"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> D.Currie wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, I've gone though so many cheese grating devices in my
>> time...this must be my major impulse-buy weakness. I was cleaning out
>> kitchen gadgets a while back, and I got rid of quite a few grating
>> devices that just didn't do the job. I had rotary graters and box
>> graters, and all sorts of stupid gadgets. For big jobs, my kitchenaid has
>> a grater device which does a good job, but I went through a lot of hand
>> graters before I figured out what I liked for the small jobs.
>
> So don't keep me in suspense!! Which one was it? I'm leaning on the
> Zyliss, but haven't actually used one. I use a small box grater for small
> jobs, and my Cuisinart for big ones.
> Goomba

The Zyliss with the big barrel does softer cheeses like a dream. I use it
for mozzarella, cheddar, that type of thing. I was surprised at how well it
does those, considering how annoying those usually are to deal with unless
you freeze them first to get them harder.

It's also fine with harder cheeses like parm, but I've also got a whole set
of microplane graters, so depending on what I'm using the cheese for, I like
using those to get different textures.

Donna