Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:
> For use in the kitchen, does one need to buy Microplane graters that are
> packaged for kitchen stores, or can one use the ones found in the hardware
> sections of stores? They look pretty much the same to me but perhaps the
> hardware store ones have some kind of non-food-safe coating on them?
>
> rona
>

The rasp style ones he

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...306793-4258543

don't seem to be more expensive than the Lee Valley ones -- and there are
other styles that seem particularly useful in the kitchen -- like the plastic
sided ones you can use with the little attachment that holds what you
are grating and saves your fingertips. I got one for the holidays and it
works well. Amazon often puts them in the Friday sale too.

Peggy in snowy NE PA.