the.com/cheese grater
A torture device for dairy that turns blocks into confetti you'll actually eat.
means A kitchen tool with sharp-edged holes that shreds or shaves blocks of cheese (or other food) into small pieces or fine strips.
from Simple compound of 'cheese' and 'grater' — 'grater' comes from 'grate,' which traces back through Old French 'grater' (to scratch, scrape) to a Germanic root meaning to scratch or scrape, related to English 'scratch' itself. The tool just does literally what its name says: it grates. The design — a perforated or ridged metal surface — dates back centuries, with punched-tin graters being common kitchen equipment long before anyone thought to put one in a drawer next to the peeler.
- origin
- French bakers used them for sugar before cheese, 1540s
- knuckle tax
- every grater owner eventually pays in blood
- hole shapes
- different sizes make the same cheese taste different
- apple cameo
- also shreds apples, zucchini, and chocolate convincingly