/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11930749
Because he's popular. That's the unwritten rule of 4chan: popular is always bad. Doesn't matter the subject.
Of course, you're supposed to make up other reasons and not say the actual one out loud, but you're entirely free in that department. Get creative, anon!

Found some info on the why end-grain is better:

>End grain boards are easier on the knife edges and will last much longer. When cutting, the edge goes between the wood fibers and those fibers aren’t severed. Long grain cutting boards, while they are much easier to make and much less expensive, will have their wood fibers severed as an edge cuts across. They will require resurfacing more often to rid the cutting surface of splinters.

http://www.theboardsmith.com/boardsmith-faqs/

Also, teak dull knives apparently..