Product Description The teeth of this over-sized coarse grater are ideal for grating chocolate, coconut, ginger, garlic and hard cheeses. This is a professional style tool designed and built to take lots of use in busy commercial kitchens, so it will certainly stand up to daily work in your kitchen.
Amazon.com Review This manual grater coarsely grinds cheese, chocolate, or garlic with ease. Originally designed for shaving wood, the patented 18/8 stainless-steel Microplane blade has razor-sharp teeth that make grating effortless and that won't clog. The large 5-by-2-1/2-inch grating surface can handle bigger ingredients, such as fresh coconut, and the matching 18/8 stainless-steel frame and satin-finish offer durable support for the blade. The grater has a non-slip rubber grip just above its head to keep it steady on a tabletop during grating. A plastic safety cover is also included to keep fingers safe and to keep the blade from dulling while in storage. This grater is dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning. --Cristina Vaamonde
same blade but different designJuly 15, 2010 Sabrina's Kitchen 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought and compared 3 series of microplane products. They are 1. professional 2. premium 3. classic.
Here is what I found.
They are all using the same blade-made in USA but assembled in Mexico.
The designs differ. Professional is more auqare like many graters we have used from before. It is not super eye catching. The premium and classic series has that long lean body that everyone recognizes easily to be super special to microplane.
Furthermore,Premium and classic series come with plastic handles and several reviewers complain they broke if you are too forceful. The professional series are made of all stainless steel all over.
Also, the premium and the classic series differ in two things. First, at the end where it stands on the counter top, the premium comes with two tiny plastic foot, you cannot see front the pic, but they are there while the classic does not. It protects the surface of either your countertop or your mixer bowl. If you use the classic series, you might scratch the surface it comes in contact with and the classic might be easier to slip too. Second, the plastic handle is sturdier in the premium series than the classics. Other than these two, they are basically the same design.
At the end, my sturdiness ranking is 1. professional 2. premium 2. classic.
my attractiveness of its outlook ranking is 1. premium 2. classic 3. professional.
But the attractiveness is more subject to individual taste than sturdiness ranking.
My final decision is to keep the professional series made of all stainless steel for my friend who care less about the look and for me, I will stay with the premium series and its color handles. I will make sure to be super careful and not use too much force.
good grater for some things onlyJuly 13, 2010 fussy(NH, USA) I bought this grater for parmesan and pecorino cheese thinking it would be easy to grate but it did not do the job; there was a lot of resistance. My old regular box greater worked better. It is good for citrus rinds ,if you want some coarser grind than the longer stick grater does. I olso tried to grate dry bread ( I make my own crumbs )and it woked great . Maybe I won't need to use the food processor anymore.
Love itJune 20, 2010 Brett Peterson(Salt Lake City, Utah United States) it gives me the exact type of grade I am looking for with out the plastic handle that will slide off. I am glad I desited to pay a few extra dollers for the one. Well worth it. It is very easy to clean, just wach the direction you pull your fingers across the blades. Very sharp.
Wonderful graterApril 26, 2010 asiana(Chicago) The best grater that I've ever purchased..I've thrown away all my other ginger graters as all they did was take up space in my kitchen drawer. Buy it, you won't regret it!
Microplane GraterApril 21, 2010 mrsjingles(Beverly Hills, CA) This is such a handy too. Use it every day for grating cheese or lemon peel.
