What is the best way to grate Parmesan with 10% attention and no knuckle danger

[Anonymous]

I’ve just used a microplane for a decade, but with my kids underfoot I keep getting my knuckles. I find myself thinking of those rotary graters but are they any good? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I grate in a food processor
The rotary ones don't have enough power

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grate in a food processor
The rotary ones don't have enough power

This is a you problem, not a problem with the tool. FFS, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grate in a food processor
The rotary ones don't have enough power

This is a you problem, not a problem with the tool. FFS, PP.

Yeah i admit as much. The rotary one is powered by me. What's your point, crabapple?

[Anonymous]

If you need to do a lot, food processor is great. If you just want a little bit on your pasta at the table, the rotary ones are fine.

[Anonymous]

Use a large block and stop well before your knuckles are at risk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve just used a microplane for a decade, but with my kids underfoot I keep getting my knuckles. I find myself thinking of those rotary graters but are they any good? Thank you!

Teach your kids to do it
In all seriousness, I had the rotary for a while and it was a tool that I never used.

[Anonymous]

Get the medal gloves used with a mandolin.

[Anonymous]

I always grate in a mini food processor. Grating real parmesan with a microplane is wasting the cheese. What you want is small crumbly bits, not fluffy shreds, and the food processor is best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grate in a food processor
The rotary ones don't have enough power

This is a you problem, not a problem with the tool. FFS, PP.

Yeah i admit as much. The rotary one is powered by me. What's your point, crabapple?

Another Luddite upset that their oddly specific talent is being obsoleted by a machine, making their years long investment in wrist strength worthless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grate in a food processor
The rotary ones don't have enough power

This is a you problem, not a problem with the tool. FFS, PP.

Yeah i admit as much. The rotary one is powered by me. What's your point, crabapple?

The point is that telling the OP that a rotary grater doesn't work because *you* don't have the strength or coordination to work one doesn't mean that it won't work for her. I'd have thought that was obvious, but apparently some people (ahem) are slow, as well as weak and uncoordinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always grate in a mini food processor. Grating real parmesan with a microplane is wasting the cheese. What you want is small crumbly bits, not fluffy shreds, and the food processor is best.

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always grate in a mini food processor. Grating real parmesan with a microplane is wasting the cheese. What you want is small crumbly bits, not fluffy shreds, and the food processor is best.

Why is that a waste?
I love the fluffy shreds on my pasta for Parmesan or pecorino Romano.

[Anonymous]

Food processor is how I do all large amounts of cheese now.

[Anonymous]

I use this rotary grater: https://www.amazon.com/ZYLISS-Classic-Rotary-Cheese-Grater/dp/B01HX6HAK6/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=HH4CPQBAGN1G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._rIl49lEGF6MdkRKBtvOZV5r9kxueeA4jiNe_bthG86PybCwKK4wt1odye73zqX82UWRiAIL00yHCj1owLcr3nMgFYOnJUMlA0ygv48905GClaIvphl_kMO3oHHD41cG0iUvKFiGBrx-bifj2VNxQFyG9bYaN1FCYctg_Mzbw_0qaNcK8eq0SWvheJOwDdFikt8XiQQu3u0I41Sle4ZWSpoIv-WnuMuvK8azMGmFUV4VGjCXMPVRI6VVas_U7jnr29qtKRPP6ilHib8oXzH6We9jLcp7nP1okPQ71WTUxpk.NGy67nUAhqoXcntY54_sk3vYCDGGiOnvM5Vw62d4hQI&dib_tag=se&keywords=parmesan%2Bgrater&qid=1736518013&sprefix=parmesan%2Bgrater%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&th=1

We tend to just keep the grater in the fridge (with whatever crumbles were left from the last time we used it) and then add cheese as needed. It disassembles easily and is dishwasher safe.