Easygoing gadget: The OCD Chopping Board

Are you a little fussy about how your veggies are chopped? Do you have ambitions to be on Masterchef? We have just the thing for you - the OCD Chopping Board.

For most of us, chopping up some veggies for a stir-fry or a stew is just a hassle, a necessary bit of work before you get down to the real business of actually making something to eat.

But there are a special breed of people out there (and we think OCD is a little too pejorative by the way) who like things just so.

You know the type and you may be one yourself. Their DVDs will be alphabetised, their desks will be arranged in such a fashion that all the pieces of paper meet at 90 degree angles and all the bananas in their fruit bowl are pointing towards Mullingar. You know, normal stuff.

They take pride, some would say a little too much pride, in uniformity and precision. It is good these people exist in society as we need people like this to build aeroplanes, do brain surgery and regulate banks (that last bit was a joke by the way).

So for those people, just chopping up veggies before throwing them in the wok with a bit of Ken Hom’s Sweet and Sour sauce is not an option. And now, thanks to the wonderful people at thisiswhyimbroke.com, they can put away the measuring tape and have their dinner prepared before 10pm every night.

Ladies and gentlemen here’s the chopping board that solves that problem. For just under $20, the world’s most precise chopping board is yours. It has any number of ingrained measurements so that you can ensure that all your batons of carrot are exactly, and we mean exactly, the same length.

It also has guidelines on the board so you can dice, slice, chop and cube every vegetable known to man in precisely the same shape every time. It even has some diagonal lines if you want to get really fancy.

And that is another use for this powerful piece of wood. The advent of Come Dine With Me and especially Masterchef has made the job of cooking for others in your own home a cross between doing your driving test and appearing on The X Factor.

Nowadays everyone is a critic and God forbid if your asparagus spears are not all the same length or your carefully prepared starter may as well have been a bucket of chicken from Frank’s Fried Chicken Palace down the road.

Every kitchen has to have a chopping board so you may as well have the king of the counter on yours. We wonder how we have survived without this beauty for so long.