About Us

Burnt Bee make and supply high quality, handmade end grain Butchers Block chopping boards, classic and designer chopping boards, paddle boards, and serving platters, all produced at our Yorkshire studios. We serve both retail customers and professional trade customers, including butchers, restaurants, hotels and the catering industry.

Our craftsmen and women are all time served experts in their field, who pride themselves on delivering excellence for our customers. All our products are made with hand tools using traditional methods, so you can be assured that there are no mechanical processes or production lines, and that your Burnt Bee product has been lovingly made especially for you.

Most other manufacturers chopping boards are manufactured by a process of gluing pre-cut planks of oak together, and then cutting them out in a series. However, our chopping boards, paddle boards, and serving platters are all made from a single, solid piece of prime grade European white oak, meaning that you get the finest quality wood possible, and that over time your board will not begin to split on the glue lines, as can so often happen.

Once we have cut and planed your block or board to size, we put all our products through a series of sanding and oiling by hand, finishing with a 600 grit sanding, which makes the surface of your block or board feel like glass.

It takes approximately 3 weeks to handmake an end grain Butchers Block chopping board and approximately 10 days to handmake a classic or designer chopping board, paddle board or serving platter.

With such care, attention and love put into every block and board that we make, you can be assured that your Burnt Bee product is of the highest quality and, if properly cared for, will literally last a lifetime.

Thank you and we hope that you enjoy many years of pleasure from your Burnt Bee product.

The Burnt Bee Team