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What size cutting board do you recommend as “optimum”?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Char Nolan - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on April 23, 2024

Join Chef Char Nolan in her virtual office as she welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Nolan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Melissa Bryant

What size cutting board do you recommend as “optimum”?

Answer

So if you can see where my finger is right now, this is a plexiglass cutting board that I have over the counter, and it is 18 by 36 and it's gigantic. And I keep it here because I want protection for my countertops, but it also works really well. Uh, it's not my favorite. I really do enjoy something of this size, and I'm going to say that this is probably 14 by 10 or 12, and that fits well. The other thing is that, uh, I'm on the road a lot, uh, teaching cooking classes, and I have to think in very pragmatic ways of how I'm going to transport things. So this fits very well into my little wagon, uh, and or my little suitcase that I travel with. So, um, if you're making dinner for, you know, two, four or six people, this should be absolutely fine for you. Something too big. Uh, I often hear from older adults who will buy a beautiful big, gigantic cutting board and it becomes too much of a monstrosity to lift and clean. So there are some other variables to also think about. So if you see a sale on a cutting board and it's not, uh, you know, exorbitantly expensive, you might want to, uh, pick it up and see if you like it. Uh, because sometimes you like to cut, uh, different things on different cutting boards.

Char Nolan

Chef Instructor

Char Nolan is a serious crusader for plant-based education, armed with a degree in public health from Philadelphia’s Temple University. She teaches nutrition and plant-based cooking throughout Philadelphia, and in many underserved communities. Char holds a certificate in plant-based nutrition from eCornell and completed Rouxbe’s Plant-Based Professional Certification course in 2015. In 2019, Char completed post-graduate course work in social media marketing at the University of the Arts. When she is not cooking or teaching, she manages social media accounts for several plant-based influencers. Char prides herself on learning everything she knows about cooking from growing up in her grandparents’ Italian restaurant. Her favorite vegetables are Brussels sprouts and kale, of course. Char originally hails from Queens, NY, but has lived in Philadelphia most of her adult life. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer.