And I’d love to have that board.

But then again, I sometimes iron bills.

@Anon OCD-sufferer Thanks for your reminder. @sdaris summed it up fine: It’s totally sufficient to call it a perfectionist’s cutting board, which it is.

It’s waaay too small at 9×12″. 12×18″ is my preferred size, easy enough to move, big enough to prep just about anything on.

Also, The really great thing about wooden boards is you can sand them down once they get completely knackered, and have a new board effectively for free.

Oh, and it doesn’t look like a proper end grain board, more like a pretty printed plank, not so good for knives, and will warp if you don’t look after it.

I don’t understand why people who don’t have OCD find the compulsions associated with it so amusing. Living with OCD is indescribably painful for both the sufferer and those who love him/her. People who don’t have OCD will casually say “Oh, I’m so OCD,” as they straighten the knives and forks on a table even as I’m working hard to not count to five in a particular pattern in order to demonstrate to myself that I really, really don’t want to stab them with that same knife. That’s the fun, fun, fun of OCD: an endless round of compulsions as a response to intrusive thoughts that you’re not going to act out on. I wish people would come up with another code-word for their own desire for precision. My illness just isn’t funny to me.

My secondary objection is that, by naming the board after obsessive-compulsive disorder, sufferers who are currently enjoying a measure of success in overcoming the symptoms and resultant anxiety, and are in this way beginning to claw themselves back towards normal life, will be put off using this chopping board on account of trigger fears.

And yes, lots of OCD sufferers could use this chopping board without being triggered if it wasn’t named after their illness, because – and this may shock people who get their medical education from television – a lot of sufferers have no neatness-related symptoms at all.

Sorry for the rant. Just a bit disappointed, I guess.

That said, my diagnosed-and-living-with-OCD husband saw this and excitedly shouted “I want this!”

As someone who prepares martinis by precisely carving olives using a Smith chart, I find this cutting board to be an abomination in the eyes of god.

http://www.perpetualkid.com/sushi-service-for-two.aspx

So I’m not sure I’d want to buy from that store.

I’ve complained to restaurants that cut the veggies in to little pea-sized chunks. Unless they’re going into a soup.

Also: a lot of people enjoy creating dishes requiring fine chopping, slicing and dicing but don’t want to use a food processor like a Cuisinart or go though the agony of cleaning it.

http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/cutting_board.htm