I Told My Husband His $60 Chopping Board Was A Waste Of Money. Here Are The 7 Reasons I Was Wrong, And Why Every Plastic Board We Owned Is Now In The Bin

By Jan Whitfield, 63, Ballarat VIC
Last updated July 20, 2026 · 6 min read

Me and "his" board. I told him it was a waste of money. I'm the one who won't put it down.

The box arrived on a Tuesday. I said what wives have said for centuries: "We already have three chopping boards."

Sixty dollars. For a flat piece of metal. Off a Facebook ad. I told him it was a waste of money, and I meant every word.

He didn't argue. He just picked up our old white plastic board, the one we'd chopped on for twenty years, and held it under the kitchen light.

I'd never looked at it. Really looked. The surface was carved up like a school desk. Hundreds of grey grooves, some stained orange from years of spag bol.

Then he read me one line off his phone: researchers found that chopping on a plastic board can release thousands of tiny plastic particles. Every cut. Even on boards that look new.

Ours hadn't looked new since 2008.

So I used his metal one. Once. To prove a point. That was six weeks ago. The plastic boards are in the bin, and I'm writing this so I can be wrong in public once and never speak of it again. Here are the 7 reasons the Prime Aussies Titanium Chopping Board stayed.

1. Because of what the old board was leaving in our food

Look at the photo. That's not our board. Ours was worse.

Every one of those lines is a cut. Every cut sheds tiny bits of plastic. And they don't stay in the board. They go where the food goes: into the salad, onto the roast, into the grandkids' sandwiches.

Titanium is one solid piece of metal. Nothing flakes. Nothing sheds. Metal doesn't come off on a knife, so there's nothing to end up in your dinner.

I didn't buy the board. This is why I kept it.

2. The garlic smell was gone the same day

Our plastic board held smells the way carpet holds cigarette smoke. Garlic. Onion. Fish. The dishwasher couldn't shift it. The board carried yesterday's dinner into today, and we'd stopped noticing.

Titanium is non-porous. Nothing soaks in, so there's nothing to smell. My test: I chopped a full bulb of garlic, rinsed the board for three seconds, and pressed it to my nose. Nothing. I made a pavlova on it an hour later.

That was the day I stopped arguing.

3. Cleaning it takes one wipe. Actually one.

Water runs straight off. No grooves, so there's nothing to scrub out.

Cleaning the old board meant a scrubbing brush and two minutes, and I still didn't trust it. The gunk lived down in the grooves where no brush reaches.

This board has no grooves. Rinse, one wipe, dry. Done before the kettle boils. It goes in the dishwasher too, bottom rack, but the wipe is faster.

At my age I've earned faster.

4. My good knives are still sharp

My second objection, after the price: surely metal ruins your knives?

Six weeks of daily chopping says no. The surface takes a blade without chipping or dulling it. My good knife still slices a tomato so thin you can read through it.

And think it through: a board that wrecks a $100 knife isn't a $60 board. That's my husband's maths. He does it out loud now. Often.

5. It's the last chopping board we will ever buy

Here's the sum that finished me off.

A plastic board lasts us a year or two before it's too grim to keep. Call it $20 a time, over twenty years. We've spent more replacing rubbish boards than this board costs, and every one of them ended up in landfill.

Titanium doesn't crack, warp, stain or hold a smell. You buy one. You're done. The "waste of money" was the cheap boards all along.

I've asked my husband to stop smiling.

6. The box had more in it than a board

Inside: the board, a free non-slip mat that stops it sliding on the bench, and a free e-cookbook with 30 Aussie dinners, sent by email.

They also cover the delivery with free shipping insurance, worth $9.99. If the parcel goes missing or turns up damaged, they sort it. You don't argue with a courier.

Three sizes: Medium for quick jobs, Large for every day, X-Large for the Sunday roast. Mix sizes if you buy two or three.

I'm not saying free gifts changed my mind. I'm saying the mat is on my bench and the recipes are on my fridge.

7. If I'd stayed stubborn, we'd have got every cent back

Half my book club has a story about a Facebook gadget that took six weeks to arrive and broke in a fortnight. So I went looking for the catch, ready to gloat.

There isn't one. Prime Aussies is Australian owned, real people answer the emails, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. Use the board for a month. If you don't love it, send it back and get every dollar back. No questions, no hoops.

I told my husband to send it back. Turns out we could have. We just didn't want to.

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