Cheese Graters

Well? Which one is best Veeky Forums?

Warning: your answer has a direct impact on your sexuality

Box grater.

Neither.

A cheese grater is fine for cheese, great for potatoes for hash browns, but not much else. Amicro planer is ok for cheese, useless for potatoes, but great for garlic, ginger, zesting citrus fruits, and also nice for grating chili peppers. Works best if you freeze the chilis first. In short, the micro planer is the superior kitchen tool, unless you live on hash brown potatoes.

It depends on how much cheese i need

I have one of these, it's really the patrician's choice

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"say when"

how do you use/what is the purpose of the side of the box grater that looks like this? I tried to use it for grated parmesan, but hardly anything came off and it was impossible to clean

Looks like a really shit design. Prolly sold a lot to hipsters.

I'm going to blow your mind, user.

Isn't that the facial exfoliation side?

>literally a cube
I hate memes

it's the finest grating, which means larger surface area which in turn leads to faster melting when u top of pizzas and pastas

grate hard and fast and put it in the sink to loosen the stuck cheese immediately

I use it for grating nutmeg usually. Not the best but it gets the job done

that seems much more practical than cheese

The question was which one is best, not “why would you own one when you can own 3 or 4 in one.” Obviously I know of these. I’m not retarded. I don’t use them tho. I have a grater and a micro planer. I find them easier to clean when they aren’t stuck together.

Clearly.

>I have a grater and a micro planer.
why do you keep differentiating them like that?
Micrplane makes box graters.

I suppose these graters are fine if you just want to get something over with quickly. I personally use a paring knife to shave my cheese and then slice it into equally sized shreds because I care about my cooking and need complete control over every aspect of the process.

The user you replied to was getting at the fact that "Microplane" is a brand that produces multiple kinds of cheese graters, not just the microplane (single flat bar stuck to a handle) grater

But you are right about it being much easier to clean when it's not shaped like a box.

Not that guy but I believe their original product was the stick with the unique shaving blades.

Maytag makes blue cheese but when you say Maytag most people think washing machines.

fuck

you probably peel your potatoes with a pairing knife too right?

their original product was wood planes and rasps for woodworking. chefs noticed it worked well with food so they opened a food based line.

Of course. However, I find that for most purposes you get best results from a potato by leaving its skin on. There are only a small number of applications for which you want the smooth consistency that you can only achieve by removing the skin.

I stand corrected.

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2nd best is this.

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neither

Imagine the type of person who would wear that shirt.

I actually have one in that shape, and I have no idea how the fuck you're supposed to use it. You can't really hold it with one hand and grate cheese with the other, since the handle doesn't let you grip it right. And it's not tall enough to just set on a plate and grate on that, you only have a tiny space for the grated cheese to fit.

How the fuck do you use a cheese grater like that?

microplane isn't as good for shredding cheeses like mozzarella and cheddar.

box grater and microplane. that other thing in op's pic looks like some dollar store level bullshit.

Actual cheddar shreds just fine with a microplane. American cheese marketed as cheddar, while tasty, is too soft and I agree would be a pain to grate.

You don't shred or grate actual mozzarella. It's too soft and wet.

This you plebs.

>bitch to clean
>overpriced and antiquated
>bitch to clean

You ledge it between your belly and a wall

lol you're right, for some reason my grandma and mom always used them and it is awkward to use unless you kinda put all your fingers through one side and hold it. you can't really just rest it on the surface you're shredding onto because it just slips.

>for some reason my grandma and mom always used them
>it is awkward to use unless you kinda put all your fingers through one side and hold it. you can't really just rest it on the surface you're shredding onto because it just slips

Dude, you just described how your dad and grandpa used your mom and grandma. For them, using a shit tier cheese grater and not talking back was probably the high point of their day.

a lot of people prefer the frelemudex, but I'm a pole grater guy.

Depends what you're doing OP, obviously.
Cheddar-like cheeses, and those of medium/soft hardness need a coarser grind, and therefore the box grater is better. (It's also more comfortable to use when grating a large block)

But the microplane has its uses when it comes to grating extremely hard and dry cheeses such as a parmesan, or for grating some garlic cloves, or some lemon/lime zest

i have and use both

The stainless steel ones are a cinch to clean, if you have a brush. The come completely apart too.

If that's the exact device you used, I'm not surprised. That looms like a zester, not a grater