Charcuterie and cheese boards

Personalized Large Cheese Board

For a housewarming or a wedding. A large engraved serving board at the low end of the personalized price range.

Large format is what makes a cheap engraved board feel generous: size reads as value before anyone looks closely at the wood. Engraved to order for weddings, anniversaries and housewarmings. If you need the gift to be substantial and the budget is fixed, buy size.

Extra-Large Black Walnut Edge Grain Board, 40 in, with Handles

For a long table and a real party. Forty inches of black walnut with built-in handles and rubber feet.

This is a table-runner-sized serving board, and there is essentially no mass-market equivalent because the material cost at this length is prohibitive. Built-in handles and feet mean it can be carried loaded and set down without scratching. It is a statement purchase and it should be treated as one.

Maple Leaf Sectional Serving Platter

For keeping the olives out of the cheese. A shaped, sectioned wooden platter that keeps the olives out of the cheese.

Flat boards look good in photographs and behave badly with anything wet. Sections solve the real problem: a divided platter keeps the marinated things away from the crackers for the length of an evening. Shaped as a leaf, which is either the appeal or the objection depending on the recipient.

Personalized Bamboo Charcuterie Set with Knives

For someone starting from nothing. A bamboo board with a knife set and an engraving, and bamboo is the compromise.

We are listing this as factory-made and pressed bamboo rather than solid hardwood, because that is what it is. What it does well is arrive complete: board, knives, engraving, no assembly of a gift required. As a serving set for a housewarming it does the job. As a working board it will not last like the hardwood options above.

Mexican Handmade Wooden Cheese Board with Resin Finish

For a board that is also an object. A handmade wooden board finished with resin, which is why it looks like that.

Resin-filled wood is a genuine craft technique rather than a shortcut: the maker fills voids and cracks with colored resin so the flaw becomes the feature. It is a serving surface and not a chopping one. Buy it for a host who sets a table deliberately.

Highlight Series Large Board with Handle, Walnut, Maple and Padauk

by Independent maker

For carrying it to the table full. Large, handled, and padauk gives it an orange-red stripe you cannot get from stain.

Padauk is bright orange when freshly cut and mellows to a deep red-brown, so this board changes character over its first year in the same way cherry does. Large format with a handle is the entertaining configuration: it carries a full cheese course. It is a lot of board, so check they have somewhere to put it.