Best Wood for Chopped Salad Bowls

Traditional Hardwoods are perfect for wood chopped salad bowls. You won't see stained wooden bowls ever on our web site, store or retailers shelves.

The best wood for wooden bowls used for chopped salad is Cherry, Black Walnut and Maple. From time to time inexperienced wooden bowl turners will use beech (plain Jane semi hardwood) Tarted up with light or dark stain looks fine out of the box but after several chopped salad our Caesar salads you will be asking yourself what did I do wrong. You messed up in the beginning with the wrong wood bowl.

Staining wooden bowls makes them a bit more interesting. If you’re looking for a working kitchen wooden bowl never choose stained. Stained wooden bowls, NOT RECOMMENDED as MOST stains are not food safe. The act of chopping will send the stain into your food and the chopping mars the stain. Complaints are frequent.

Please do not substitute a bamboo bowl for hardwood if you’re looking for the best wooden chopped salad bowl. Glue is used in all bamboo cutting boards and wooden bowls. The glue is not food safe. In fact bamboo is in the grass family not a tree species. It grows fast is easily replaced and is green. The truth is the grass is harvested pounded into a pulp and glued to gather making bamboo cutting boards and bamboo bowls and unhealthy choice. The act of chopping on Bamboo sends the glue into your food.