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Ewart's Wooden Chopping Board Set
Ewart's Wooden Chopping Board Set
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Ewart's Wooden Chopping Board Set
Raw chicken, your salad and your cheese should never share a board
Three solid hardwood boards, each with its job burned right into the edge. Nothing from the raw meat ends up in your salad, the fruit and the cheese stop tasting of onion, and no plastic gets into your food. Made by Ewart Dodd, 69, from Weardale trees that were already down.
What one board is doing to your food
Raw chicken juice runs into every knife mark. You wash the board, and most of it comes out. Most is not all.
Meat & Fish gets its own board, just as the Food Standards Agency advises. Nothing raw ever touches the salad board.
Garlic and onion soak into the surface. Slice strawberries on the same spot the next morning, and they taste of last night’s tea.
The Fruits & Vegetables board has two sides. When the words on the edge read right-side up, you’re on the fruit side. Flip it and the words stand on their head: that’s the side for onions and garlic. Your strawberries never touch an onion. And cheese & bread get a board of their own that never sees onion, garlic or fish.
A 2023 study from North Dakota State University estimated a plastic board can shed up to 79 million microplastic particles a year into what you cut.
Solid hardwood: brown oak and ash, finished with food-safe mineral oil. Nothing plastic under your knife. Wood gives up wood.
Three boards, three jobs, burned in
Brown oak · fruit up, onions flipped
Brown oak, striped · raw meat & fish only
Ash · the pale one, serves too
Not one tree felled for a board
Ewart spent 41 years in the forests of the North Pennines and still turns out with his chainsaw after every big storm, as he has since 1990. When Storm Arwen came through five Novembers ago, whole hillsides went down in a night, and most of it went through the chipper or onto a bonfire. Now he keeps the good trunks. The two dark boards are brown oak, the deep-coloured heart of old oaks that often only shows once the tree is down. The pale one is ash, from roadside trees already being felled because of ash dieback.
Every plank dries for months under the byre roof before Ewart cuts, scrapes and oils it by hand. The rules came from his wife Elspeth, the school cook at the village primary school for 28 years. He burned them in.
“I’ve never felled a tree for a board. The wind does that. I just couldn’t stand watching good oak go through a chipper.”Ewart Dodd · Weardale, County Durham
Chicken ONLY on MEAT & FISH. Fruit side up, onions on the flip side. The pale one is for cheese & bread.
No exceptions, Ewart — that means you.
— ElspethChop on them, serve on them, use them every day. If the set isn’t right, for any reason or none, send it back within 90 days for a full refund. No restocking fee, no questions asked.
| In the set | 4 pieces: 3 chopping boards + 1 stand |
| Board size | Each board: 33 × 25 × 2 cm (13 × 10 in). Big enough for a whole chicken or a full loaf. |
| Set size | In its stand: about 33 × 25 × 9.8 cm. Takes up less worktop than a row of cookery books. |
| Material | Solid hardwood. Fruits & Vegetables and Meat & Fish: brown oak · Cheese & Bread: ash · Stand: hardwood, box-jointed. No plastic, no laminate, no veneer. |
| Labels | Burned into the edge like a book spine: Fruits & Vegetables · Meat & Fish · Cheese & Bread |
| Finish | Food-safe mineral oil, no stain, no varnish. Arrives oiled and ready to use. |
| Care | Hand wash with warm soapy water, dry upright in the stand. No dishwasher, no soaking. Rub in a little oil once a month and the boards stay smooth for years. |
| Wood source | Brown oak from storm-fallen trees in Weardale, ash from trees already felled because of ash dieback. No tree is felled for a board. |
| Shipping | Free UK delivery with tracking, dispatched within 1–2 working days |
From Storm to Kitchen
From Storm to Kitchen
A note from Ewart’s byre:
Ewart Dodd spent 41 years in the forests of the North Pennines and still turns out with his chainsaw after every big storm, as he has since 1990. After Storm Arwen tore through Weardale, he started bringing the best trunks home instead of watching them go through the chipper. His wife Elspeth was the cook at the village primary school for 28 years, and in her kitchen every chopping board had one job. When she retired in 2022, she wanted the same rule at home, in wood, not coloured plastic.
Ewart built it for her in the old stone byre behind their cottage in Stanhope: three boards, one job each, the job burned into the edge like the title on a book. The two dark boards are brown oak, the pale one is ash. No tree is ever felled for a board.
His granddaughter Freya packs and posts every set.
Free Delivery
Free Delivery
Free delivery across the UK
- Dispatched within 1–2 working days
- Insured: every parcel is fully insured, with tracking
- 4 pieces: 3 chopping boards + 1 box-jointed stand, each board 33 × 25 × 2 cm
- Arrives oiled and packed in its stand, ready to use
- Care: hand wash, dry upright in the stand, oil once a month. No dishwasher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Got a question? Here’s how to reach us.
Got a question? Here’s how to reach us.
Freya personally replies to every single email – as fast as she possibly can. Whether you have a question about your order or just want to say hello to Ewart, we’re here.
You can reach us:
- Mon – Fri: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (GMT)
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (GMT)
Email: info@countycraftco.com
Can I return it if it’s not for me?
Can I return it if it’s not for me?
Of course. We stand behind everything in our shop 100%. If the set doesn’t win you over, just send us an email within 90 days and we’ll make it right – no hassle, no headaches.