Acacia boards in their stand and acacia utensils in a crock on a light stone counter

Good kitchen tools, the way they used to be made.

Solid acacia boards and teak utensils, oiled by hand. Nothing to leach into your family's food.

  • No plastic
  • Solid hardwood
  • Oiled by hand
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  • No plastic
  • Gentle on knives
  • Won't scratch your pans
  • Won't melt
  • Easy to clean
  • Oiled by hand
  • Made to be handed down
  • No plastic
  • Gentle on knives
  • Won't scratch your pans
  • Won't melt
  • Easy to clean
  • Oiled by hand
  • Made to be handed down
  • No plastic
  • Gentle on knives
  • Won't scratch your pans
  • Won't melt
  • Easy to clean
  • Oiled by hand
  • Made to be handed down

Our first tools

Cutting boards in three sizes in solid acacia and a seven-piece utensil set in Java teak. More wood, steel and glass on the way.

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what's really on your family's plate?

Your family eats plastic it never chose.

It comes off the board you chop on and the spatula you stir with.

  • 79 million plastic particles a year can come off one plastic cutting boardEnviron. Sci. Technol. 2023
  • 4.5x higher risk of heart attack or stroke when plastic builds up in the arteriesNEJM 2024

Take plastic out of the tools that touch every meal.

Shop plastic-free tools

Studies show a link, not yet proof of harm.

A mother cooking with a black plastic spatula next to a plastic cutting board while her child eats

make the switch

Your old utensils vs. solid teak

Melted plastic spatula, stained silicone spoon and cracked bamboo spoon

Your old utensils

Plastic, silicone, bamboo

  • Plastic melts and can leach into hot food
  • Silicone can leach compounds when hot
  • Bamboo is held together with glue
  • Lacquer cracks and flakes off
Three acacia wood utensils: spoon, spatula and slotted turner

Indonesian Teak Utensil Set

Carved from solid wood

  • Solid teak, carved in one piece
  • Plant oil and beeswax, no lacquer
  • No plastic, no glue
  • Won't scratch your pans
Make the switch

Sources: nylon utensils (BfR), silicone, bamboo in plastic (EU).

Everything you want in your kitchen.
Nothing you don't.

  • No plastic
  • Solid hardwood
  • Kind to knives
  • Safe on non-stick
  • Won't melt
  • No coatings
  • Plant oil finish
  • Oiled by hand
  • Easy to clean
  • Made to last
  • Free shipping over $95
  • 30 day money back
Oiling the board by hand

how we make it

Slow, simple and the way it has always been done.

No factory coatings, no plastic handles, no shortcuts. Just good wood, a bit of patience and a finish you can eat off.

  1. Cut from solid hardwoodA dense hardwood that is kind to your knives and your pans.

  2. Sanded and oiled by handEvery board and every spoon, rubbed with plant oil and beeswax.

  3. Left to cureSo the finish settles in before it reaches your kitchen.

Properware vs. plastic

Plastic kitchen tools are cheap and easy. Here is what you give up for that.

the honest choice Properware Plastic
No plastic touching your food Yes No
No microplastics cut into your food Yes No
Won't melt in a hot pan Yes No
Safe on non-stick pans Yes Yes
Can be sanded and re-oiled Yes No
Natural, renewable material Yes No
Dishwasher safe No Yes

Sources: microplastics from plastic boards, 2023 study; black plastic study, corrected in 2024. Wood needs a little more care: hand wash only.

What families say

  • Anna, Utrecht
    Example review★★★★★

    “Heavy, smooth and it smells lovely”

    We swapped our old plastic board for the medium one. It's heavy, it doesn't slide around and it smells lovely after you oil it.

    The plastic one is in the recycling now and I don't miss it.

  • Marco, Milan
    Example review★★★★★

    “No more melted spatulas”

    The spoons don't melt or scratch my pans, and they look good on the counter.

    I liked them so much I bought a second set for my mum.

Family breakfast with bread on an acacia board

made to be handed down

Our grandparents' kitchens had fewer things, and they lasted.

We started after looking at our own kitchen drawers: plastic spatulas with melted edges, a scratched chopping board, a juicer that broke in a year. So we went looking for tools made the old way, from honest materials.

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