Are you using your glass worktop saver as a chopping board?

Dear Art of Living,

 

This to let you know that I really do read your e-mails.  I have a marvellous chopping board made of toughened glass and would not change it for anything.

 

Margaret Heath

Comments

[Andrew Bluett-Duncan]

Hello Margaret,

Thank you very much for your email , it’s always good the hear that our emails get read and inwardly digested! I have got something to say however that you may find controversial?

Glass worktop savers, as we call them in the trade, and that you refer to as a chopping board, are very good for all sorts of jobs such as a pastry board, used as a trivet for hot stuff from the oven or hob and any other job where you want to protect your kitchen work surface as they are incredibly tough and forgiving.

However one thing they are not designed for is as a chopping board. Now the reason for this is simply because they are very hard and as you cut on them they blunt your knives very quickly, immediately in fact. So whilst this may sound just like a sales pitch, if you’d take my advice I think you should invest in one of our lovely all singing all dancing Top Gourmet chopping boards which like any wooden board are kind to knives. And if you do this one thing I can guarantee is that once your knives are resharpened they will stay sharp much much longer leaving your lovely worktop saver for all the other jobs that they were really designed for!

If I’ve failed to convince you on this point perhaps I could interest you in a really good knife sharpener instead…I think you need one or the other and possibly both!

Well having just reread this email it still sounds a bit like a hard sell which was not really my intention. So may I soften it by reminding you of our guarantee which says that if having tried out (my suggestion) and you are not really happy with the result, then we’ll take it or them back and refund you without question.

Thanks again for your kind comments and if I may I’ll put your email along with my reply up on our blog because there are lots of people out there who are doing exactly as you do, and not understanding the consequences.

Kind regards
Andrew Duncan