The World's Greatest Cheese Grater?

The World's Greatest Cheese Grater?

Finding the world's greatest cheese grater has become kind of a Holy Grail quest for The Wife and me. We've been through dozens: pyramidial, flat, crank-operated, etc.

All, in time, broke.

So for one of the many gifts I lavished upon The Wife this holiday season, I included a Cuisipro Accutec flat grater.

Why do I like this model? Photo-etched double-beveled surgical steel blades. This boy is very VERY sharp. It slides through cheedar, neatly rices Parmesan, seems up to every cheese challenge. Heck, if you're a fan of home-based medical procedures, you could probably buff down a bone spur with one of these.

Now, I am certain that Evil Ronnie, Chef Cantu and other members of the LTH Pro community have commercial models that are much better, but for me, the home user, at $25 or so a pop, this seems like the one (until it breaks).

Hammond

David Hammond wrote:Now, I am certain that Evil Ronnie, Chef Cantu and other members of the LTH Pro community have commercial models that are much better, but for me, the home user, at $25 or so a pop, this seems like the one (until it breaks).

Hammond

Me, I love my microplane graters. They're extremely (sometimes dangerously) sharp and I've never met any resistance grating anything through them.

I've got the snap-in blade set, where you have one rubber-handled holder and replacable blades (each about 2x5"). The 37000 series. Amazon says they either don't stock or have discontinued the line, but you may be able to find them elsewhere. The base system (handle plus two blades) is $20, and each other blade is about $8.

They also have a number of other form factors and such, including a rotary grater and an itsy bitsy nutmeg grater.

-ed

gleam wrote:Me, I love my microplane graters. They're extremely (sometimes dangerously) sharp and I've never met any resistance grating anything through them.

I second the vote for microplanes - love 'em - nothing beats the feathery parm you can get from them. My SO just got one with a matching zest catcher from the woodworking company that chaims to have discovered their kitchen uses. Check it out here.

I've got the snap-in blade set, where you have one rubber-handled holder and replacable blades (each about 2x5"). The 37000 series. Amazon says they either don't stock or have discontinued the line, but you may be able to find them elsewhere. The base system (handle plus two blades) is $20, and each other blade is about $8.
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I received this (via Amazon) for Christmas, so they must just be out of stock. I've only tried it once so far and id didn't knock my socks off but I'm willing to give it a fair shot, since all I've ever heard about these things is rave reviews.