Snow Peak Chopping Board Set

Snow Peak is a Japanese company makes some sweet high end outdoor stuff.  Most people would know them primarily for their titanium mugs and cookware, but they also make many cooking utensils, tents, even chairs and outdoor furniture.  I haven’t seen many of their products here in Canada but they do look well designed, although pricey.

I have a ‘camping kitchen kit’ I keep in a storage box.  It has all of the kitchen stuff I need for car camping: cast iron griddle, and grill, tongs, coffee French press, water carrier, flipper, salt, pepper, collapsible  dish bin,aluminum foil,  fire steel, etc, etc.  It’s all together so I just grab that and throw it in my car - it’s the only way to make car camping much more simple than running around my house gathering items separately to take with me camping, and usually if you do that you will forget something that you wanted to bring.  Anyways, some things that have been missing from my kit was a good knife and a cutting board.  Anyone that has had to prepare a good meal with a swiss army knife or leatherman will instantly agree that it kind of sucks and is a make do thing in the backcountry, really.  A  good kitchen knife is much better. Also finding something to cut things on is difficult and you may end up using the picnic  table as a cutting board. 

         The Snow Peak Chopping Board Set solves my the knife and the chopping board issue at the same time.  The board is made of natural unfinished wood with stainless steel piano hinge and latch and rubber feet so it doesn’t slide around.   the knife is good forged stainless steel with a plastic handle riveted to it.  The board folds up to become the sheath for the knife, and has a magnet to retain the knife from rattling around.  The knife is the shape of a mini chef knife with a curved cutting surface, flat back surface you can hold the back of for quick and easy chopping.  It comes in two sizes – medium and large.  The medium having a 5.875” blade knife and a 10.1” long board, and the large has a  6.625” blade,  14“ long board .  I got the medium because MEC has recently been carrying the medium size, although I probably would prefer the large for car camping, I don’t think I would be bringing either on a backpacking trip.  On top of that, they are very affordable, the medium is $30 and the large is $40. The wood is unfinished.  I've oiled mine with mineral oil, which I use on my butcher board cutting board at home, while Snow Peak recommends olive oil.  

The cutting board after being oiled with mineral oil.

 The oil will help keep it from warping and stop it from absorbing onion and garlic juice among other things you chop.  I’m very excited to be using this and think it will become a great addition to my car camping kitchen kit.
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Snow Peak Chopping Board Set Medium
Snow Peak Chopping Board Set Large
MEC Chopping Board Set