"W" > wrote in message
...
> What's the best way to flake off small pieces of a very hard cheese, like
> old parmesan? I have a great hand grinder for this that works well but
> is
> incredibly time consuming. For a large pizza it is a 15 minute workout.
> I
> tried to grind these in a nut processor and it just doesn't work well with
> large hard chunks. I tried the bottom blade in a food processor, and
> these
> don't work much better. Big chunks stick to the blade and never get
> pulverized. I'm thinking that maybe one of the special top attachments
> on
> a food processor would work, but would like to hear how others deal with
> this.
>
> This isn't a question about soft cheeses. I'm only dealing with very
> hard
> cheeses in some cases aged more than three years. Think hard and
> dense....
>


Use a microplane right over the pizza. Either a course or ribbon blade.

Robert