Choosing a cheese grater

Delicious quality cheese is a great addition to many dishes. For their correct and beautiful presentation, you will definitely need an excellent cheese grater.

A familiar option for everyone is a small manual grater for cheese of any hardness. It can be supplied complete with a container and will not take up much space on the kitchen shelf. Thanks to this option, the cheese will be saturated with oxygen, and in this case, the taste of your dishes will acquire a richness. A much more modern option for slicing is an electric type or a mechanical grater, during the operation of which almost no effort is needed.

The rotary grater is very popular with consumers - a cross between a conventional manual grater and an electric version. A rotary grater is very similar to a meat grinder: a piece of cheese is placed in a special hole, then you need to twist the handle, sharp knives in the drum will quickly turn this piece of cheese into a fragrant and very beautiful shavings.

Professional automatic electric graters have a collapsible design, so their elements are easy to clean and wash. A chef working with a modern cheese grater is reliably protected from interaction with grinding elements. Depending on the subspecies of the cheese grater itself (and it can be disk or with a drum), the type of product is also selected: either soft cheese varieties or hard ones.

This type of industrial equipment is irreplaceable in factories, canteens, restaurants and other catering establishments, where a large flow of visitors passes.

Almost all rotary devices and electric graters are universal - they are suitable not only for high-quality and fast grinding of cheese, but also for grinding nuts and chocolate, that is, as a confectionery tool. For semi-hard or soft cheeses, if you are planning to make pizza or cheese soup, a manual grater will suffice.

In order to choose the best cheese grater, you need to find out which manufacturers produce products of this kind, and what reviews customers leave about these products.

If you want to buy a cheese grater that will cope with a huge amount of cheese product, then first of all you should turn your attention to well-known manufacturers of professional kitchen and restaurant equipment.

The 3-in-1 grater of the Royalty Line brand will grate the cheese as quickly as possible and in any required quantity. The blades of the devices of this manufacturer are made of stainless steel, however, it will be simply impossible to get hurt by them. Just as you don’t have to collect cheese crumbs scattered on the floor (as is the case with hand graters), the product itself is consumed economically. In addition, sharp knives will crunch hard nuts or chocolate, ginger or garlic without any difficulty.

The Apach cheese grater will also save you time. The design of the devices is designed in such a way that all sharp parts are strictly inside the device. Thanks to this idea, the user will not be able to get injured. Such popular devices are created only from the highest quality materials, which makes it possible for them to serve as long as possible.

Liloma is also one of the most renowned companies in the world for the manufacture of appliances for restaurants, bars and hotels.... The products are known for their excellent quality, increased productivity, 100% reliability and not the highest cost. Each type of Liloma equipment has a quality certificate, on the company's website you can see positive reviews from grateful consumers.

As for manual cheese graters, here the circle of manufacturers will be wider - many companies produce such devices for comfortable work in the kitchen.

Microplane manufactures tools that are perfect for all types of cheese... For example, with one tool, grated cheese will be processed into short chips (which is very convenient for decorating pizza or for various salads). Soft and medium cheeses, if grated on a coarse grater, can be added to cheese casseroles, pies.

If you decide to purchase a cheese grater, then the very first question you need to answer is - how much cheese you will rub on it... And if this amount is minimal, then you should go to the counter with hand-made models, but it's another matter if you need this device for a significant amount of cheese.

When choosing a manual cheese grater, you need to pay attention to the quality of the metal used, to clarify which types of cheese you can grate on it, - is this grater suitable for Parmesan, or is it used only for hard cheeses.

If you decide to purchase an electric cheese grater, then you should pay attention to:

• compactness of the device;

• its power consumption during continuous operation;

• what exactly can be crushed using such a device;

• availability of multilevel protection;

• material of manufacture;

• unpretentious maintenance;

• price;

• performance.

The first thing to know when working with electrical equipment is how to properly care for it. In the case of electric graters, do not forget that cleaning of this kind of expensive equipment should be carried out using water and a special detergent; rinsing these devices under a stream of liquid or steam is strictly prohibited.

Before you start washing, you should well clean off the remnants of the cheese from the loading hopper and all the knives, and only after that you can start washing all the elements. For deep cleaning, special products should be used.

By the way, sometimes you should disinfect all the parts of the cheese grater.... All components of the device are subject to such cleaning, with the exception of the motor. For the best cleaning, they can be soaked in a solution or immersed in it for 1-2 minutes, after which everything is rinsed with water and dried.

If you are concerned about the question of how to wash a fine grater after it has turned the cheese into beautiful shavings, then you should know that there are many ways to clean it. Here is some of them.

1. You can take a lemon, cut it in half, and grate it. At the same time, pulp and juice will begin to penetrate into all the holes. It is worth waiting a little for the juice to affect the cheese, and after that we rinse the product under running hot water. The cheese will wash off quickly.

2. A good way to clean your hand grater is to use a toothbrush. Flexible and stiff bristles will not snag on the grater blades, so they will not cut. The bristles will fit perfectly even in small spaces and will remove stuck pieces of food very well.

3. There is one trick that will allow you to quickly and easily wash your hand grater after rubbing the cheese. To do this, you need regular vegetable oil. The grater is greased thickly with butter before grating the cheese on it. This will prevent the grated cheese from clumping and sticking together, and the grater will wash off perfectly.