"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:59:07 +1000, DavidW wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:55:31 +1000, DavidW wrote:
>>>
>>>> I bought some parmesan cheese at a delicatessen and got them to
>>>> grate it just to save me the trouble, but their machine grates it
>>>> too finely IMO. I don't think grated parmesan should be the
>>>> consistency of talcum powder (okay, slight exaggeration, but it's
>>>> very fine). I could get a coarser result myself with a hand grater,
>>>> but I was wondering if anyone knows of an electrical kitchen device,
>>>> or an attachment for a food processor, that would do a similar job.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> You're obviously too lazy to grate cheese AND look it up on the Web.
>>
>> What's the difference between looking it up on the web and looking it up
>> here? I
>> can look up graters on the web but how will I know they won't produce the
>> same
>> result as the delicatessen? Here I can describe what I'm after and maybe
>> cooks
>> with experience with different graters can suggest something that fits
>> what I'm
>> looking for. I am willing to grate by hand if necessary but when I do I
>> get a
>> few large chunks and it becomes difficult to grate as the piece gets
>> smaller.
>
> And were supposed to guess what food processor or mixer you have or
> what you consider the proper size grate for your unknown applications.
> Sorry, I just don't have any sympathy for people who could have grated
> 2 lbs of parmesan in the time it took them to come in here and ask
> questions that require a lot of speculation and bandwidth.

He has admitted that he doesn't know different graters. Now when I was a
kid, I only knew of a box grater because it was what my mom had. My
roommate's mom only a Mouli grater and that was all that he knew. To
placate him, I got a Mouli. I liked it because I had no more grated
knuckles. In those days I did a lot of baking and used mine more for
chocolate than cheese.

Also in those days there was no Internet, I don't think I was getting any
cooking catalogs and I didn't hang out in cooking type shops because I
didn't really have money to buy things and I had to make do with what I had.

These days? I probably have more time than money but when it comes to
things like graters it's not a hardship to buy a new one if I see one that
looks interesting. That's how I discovered the microplane. I probably also
saw one being used on a cooking show. Don't remember really.

I can't see the harm in asking anything! At least he asked something food
related.