Come again? You want a cutting board made out of titanium? Do you not like your knives?

What do you have against wood boards? They are sanitary as long as you clean them.

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Mathguy64 said:

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Come again? You want a cutting board made out of titanium? Do you not like your knives?

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Hardened alloy blades have a hardness that exceeds the hardness of titanium... assuming the board is pure titanium. Catbon steel blades would be an issue, however. I do think hardened alloy blades would mark the titanium board and don't know what the health issues are there.

I prefer wood.

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Yes. Things like 52100 (or other hardened alloys and tool steels) would be harder than pure titanium but not necessarily titanium alloys. It just makes no sense to me. I'm not doing it that's for sure.

I've got a 35 year old Boos block and I can't imagine using anything else. End grain rock maple is just about bullet proof to anything.

Mathguy64 said:

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austinag1997 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Come again? You want a cutting board made out of titanium? Do you not like your knives?

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Hardened alloy blades have a hardness that exceeds the hardness of titanium... assuming the board is pure titanium. Catbon steel blades would be an issue, however. I do think hardened alloy blades would mark the titanium board and don't know what the health issues are there.

I prefer wood.

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Yes. Things like 52100 (or other hardened alloys and tool steels) would be harder than pure titanium but not necessarily titanium alloys. It just makes no sense to me. I'm not doing it that's for sure.

I've got a 35 year old Boos block and I can't imagine using anything else. End grain rock maple is just about bullet proof to anything.

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The Boos products are nice. Probably need to invest in one.

Got this one from agrams a few months ago. Can't fathom why you'd want titanium.

austinag1997 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Come again? You want a cutting board made out of titanium? Do you not like your knives?

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Hardened alloy blades have a hardness that exceeds the hardness of titanium...

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While that is true, simply having a softer material does not mean that the wear is only on the softer material. The wear is more of a function of the difference in hardness between the two materials. The greater the difference the more the softer material wears as opposed to the harder material. But they both do still wear.

I agree with you on preferring wood, though I like plastic for raw meat. I just feel better sticking it in the dishwasher.

A titanium cutting board sounds like the CIA operation to get titanium out of the Soviet Union for the SR-71 during the cold war. Paid off a guy to make titanium shovels, which were then imported and melted down for the aircraft. It took years before someone asked, "Wait, why on earth would someone want a shovel made from titanium?"