On 2014-09-11 1:48 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:24:48 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:18:23 +1000, DavidW wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, so I got myself a plane grater, something roughly like this:
>>>> http://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PD...ese-grater.jpg
>>>>
>>>> I grated some Zanetti Reggiano with it. It works okay. It produces short,
>>>> tiny
>>>> filaments rather than grains. Not ideal, but better than talcum powder
>>>> from the
>>>> deli. It takes 4-5 minutes' grating per serve (about 20g), which is too
>>>> long
>>>> really.
>>>
>>> I just timed how long it took me to Microplane a 1" cube of Parmesan
>>> cheese. That's about 1 ounce from what I read on the nutrition
>>> labels. That's 27 grams. Anybody want to take a guess how long it
>>> took?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Drum Roll............
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 12 seconds.
>>>
>>> And that wasn't even rushing it too hard. This was using the classic
>>> slim, unidirection 8" blade grater. With a 2 second deduction since
>>> that last 2-3 grams of a 1" block gets hard to hold without shredding
>>> your fingers.
>>>
>>> 12 seconds for me, 4-5 *minutes* for David. I did it in 1/25th the
>>> time he claims. Hmmm.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah. That sounded weird. Only things I can figure is that he bought a
>> dull grater and/or is pressing the cheese far too hard or maybe was holding
>> the grater backwards.
>
> Yeah, figgures you'd think that... only person on the planet who would
> use a grater in the opposite direction is Juli Bove. LOL
>


What's a little funnier is that I was the one who had suggested that if
it took him that long to grate the cheese he might be doing it
backwards. Julie claims not to read my posts but she seems to have seen
that anyway.