I don't have one. I've got one of these types which is much easier to use
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I use the drum with the big holes on it.

I love that simple German dish, Fractal Käse und Mandel Brot.

I use the small smooth slots on my four sided grater for parmagianno and similar. I have a convex hard cheese grater but it is too fiddly.
I also use the other side with the tiny spiky holes for grating nutmeg and cinnamon etc.

i scrape hard cheeses with a knife edge or a spoon on an edge.


some might say i prepare food like an animal, i prefer the term "rustic".

If something has been through an extra process and is still sold cheaper I would ask why.

BTW Tesco Mature strength 3 is £8 /KG grated and £5.56/KG ungrated. (online)

I use the top three. Big and small for cheese (depending on what size I need) and the holes with sticky-outy bits for grating lemon/lime peel.

I don't have a four-sided one anymore.
I have one with a handle

Or get a Micro-Plane grater..... it's a piece of cake with one of these

Never had one, my parents used to have one that looked like D if you look above it, had a few different size holes on it and a slicer on the back, I have no idea where it went.

I have got a flat one and use fine size, but then I only normally grate cheese.

I thought it was funny.

I have a 4-sided one WITH a handle. Blows the mind, doesn't it

I do too. AND wait for it........ I use all four sides - although not all at the same time!

Never used it, but I always thought the spiky side was for bread crumbs.

it made me smile.

Haha! We haven't evolved THAT much yet

I don't understand it, or the post before it.

"Brot" is German for bread. Cheese & bread.....

Ah, Doris Lessing's least-known novel...

I've never used the slicer, have used the other three though.

I've used it for coconut and ginger before.

What would you recommend for removing the blood stains?

And there was me thinking a cheese grater was just a cheese grater...

I just use grated cheese.

Pre-grated cheese is often not real cheese but is actually analogue, a processed product that is flavoured to taste like cheese. It may be made from vegetable or animal fat and contain colouring to give it the colour of cheese - think processed burger cheese slices - but is not real cheese. Even real cheese sold as grated will also contain anti-caking agents and additives.

Our four sided cheese grater broke a couple of months back and on my next trip into Morrisons I picked up a box grater type of thing as there was no 4 sided graters left. Oh what a big mistake! It wasn't a very functional grater at all, grater horizontally into a box, always hurt my hand, ended up buying a 4 sided grater not long after

Lift the floorboards and turn them over and nail them back in place (same applies for paving / patio slabs). No-one will notice, out of sight, out of mind and that malarky.