Aqua Three-Piece Reversible Cutting Board Set

Aqua is the light board in the range, and light boards have a genuine use that dark ones do not. Almost everything difficult to see on a black surface is dark: mushrooms, aubergine, black olives, beef, chocolate, the bruised part of a fruit you are trying to cut around. On a pale board all of it is legible.

The trade-off is honest and worth stating: knife scarring shows more on a light board than a dark one. It is cosmetic rather than hygienic, since polypropylene does not absorb into the scoring the way wood does, but if a board that looks worn will bother you, the black or navy sets hide it entirely.

The boards are the standard build — three graduated sizes in food-grade polypropylene, both faces usable, a juice groove around each face, and textured handle cut-outs that hold the board still when it is wet. The reversibility is what lets you keep one face for raw and one for ready-to-eat without doubling the number of boards in the drawer.

A bright colour is also easy to keep track of in a colour-coded kitchen. If you already run a red board for meat and a navy one for fish, aqua reads clearly as the third category, and the aqua set is the same three boards at the same price as the others in the range.

The short version

• Light surface makes dark ingredients easy to see and cut precisely
• Reads clearly as a third colour in a coded set of boards
• Three sizes, six usable faces, a groove running round each one
• Food-grade polypropylene: non-absorbent and knife-friendly
• Textured handle cut-outs; all three are dishwasher safe

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