A Cheese Grater

[MarkF]

After 27 years my cheese grater has died, it's still functioning perfectly but I am fed up of eating rust. If it was 1980 I know that replacing a cheese grater would be a simple procedure, today, I know it going to cause me stress, after all, my tin opener lasted a quarter of a century, yet I went through 3 replacements the same day it died................

I don't want a £500 cheese grater, nor a £5 one, I just want cheese grater that will last a while. I want one that looks just like this but one that is made of metal, like my old one, decent metal, not cheese metal. I can tell, just by the pic, exactly what will happen if I buy this one, the first time I use it a bit of cheese-pressure and the legs will buckle, the feet will slip, then pop off, the thing will explode and there'll be cheese everywhere.

I don't want a hand held "board", I don't want one with the vertical roller, I want one like this, but made of metal. Right, where can I get one?

 

[young Ed]

sorry not a clue on the type you want but we have one like this, not sure on what size ours is though!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/9-BOX-GRA...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item2a39612cac

stable and solid and hasn't rusted yet, nothing moving to go wrong and we have had it so long i can't remember the last one we had!

another simple kitchen equipment we are constantly battling to find a good one is a simple potato peeler to make matters worse we have 3 right handed people and 2 left handed people in this family and apparently they are handed?
Cheers Ed

 

[ianrauk]

another simple kitchen equipment we are constantly battling to find a good one is a simple potato peeler to make matters worse we have 3 right handed people and 2 left handed people in this family and apparently they are handed?
Cheers Ed

We have a peeler that has two blades, for left and right handers. They are easy to find.

 

[Profpointy]

I had one rather like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kitchen-C...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item540ff72250
but not necessarily that very one. It got lost somewhere along the way, and I've now got much the same in plastic (metal blades). Works OK. The standard box time is hard to beat though

 

[KneesUp]

Would this type be acceptable? My parents have one that I suspect to be the only cheese grater they have ever owned, making it 44 years old.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KITCHEN-C...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item1e603f357e

 

[KneesUp]

Cross post with @Profpointy

 

[MarkF]

I had one rather like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kitchen-C...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item540ff72250
but not necessarily that very one. It got lost somewhere along the way, and I've now got much the same in plastic (metal blades). Works OK. The standard box time is hard to beat though

They roller ones clog up more than the ones with a horizontal blade. Don't want one.

sorry not a clue on the type you want but we have one like this, not sure on what size ours is though!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/9-BOX-GRA...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item2a39612cac

stable and solid and hasn't rusted yet, nothing moving to go wrong and we have had it so long i can't remember the last one we had!

I have one as back up, it's boring, it's not pleasurable to use and the cheese doesn't fall into a neat "volcano".

 

[Cheddar George]

After 27 years my cheese grater has died, it's still functioning perfectly but I am fed up of eating rust. If it was 1980 I know that replacing a cheese grater would be a simple procedure, today, I know it going to cause me stress, after all, my tin opener lasted a quarter of a century, yet I went through 3 replacements the same day it died................

I don't want a £500 cheese grater, nor a £5 one, I just want cheese grater that will last a while. I want one that looks just like this but one that is made of metal, like my old one, decent metal, not cheese metal. I can tell, just by the pic, exactly what will happen if I buy this one, the first time I use it a bit of cheese-pressure and the legs will buckle, the feet will slip, then pop off, the thing will explode and there'll be cheese everywhere.

I don't want a hand held "board", I don't want one with the vertical roller, I want one like this, but made of metal. Right, where can I get one?

What is that ? I've never seen a cheese grater that looks like that. It looks like some kind
of lunar landing module from the 1960's.
Cheese graters should be square, simple and foolproof (mind your fingers .... don't get distracted!)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Would this type be acceptable? My parents have one that I suspect to be the only cheese grater they have ever owned, making it 44 years old.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KITCHEN-C...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item1e603f357e

Known as a Mouli in our house:

Anything here?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&...vptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_72su8bs4hw_b

 

[KneesUp]

Known as a Mouli in our house:

We used to call it Dave

 

[MarkF]

Looked at Ebay and Amazon, was told Clas Ohlson did them but when I went to Leeds today, I found it was another cheap plastic model.

 

[Stephen Piper]

Search 'Mouli grater' you get things like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-T...llectables_Kitchenalia_RL&hash=item5408df2164

 

[winjim]

If your only problem is rust then all you need to do is give it a good clean and a spray with GT-85.

 

[AndyRM]

I found one on Etsy that looks in decent nick. Can't find anywhere that makes a metal one these days.

Can you not eat around the rust?

 

[winjim]

Or take a look at these ones.