On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 14:06:55 +1000, "DavidW" > wrote:

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>No, it takes 4-5 minutes to grate enough hard parmesan for one serve with my
>current grater (for me, 20-25 grams). Add more time as the piece gets smaller.
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You must be doing something wrong or the cheese you have is an old,
hard, dried out brick. I use a hand-held microplane. It is labeled
'fine.' It grates finer than I would like, but I love the results
when I am zesting citrus. I could get an additional microplane, but
why bother? Anyway, get a new device that is still sharp or don't
store such a large block of cheese that it dries out.
Janet US