We received these cutting boards as a wedding gift, and we love them--they're thin and flexible and easy to wash and dry. However, we discovered one of their limitations on Friday night.
B and I were both stuck in terrible (but typical) Friday-night traffic on the way home from work. I got home first and got started on a pizza. We love making home-made pizza--it's just as good as pizza from a restaurant, thanks to our pizza stone, but is a fraction of the price. We buy dough from the grocery store and toss on whatever tomato sauce and cheese is in the house, along with toppings if we have them (red peppers are always a favorite).
As I was rolling out the dough, I could tell it was going to be a good pizza. I stretched the dough extra thin and poured on lots of vodka sauce. The cheese was a combination of monterey jack and white cheddar. The red pepper was thinly sliced to perfection and artfully arranged.
I made the pizza on parchment paper over a cutting board, so I could open the oven and easily slide the pizza and paper onto the pizza stone. Removing the pizza from the oven is a similar process--grab an edge of the parchment paper and slide your crisp perfection onto a cutting board.
And that's where the process broke down. Our fabulous flexible cutting boards, while so efficient and handy for vegetables, were not made for supporting anything, least of all an enormous pizza. I saw the pizza slide out of the oven onto the cutting board that B was holding by the edge and immediately thought, "Something bad is about to happen." Sure enough--the pizza almost made it to the counter before sliding off the (did I mention it's slippery?) cutting board and making an unfortunate *splat* noise as it hit the floor. On the list of items to be grateful for this year--it landed crust-side down.
The moral of the story--know the limitations of your cooking equipment. And laugh when you hit them. At least this kitchen disaster didn't leave us with shattered glass all over our kitchen. :)
