Epicurean cutting boards are a popular choice among home cooks. But are they right for you? We take a deep dive into the features, composition, and pros and cons of this cutting board.
Epicurean Cutting Boards at a Glance
Here's Epicurean's cutting board lineup. They also make some other products, such as utensils, trivets, serving boards, and more, but here we look just at the cutting boards (in alphabetical order). See the Epicurean site for the full lineup of their products.
Most Epicurean cutting boards are customizable, which we talk more about below.
All Epicurean cutting boards are:
Epicurean Cutting Board Series | Features |
|---|---|
 | -5 sizes (10x7, 11x9, 14x11, 17x13, 19x14") -0.25" thick -3 colors (natural, slate, nutmeg) -Lightweight -Non-slip feet on both sides -Juice groove on one side -Customizable -About $25-$50. |
-2 sizes (23x14, 29x17") -0.5" thick -Natural color w/slate juice groove (one side) -Not customizable -About $125/$180. | |
 | -3 sizes, different design in each size (9x6, 13x9, 19x13") -0.25" thick -Black with gold etching -Not customizable -About $35-$55. |
-3 sizes (14x11, 17x13, 27x17") -0.375" thick -3 colors (natural, slate, nutmeg) -Customizable -About $60-$145. | |
-Rectangular and round, in two sizes each -0.25" thick -3 colors (natural, slate, nutmeg, or with contrasting handle color) -Not customizable -About $24-$44. | |
-Original and most popular line -4 sizes (8x6, 11x9, 14x11, 17x13") -0.188" thick -3 colors (natural, slate, nutmeg) -Customizable -About $16-$46. |
About Epicurean
From the Epicurean website:
In 1997 three entrepreneurs founded TrueRide, Inc., which specialized in creating custom-made municipal skate parks. Over ten years the TrueRide crew designed, built, installed, and serviced more than 450 skate parks, providing vital community spaces across the USA and abroad. The skate ramps surfaces were made using a paper composite material also used for decades in commercial kitchens.
One year the trio of owner/entrepreneurs made cutting boards as holiday gifts from the waste and cut-off generated from the fabrication and building of the skateboard parks…and Epicurean was born in 2003.
Epicurean is a USA-manufacturer using primarily USA-sourced materials. Its iconic paper composite material is manufactured 100% in the USA, using materials locally sourced in the USA. While all Epicurean products are thoughtfully designed, manufactured, and packaged in Superior, Wisconsin at a 60,000 square-foot facility, a small amount of silicone components and nylon utensil heads are sourced from China.
At every stage in the production process, Epicurean minimizes, repurposes, and recycles waste whenever possible.
In making its products, Epicurean “nests” products onto a raw material sheet, much like cutting cookies out of cookie dough, for the best material yield and least possible waste.
Epicurean recycles or reuses every component it receives with its raw material. The protective plastic is recycled. All metal banding is clipped and recycled. The pallets the material ships are reused on by being sent back to the supplier to use again.
Epicurean’s heat reclamation system captures warmth and uses it to heat its warehouse over the winter.
All of Epicurean’s off-cut material waste is burned as biomass. Every week Epicurean sends approximately 6,000 lbs. of material to a local facility.
Epicurean’s material is:
FCS (Forest Stewardship Council) Certified
GreenGuard Certified.</