Ophelia wrote:

>> As to why pre-shred, it's all about schedule - my wife doesn't want
>> to have to grate/shred the cheese, and because I give music lessons
>> for most of my living, the hours between when school ends and dinner
>> time are my main teaching time and I'm thus unavailable to do this
>> for her - and she never knows how much she'll want, so the solution
>> has to be to give her what she's asking for, a bag of grated cheese
>> she can know is in the 'fridge.
>
> A small shredder might better. At least you won't have the storage
> problems.
>
> http://www.lakeland.co.uk/15063/I-Ca...-Measuring-Jug
>
> You can even buy electric ones.

From what I gather, those work best on hard cheeses - not sure they'd
work with cheddar. Anyone care to comment?

This is the kind I used, albeit without the nice collection container at
the bottom:

http://www.chefcentral.com/product/g...ter-black.html

I just used it on a kitchen counter and picked up the cheese by the
handful to put into the plastic bag.

-S-