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Catskill Craftsmen Wood Pastry Board with Baking Graphics This handy board allows you to do regular mundane prep on one side and on the other side it has helpful measurements for rolling out pastry or pizza dough.
Customer Review: Nice pastry board, but not a cutting board
As advertised, this is a pastry board: it is *not* a cutting board. It has no grooves, and is not end-cut (so will tend to warp if it gets a lot of liquid on it over time). It is quite large, and the markings are very useful, with one exception: they tried to include both English and Metric units, but arranged them wrong! The English units are *only* lengthwise along the board, and the Metric are *only* width-wise — that doesn’t make any sense: if you were using one set of units (and who isn’t!!) you want to use the same units for both dimensions. I don’t roll out 12 inch by 30 centimeter crusts! Also, it has no feet, so you will want to place a wet towel under it while you are rolling things out to keep it from slipping.

Pros:
1) Large, sturdy board
2) Useful markings for rolling pie crust
3) Overall high quality and good for what it is advertised for

Cons:
1) Not useful as a cutting board (but they don’t advertise it as such)
2) Inclusion of two unit systems is not useful as laid out on the board
3) No feet, so need a non-skid pad when working

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