Beet juice, turmeric, garlic, and raw meat all sit on top of the surface rather than working into it, because steel has no grain to open up and nothing for liquid to pass through.
Cleaning is a rinse and a wipe back to bare metal, with no oiling routine the way a wood board needs and no scrubbing at color trapped in scored plastic. Three sizes, from a small slicing surface up to a board big enough to break down a chicken.