A good cheese grater???

M. FERRANTE said:

Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that someone can
suggest a good cheese grater that most would agree is worth having,
and hopefully not too expensive? I have been using the grated
store-bought cheese (Kraft), but now I intend to buy RP from our local
Italian Import Store in chunk form.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions/help.

Mark Ferrante
Click here eveyday to feed a rescued animal:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

At the risk of disturbing the purists here...
Oh well, getting flamed here is just part of the experience.
I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese. Works great. I do skin myself occasionally, but that
can happen with most of them. I survive.
Since reading in this forum that good Italian parmesan will keep almost
indefintely just sitting in my refrig, I bought a big block of it a few
months ago and just grate some when I need it. Works great!
If you're looking for something fancier (read expensive) there are lots
of 'em at any cooking supply place. Bet you could find ones for certain
cheeses, or other foods, or even days of the week if you look hard
enough! Titanium maybe even!
Hope you find what works best in your world.

Mi e' parso che M. FERRANTE abbia scritto:

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Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that
someone can suggest a good cheese grater that most would
agree is worth having, and hopefully not too expensive? I
have been using the grated store-bought cheese (Kraft),
but now I intend to buy RP from our local Italian Import
Store in chunk form.

Good idea, grated parmigiano reggiano is often from the lowest
quality PR.
This is the old style, hand-operated grater, traditionally used
here around for parmigiano and grana:
http://www.agferrari.com/index.php/item_details/item/2677.html
If you want an electric one, just search for the ones which have
holes / projections similar to those of that hand-operated one,
as the old "Ghiro" (dormouse) who I still use. It's got to be 20
years old, now 🙂
Here's a picture of it, just the second one:
http://www.yourdelight.com/cheese_grater.htm
The pictures don't let us see the shape of the grating holes. but
in the Ghiro model they should be fine.
--
Vilco
Think Pink , Drink Rose'

M. FERRANTE said:

Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that someone can
suggest a good cheese grater that most would agree is worth having,
and hopefully not too expensive? I have been using the grated
store-bought cheese (Kraft), but now I intend to buy RP from our local
Italian Import Store in chunk form.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions/help.

Mark Ferrante
Click here eveyday to feed a rescued animal:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

I have a flat "grater" that looks like a bread board with a handle. It has
large holes for shredding, a slot in the middle for doing slices and smaller
holes for grating. Not fancy, but it works just fine for me. You hold it
by the handle and tilt it over a bowl or your cutting board and run the
cheese across whatever section you want to achieve the results you want. I
think I got it at Target but it was years ago.

Jill

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Mi e' parso che M. FERRANTE abbia scritto:

Quoted message said:

Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that
someone can suggest a good cheese grater that most would
agree is worth having, and hopefully not too expensive? I
have been using the grated store-bought cheese (Kraft),
but now I intend to buy RP from our local Italian Import
Store in chunk form.

Good idea, grated parmigiano reggiano is often from the lowest quality PR.
This is the old style, hand-operated grater, traditionally used here
around for parmigiano and grana:
http://www.agferrari.com/index.php/item_details/item/2677.html

These are great, but they also shred sponges. So: Easy to clean using the
stiffest toothbrush you can find.

salgud said:

I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

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salgud said:

I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

Thanks, Serene, I'm going to look for these at Ikea, New Haven, CT. They
have a 99 cent breakfast there beginning at 9:30 and free coffee (good) from
9:30-10:00. The cinnamon rolls are good for $1, and the poached salmon and
potatoes are good for $5.99 for lunch. I love the eating area. The tubs of
ligonberry preserves are fabulous, and also I buy the musli ($3.79 -
overpriced, but good). I like especially the pickes and beets, but they are
no bargain at $2.29 for a smallish jar. I bought a limpa loaf of bread,
solid and very perfumy with anise. Their coffee sometimes is on special 3
bags for the price of 1; it is the same coffee they serve in the eating
area. And a good bargain on yogurt-ice cream $1.
It's fun to go to Ikea!
Dee

I couldn't do without my microplane grater ....
http://www.chefdepot.net/specialproducts2.htm

Dee Randall said:

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salgud said:

I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

Thanks, Serene, I'm going to look for these at Ikea, New Haven, CT. They
have a 99 cent breakfast there beginning at 9:30 and free coffee (good) from
9:30-10:00.

At my store (Emeryville, Bay Area, CA, US), the breakfast is $1.49
(eggs, bacon, swedish pancakes, hash browns, coffee).

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The cinnamon rolls are good for $1, and the poached salmon and
potatoes are good for $5.99 for lunch. I love the eating area. The tubs of
ligonberry preserves are fabulous, and also I buy the musli ($3.79 -
overpriced, but good). I like especially the pickes and beets, but they are
no bargain at $2.29 for a smallish jar. I bought a limpa loaf of bread,
solid and very perfumy with anise. Their coffee sometimes is on special 3
bags for the price of 1; it is the same coffee they serve in the eating
area. And a good bargain on yogurt-ice cream $1.
It's fun to go to Ikea!

It is. A few weeks ago, I bought all the stuff to make the Ikea
meatball meals. Silly, I know, but it was fun having them at home for
some reason. And they have good prices on things like caviar and
salmon.

serene, who also gets a 15% discount

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Quoted message said:

Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that someone can
suggest a good cheese grater that most would agree is worth having,
and hopefully not too expensive? I have been using the grated
store-bought cheese (Kraft), but now I intend to buy RP from our local
Italian Import Store in chunk form.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions/help.

Mark Ferrante
Click here eveyday to feed a rescued animal:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

I used to use the old box grater, but now I have one from Ikea and it comes
w/ a bowl and lid as well as 2 size graters.

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salgud <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
> including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

Thanks, Serene, I'm going to look for these at Ikea, New Haven, CT. They
have a 99 cent breakfast there beginning at 9:30 and free coffee (good)
from
9:30-10:00.

At my store (Emeryville, Bay Area, CA, US), the breakfast is $1.49
(eggs, bacon, swedish pancakes, hash browns, coffee).

It is. A few weeks ago, I bought all the stuff to make the Ikea
meatball meals. Silly, I know, but it was fun having them at home for
some reason. And they have good prices on things like caviar and
salmon.

serene, who also gets a 15% discount

Lucky you!!!

The $.99 breakfast in New Haven lacks the swedish pancakes, they are $1
extra. For the $1 extra, I take the cinnamon roll & share it, the pancakes
are a bit mooshy for me. I usually share a little of my salmon for the
meatballs on my spouse's plate. (Turf & surf - tee hee!) But I do like the
meatballs, but couldn't eat them often -- and the potatoes are always just
so! How do they do that, big or small, they are all just al dente! I'm
tempted too to buy the meatballs, but they would have to keep ice cold for
12 hours on the way home, and there are usually other cold things of choice
to bring instead. Perhaps someday.
Dee Dee

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salgud said:

I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

Yep, that's the one we have. My daughter in England has one too.

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It is. A few weeks ago, I bought all the stuff to make the Ikea
meatball meals.

Okay. What is this thing, Ikea meatball meals?

nancy (never occurred to me to eat at Ikea)

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salgud said:

I have a plain old hexagonal grater that I use for everything,
including cheese.

We have this one, and it works great, as well (and the container has a
lid for storing the leftover cheese: http://tinyurl.com/ad7o6 (the
longer URL is
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=12&
langId=-1&catalogId=10101&productId=51506 )

(I work for Ikea, but I didn't when I bought the grater. ;-)

serene

Yep, that's the one we have. My daughter in England has one too.

I hesitate to mention this one that I have because I can't find it online,
but it is a small, rectangular shaped grater perhaps 2"x3" with a cheap
black handle. At the top of the grater, there is something you can use it
for it slicing the hard cheese into slivers or curls instead of actually
grating it. This must be something cheap that I've picked up somewhere a
long time ago, but I remember someone telling me that I could use the top
part of it for slicing slivers of cheese. These little slivers you see on
pasta dishes, vs. hunks you knife off.
Anyone know what I mean?
Dee Dee

Nancy Young said:

"serene" <[email hidden]> wrote

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It is. A few weeks ago, I bought all the stuff to make the Ikea
meatball meals.

Okay. What is this thing, Ikea meatball meals?

nancy (never occurred to me to eat at Ikea)

Heck, eating is half the point of Ikea. :-) Ikea makes these
wonderfully trashy Swedish meatballs. They serve them with cream gravy,
boiled potatoes, and a dollop of lingonberry sauce. Pretty good stuff.

serene

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I couldn't do without my microplane grater ....
http://www.chefdepot.net/specialproducts2.htm

I have two of them and couldn't do without them! I have a drawer full of
graters and find nothing that will do the job at good as the microplane
grater for parmigiano reggiano. Believe they are also available at Amazon.

Chris in Pearland, TX

Seamus said:

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I couldn't do without my microplane grater ....
http://www.chefdepot.net/specialproducts2.htm

This is similar to what I have, only mine is one piece without the
interchangeable blades.

Debbie

Christine wrote on 18 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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I couldn't do without my microplane grater ....
http://www.chefdepot.net/specialproducts2.htm

I have two of them and couldn't do without them! I have a drawer
full of graters and find nothing that will do the job at good as
the microplane grater for parmigiano reggiano. Believe they are
also available at Amazon.

Chris in Pearland, TX

I used to use a box grater for slicing veggies , grating cheese,
zesting fruits ...that sort of thing. These days I use a V-Slicer for
the slicing and 2 micro-planes (1 coarse and 1 fine) for the cheeses
and zesting. And whatever can't be done on the micro-planes or the v
slicer goes into the food processor. AFAIC Micro-planes second only to
the wand blender as kitchen must have tools.

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It's a simple question of weight ratios!

A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Debbie said:

Seamus said:

Quoted message said:

I couldn't do without my microplane grater ....
http://www.chefdepot.net/specialproducts2.htm

This is similar to what I have, only mine is one piece without the
interchangeable blades.

I have the interchangeable one, I use the coarse blade for hard cheese,
garlic, and ginger, the fine one for nutmeg and zest. It's great.

Brian

M. FERRANTE said:

Since most of us love pasta dishes, I am hopeful that someone can
suggest a good cheese grater that most would agree is worth having,
and hopefully not too expensive? I have been using the grated
store-bought cheese (Kraft), but now I intend to buy RP from our local
Italian Import Store in chunk form.

We got one of those crank-it graters from Chef-whatever, the one that
the women keep throwing parties to sell stuff. I believe it was a
Zyliss brand, and it works just fine and is very easy to take apart
and clean. I rarely use the thing, as I prefer to just use a peeler
and shave big strips of Parmesan over whatever pasta I'm having. But
I do remember my wife using it to grate chocolate that she needed to
melt for something, so it's good for more than just cheese. Course
she uses her egg slicer (can't imagine why anybody would want one) to
slice mushrooms. I prefer a simple knife and a cutting board myself,
but oh, well.

--
The Doc says my brain waves closely match those of a crazed ferret.
At least now I have an excuse.