might as well upgrade the board, i went "mid range"
even tho i'm finally in a home, i don't have much countertop area, so i got second biggest size i'd want (my current one is 16x12), i'll get an end grain 24x18 monster when i have more countertop space.
i'm talking about countertop space, b/c i leave the cutting board out on the counter, it's never put away.
i have no idea why thata is called a juice canal, i would use sword terms and call it a blood groove, anyway i did particularly want that (for meats and whatever, i'd still mainly be using the flat side), and i wanted a hardwood and teak seemed about the most "trouble free" since the wood has natural oils, and i guess this brand is like the all clad of teak cutting boards.
anyone tell me whats the hole for?