"Pico Rico" > wrote in message
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> "W" > wrote in message
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> > 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....
>
> I don't think any of the previous posts will serve you well at all. I am
> imagining your cheese is rock hard. I have a 1 HP cheese grater that
would
> handle it, but it is much more of chore than normally hard cheese.

Yes, exactly, rock hard. I have a plastic hand turned rotary grader,
which are all over the place on Amazon. It works extremely well even on the
hard cheese, but it is SLOW. The Shred O Matic referenced earlier might do
a better job but looks like a similar concept. Rotary is the way to go for
a hard cheese, but I was just curious if there was a low cost automated
rotary grater out there.

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W