graters

Zesting kitchen tools

Graters are kitchen tools with rough, perforated surfaces used to shred food into small pieces.

Cheese graters are the most common, but graters work on vegetables, citrus zest, nutmeg, and ginger.

Box graters have multiple sides with different hole sizes.

Microplane graters produce fine shavings.

I need a grater for the Parmesan.

kitchenware

mandoline

Adjustable vegetable cutting tool

microplane · handheld · stainless steel · blade · holes · coarse · fine · food processor · kitchen tool · utensil

technique

shred

Torn fragment

ribbon · matchstick · shavings · pulp · texture · consistency · prep · food prep · slaw · hash browns

ingredients

cheese

Fermented milk solid

potatoes · ginger · garlic · coconut · chocolate · nutmeg · parmesan · cheddar · mozzarella · horseradish

citrus

zest

Keen enjoyment or peel

grapefruit · citron · yuzu · peel · rind · aromatic · oils · flavor · fragrant · tangy

Categories
Opposites
food processing action

gratersblenders

Motorized mixing appliances

food processors · smoothers · mashers · mixers · whisks

cutting method

gratersslicers

Tools that cut thinly

choppers · mandolines · dicers · mashers · crushers

food transformation direction

graterspresses

Pushes or flattens

compactors

Phrases
Family

grate, grater, grated, ungrateful, ingrate, grates, ungratefulness, ingrates, ungratefully

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G