Kuhn Riokn Kitchen Gadgets
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The next in my trio of gadgets is the deceptively simple Cheese Grater and Chocolate Shaver with the following score:
Ease of Use/Performance: 21/25
Convenience/Storage 24/25
Appearance/Design 24/25
How much I enjoy 23/25
Total: 92/100
The Cheese Grater and Chocolate Shaver is a simple design and yet works so well on hard cheese and chocolate with a large hole design. The holes in the square shaped grater have two designs on each side for a different grate style, one is a hole with smooth edges that come up out of the center of the metal and the other side has four dents in the holes.
These dents are toward the handle and the top of the grater to offer a little breakup of the grates as you run cheese or chocolate over the holes. On both sides these holes have been created with a small lip or ridge coming out of the center of the piece of metal so this ridge or dent gives you the grating of your materials as you run them over the surface of the grater.
Due to the large holes you will get more food dropping into your bowl or cup when grating and less stuck into the grater to have to wash out. The handle is nice and long for an easy grip and the long design of the entire grater allows for an easy time grating over a bowl or measuring cup.
I found you could easily grate chocolate over a measuring cup with the grater resting on the edges and get all the chocolate inside the cup or even my cappuccino mug. Grating chocolate right into a bowl of ice cream was easy and resting the top of the grater on a cutting board means a steady surface and grate.
The grater does a wonderful job on hard cheese like parmesan and I found both sides give you a nice consistent grate for a bit larger cheese curls. The one side will give you a small curl about like pencil shavings from a pencil sharpener. The side with the four dents in the ridges gives you smaller shavings that work great on top of spaghetti and other recipes for a final presentation while plating the meals.
Grating a whole wedge of parmesan was quite easy and it did not take long like my box grater does and holding the cheese on the flat surface of the grater was simple and not hard to keep my knuckles out of the way. In fact I never had a problem with nicking or cutting myself on the grater at all and you can even run your knuckles on the grater and it will not cut them due to the design of the ridges instead of a cutting edge like many box and other graters.
The shavings of cheese and chocolate are uniform in shape and size on both sides and the Kuhn Rikon grater does a great job at both types and sizes of grating. The Kuhn Rikon Cheese and Chocolate Grater is well worth the low cost of $20 and a great purchase as well.