

There’s an additional mini zester/ginger grater on the slicer side that's purely ornamental.


RSVP International Endurance Box Grater: While the RSVP International Endurance Box Grater fancies itself "commercial quality," that description could only really apply to the side with large grating holes as food tended to clump in the medium holes and the slicer and zester made me very, very sad.For the same price, the KitchenAid performed much better. Food tended to stick in large holes, scraping was required for the zesting. OXO Box Grater: The slicer on the OXO stamped box grater is awkward to use and essentially useless, as the slices produced ended up in potluck shapes.Also, the zester, while doing a decent job with citrus, failed with nutmeg and ginger. Something to the effect of "Extremely sharp, keep away from children, and Kathleen." So this is not the grater you want the kids to use when they want to help in the kitchen. It's so sharp that it was the only one tested that included a sharpness warning on the packaging. Which is another way of saying that this model is extremely sharp and very good at grating. OXO Etched Box Grater with Removable Zester: Please excuse any typos as the OXO Etched Box Grater with Removable Zester is responsible for slicing off a wee bit of my thumb.A lot of elbow grease was required for shredding, too. It feels flimsy and is-when I tapped it against the sink to release shreds, it dented. NorPro Stainless Steel Grater: This is cheap, but you get what you pay for ($9.97 or two for $16 on Amazon).There’s a reason that the brand has made its name on zesters-this was the best zester of the bunch, producing small particles that weren’t quite as stringy and wispy as the other etched zesters, but also not as powdery as the stamped ones. The shreds, however, were flat, delicate, and downright beautiful. I also found it stumpy, with a limited surface area that maked it inefficient and somewhat awkward to use.
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Microplane 4-sided Stainless Steel Professional Box Grater: I found the Microplane 4-sided Stainless Steel Professional Box Grater bulky, especially with its plastic safety shield.Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik The Competition If you make a lot of pasta at home, that might be worth taking into account.

This won't have much of an effect on most dishes, though Daniel has previously found that more powdery grated cheese melts into creamy emulsified cheese sauces like cacio e pepe more successfully than those fluffy flakes. Etched models like Oxo, Cuisipro, and Microplane worked best in terms of clean shredding, producing fine, fluffy shreds with no clogging, while the star-shaped grating rasps on the stamped models made a more powdery grated cheese. The main point of difference became evident while I was grating hard cheeses on the zesters. Right: photochemically etched grater.īefore we get to the winners, a quick note on the differences between etched versus stamped graters: While photochemically etched graters tend to be sharper than classic stamped graters, I found there wasn't a sufficiently noticeable difference between the results to make any kind of general recommendation of one kind over the other.
