Navy Blue Three-Piece Reversible Cutting Board Set

In the professional colour code, blue means raw fish. It is a useful board to own separately even if you ignore the rest of the system, because fish leaves a smell in a board more stubbornly than anything else does, and keeping it to one dedicated surface is easier than trying to wash it out of all of them.

Navy also happens to be a good working colour for the same reason black is: knife scarring does not show, and pale ingredients do. Filleting is fine knife work on a pale surface, and a dark board makes the edge of a fillet and the line of the pin bones visible in a way a white board simply cannot.

The set is three graduated sizes moulded from food-grade polypropylene, reversible, with a juice groove around each face and textured handle cut-outs. Polypropylene is the right material for fish specifically: it does not absorb, so the oils that make a wooden board smell permanently have nothing to soak into.

All three boards go on the dishwasher rack. That is the practical end of the argument — a board used for raw fish should be washed at machine temperature, and a wooden board cannot be, because water opens its grain and heat splits it. This one comes out clean and goes back in the drawer without a lingering smell.

The short version

• Navy is the professional code colour for raw fish
• Non-absorbent polypropylene does not hold fish oils or smell
• Dark surface hides knife marks and shows pale fillets clearly
• Three graduated sizes, reversible, juice groove on each face
• Textured handle cut-outs; dishwasher safe

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