Jackie Chan can turn any living space into a dojo and weapons room.

But you're right, I should watch a Jackie Chan movie, it's been years.

I do have a nicer board .... a big thick one I use most often.

I use several boards for different things ... one specifically for meat ... one for just garlic and onions ... another for fruits ... and a general one for everything else.

It's the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they're cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don't understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.

I've also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.

They're melee weapons .... lol

I've heard of that and I've seen that but I never do that.

I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.

Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We'd cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It's just faster that way.

I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.

A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.