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I know I just complimented you, SIM, but that cutting board looks like it was found amongst of pile of dead bodies in Mexico City. Are you sure you aren't putting yourself in harm's way? Please don't take offense. I'm quite literal. It was my upbringing Taipei.

Happy Pho!
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Wood -- if you care about your knives.  Plastic is very tough on knives, dulls them quickly, often leads to chipped edges, and doesn't sanitize any better than wood. 

FWIW, bamboo isn't "wood."  Bamboo boards aren't quite as hard on your knives as plastic, but they're problematic. 

There are all sorts of contingencies for quality, size, thickness and so on, but to the extent you can make comparisons the hierarchy runs:  (1)    end-grain wood, long-grain wood,

If you don't care about your knives, it doesn't make much difference.  Buy by price, appearance, or whatever quality you deem most important. 

As to the boards you've photographed, it's a little hard to tell everything about condition from a picture; but it looks likely that you can completely renew your boards by sanding. 

BDL
 
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there free range ducks, roaming the neighorhood eating anything they find, im pretty sure i spotted them in the local white castle parking lot eating some discarded sliders. i ate one a month ago that tasted somewhat like a corndog and we havent had a county fair here since last april /img/vbsmilies/smilies/confused.gif
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I have 3 main ones:

Wood - for vegetables, including onions and garlic, bread, cheese etc. (cleans by hand)

Plastic - for raw meats/fish (goes in the dishwasher)

Another wooden one - for carving cooked meats, clean by hand.

Then I have an assortment of littles ones, both in wood and plastic that are pretty shapes for serving cheese or cutting up something small.
 
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