New Mobile Kitchen Cutting Board Technology Announced

The culinary industry was in a flambé this week over the announcement of the latest development in kitchen cutting board technology, developed by the Eating Corporation of America: cutting boards on wheels.

Seattle, WA (prHWY.com) August 2, 2012 - The culinary industry was in a flambé this week over the announcement of the latest development in kitchen cutting board technology, developed by the Eating Corporation of America: cutting boards on wheels.

Sarina Richards, R&D specialist at Cleveland-based ECA, said that the new technology meets the demands of today's wizards of home cuisine, whether female or male. "As kitchens have grown in size and scope, home chefs have brought home ever larger slabs of meat, with the aim of designing their own cuts. As a consequence, cutting boards have also gotten ever larger, thicker, and more unwieldy."

This has made them difficult to transport around the working space, consulting master chef Martin Stuart agrees. "Even soccer moms who do their own fitness workouts have struggled to heft a standard two-inch thick, teakwood board, laden with a blade roast or whole brisket, down the counter from the prep area to the stovetop or oven."

Richards said she got the idea from the recessed wheels that started appearing on airline luggage 15 to 20 years ago. She attached a retractable handle to one end of the board, a discreet pair of wheels at the other, and voila, a mobile kitchen cutting board that rolls. After trying one of the test models, celebrity chef Wolfgang "Fryer" Tuck enthused: "This is a sturdy sucker. I could get on it myself and skate across the floor and across my restaurant back in LA."

Richards and the other culinary scientists at ECA also test-marketed the new kitchen cutting boards among housewives and home chefs in the Midwest. George Chetson, a self-described "barbecue king" who lives in Des Moines, said he appreciated the ability to move large hunks of sauce-drenched lamb and beef around the patio without having to get his hands covered with barbecue sauce.

ECA competitor Down the Hatch Appliances reported it has its own version of the ECA board already in production. The Minneapolis firm will sell boards with decorative bumpers and grilles that recall California roadsters and European sports cars. Ambitious home cooks may want to order the deluxe motorized model with hydraulically extending and retracting undercarriage, which responds to the touch of a button. (Batteries and remote are extra.)

The manufacturers have announced substantial marketing budgets to familiarize the American public with the innovation. ECA has retained Emerald Aghast as its spokesperson, while opera tenor and outsized gourmand Luke Poverty will appear in ads for Down the Hatch mobile cutting boards under the brand name "Chop and Roll." "Kitchen cutting boards have entered the twenty-first century," Stuart declared happily.

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