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

I use the second-finest part of a plain box grater (it has small holes pushed
out from the inside, and you grate on the ragged edges). It produces a powder
(fine, but not super-fine like the deli). Parmesan is a hard cheese, so you
only get a thin layer of dust per stroke. That's why it takes so long to get 20
grams.