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View Poll Results: Which grater options do you employ?
Large holes 65 84.42%
Small holes 20 25.97%
Small holes with sticky-out spikes 12 15.58%
Three curvy slices 10 12.99%
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Old 18-12-2016, 22:04
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Have you ever upcycled a cheese grater into a shabby chic earring holder?
The mind boggles.....Well, mine does anyways! . Pics please


LOL, just re-read your reply and realised that you meant earring holder and not earrings.......
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Old 18-12-2016, 22:24
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I use the large hole option after I have nailed my bollocks to the table.

The frisson is much improved and the sensation far more powerful and immediate.
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Old 18-12-2016, 22:27
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we just buy the cheese pre grated. saves time & money ( economical here) If we need veg grated or chopped we use the food processor
How can it be more economical to buy cheese pre grated?
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Old 18-12-2016, 22:42
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How can it be more economical to buy cheese pre grated?
I'm guessing if you don't use that much of it. I end up throwing away a lot of food when I try to buy fresh stuff and cook as none of it is made/packaged for one person.

I love that this thread has generated three pages. If anyone who likes James Acaster hasn't seen the Xmas special of Mock the Week, I recommend it. There's an hilarious bit between him and Rob Beckett.
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Old 19-12-2016, 04:44
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I love that simple German dish, Fractal Käse und Mandel Brot.
da sein, mate, none of yer weird french soup ...........
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Old 19-12-2016, 09:51
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Or get a Micro-Plane grater..... it's a piece of cake with one of these
We have some of the Microplane Gourmet Series and they are brilliant. Much better than the "traditional" four-sided graters, especially for things like nutmeg and orange and lemon zest..
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Old 19-12-2016, 17:34
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"Brot" is German for bread. Cheese & bread.....
I'm still not getting it.
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Old 19-12-2016, 19:30
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I'm still not getting it.
Sigh, when you have to explain........

Fractal cheese........"Fractal Käse" (German translation)
with
Mandel Brot - A clearly made up type of German "bread" to go with said cheese, but Mandlebrot is the most famous of the mathematical non convergent complex functions or "fractal" sets (I guess along with the Julia set).
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:39
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Sigh, when you have to explain........

Fractal cheese........"Fractal Käse" (German translation)
with
Mandel Brot - A clearly made up type of German "bread" to go with said cheese, but Mandlebrot is the most famous of the mathematical non convergent complex functions or "fractal" sets (I guess along with the Julia set).
Oh okay it's a maths joke - that explains why I don't get it. I tried googling 'fractal cheese' but nothing came up. So you have to understand the word fractal as relating to maths to even have a chance of getting anywhere near this joke. I guess you have to be there.
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:57
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Oh okay it's a maths joke - that explains why I don't get it. I tried googling 'fractal cheese' but nothing came up. So you have to understand the word fractal as relating to maths to even have a chance of getting anywhere near this joke. I guess you have to be there.
That made me laugh more than the original joke.
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Old 20-12-2016, 05:31
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A varierty of holes. Where is this in the poll ?
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:26
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Oh okay it's a maths joke - that explains why I don't get it. I tried googling 'fractal cheese' but nothing came up. So you have to understand the word fractal as relating to maths to even have a chance of getting anywhere near this joke. I guess you have to be there.
If people cannot process basic puns based on undergraduate level mathematics and the German laguage then I weep for the world; I really do.
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:33
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Oh okay it's a maths joke - that explains why I don't get it. I tried googling 'fractal cheese' but nothing came up. So you have to understand the word fractal as relating to maths to even have a chance of getting anywhere near this joke. I guess you have to be there.
you`d probably get it if you`d played around with fractal software, i`m ignorant in mathematics but they do make pretty patterns
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Old 20-12-2016, 21:17
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If people cannot process basic puns based on undergraduate level mathematics and the German laguage then I weep for the world; I really do.
I weep with you.
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Old 20-12-2016, 21:26
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Sigh, when you have to explain........

Fractal cheese........"Fractal Käse" (German translation)
with
Mandel Brot - A clearly made up type of German "bread" to go with said cheese, but Mandlebrot is the most famous of the mathematical non convergent complex functions or "fractal" sets (I guess along with the Julia set).

Only it isn't "made up" it's a type of almond biscuit here's the recipe
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Old 20-12-2016, 21:47
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I won't eat cheese that isn't presented to me in the form of a tetrahedron.
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Old 20-12-2016, 21:56
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The first and last options for me. Big holes for cheese, three curvy slices used to slice carrots or cucumber. Probably cut myself about 50% of the time with the latter so don't always use it.

Saw this vid a while back as someone using one as a stove - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4ZvQSzUCM
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Old 20-12-2016, 22:50
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That made me laugh more than the original joke.
Happy to oblige. No one can accuse me of not trying to find out the answer for myself.

If people cannot process basic puns based on undergraduate level mathematics and the German laguage then I weep for the world; I really do.
I'm guessing Brexit and Trump came as a surprise to you.
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Old 21-12-2016, 00:05
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I use one of these, which has a non-slip rubber rim around the base. You could almost grate one-handed.
Really?
I've never thought of grating cheese as erotic.
I do hope you wash your other hand afterward.
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Old 21-12-2016, 00:08
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Really?
I've never thought of grating cheese as erotic.
I do hope you wash your other hand afterward.
Erotic? No, I operate a broom with the other hand. I sweep the floor with it.
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Old 21-12-2016, 00:11
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How can it be more economical to buy cheese pre grated?
Yep. Just check price per kilo - ridiculous difference.
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Old 21-12-2016, 00:16
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Yep. Just check price per kilo - ridiculous difference.
Obviously the non-grated is cheaper, but you've got to factor in the time it takes to grate the cheese yourself, and if Peg ODwyer turns out to be one of the UK's top earners then it would be more economical for her to pay someone else to grate it.
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Old 21-12-2016, 15:43
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Erotic? No, I operate a broom with the other hand. I sweep the floor with it.
That one handed broom thread was funny. The bloke was totally convinced that one handed is fine.
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Old 21-12-2016, 16:25
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I have read this thread and have decided to use my cheese grater more often.
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Old 22-12-2016, 01:31
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That one handed broom thread was funny. The bloke was totally convinced that one handed is fine.
Turned out he was using his other hand to operate his phone. He wasn't playing with it though.
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