Cheese grater horizontal? and other gadget gaffes!

Olliebeak1951

Carrot007 wrote: »

I have seen the new ones but never used them. I just took my mothers when I lerft home! (She never used it!).

Too right - good for you, if she never used it :rotfl:.

Wizard_of_Id

My cheese grater sits vertically with the cheese block in a specific place and I turn a handle to grate the cheese, I don't have to touch the cheese block so no grated fingers.

I see it was written for Femail so the assumption must be that men know all this stuff anyway

Frith

I would bend my cheese grater if I lay it down then grated on the top side.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Nelski wrote: »

wow so many smug all knowing people on here

I didn't know about the cheese grater so will give that a go thanks

my other recent learning was how to crush an oxo cube but all the above smart !!!!!! will of course know this

grow up folks

As long as you have a right angled/completely square/rectangular box grater, rather than the slanted ones that are standard for most people in the UK - the ones with a plastic strip around the base to stop the bottom slipping - otherwise you'd be attempting to grate uphill (and most likely grating your fingers/nails as well as the expensive worktop in the process).

I don't see the point of the fuss about flattening an OXO in the wrapper. It's either going in your food or it isn't. Faffing about trying to keep it inside without splitting the foil is pretty pointless when the entire thing crumbles just as easily in your fingers and dissolves in water perfectly anyway.

suki1964

Just use a food processor - problem solved

John_Gray

Another Fake Dilemma! Surely one buys already-grated cheese from Waitrose?

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John_Gray wrote: »

Another Fake Dilemma! Surely one buys already-grated cheese from Waitrose?

Not in my house, 12 mile round trip to the nearest one, plus ready grated cheese is a very expensive way to buy cheese I grate a bowl at a time and stick it in the fridge

VfM4meplse

John_Gray wrote: »

Another Fake Dilemma! Surely one buys already-grated cheese from Waitrose?

Only when its on offer at Lidl at a price lower than generic cheese and I can sling it into the freezer.

Although Mumsnetters are very snooty aboout it. Apparently it doesn't taste nice, but I think its fine.

XRAT

Put bread in the toaster long side horizontal to avoid a bit sticking out of the top going untoasted.
I was surprised by my daughter's, 20 something, friend saying, "Ooh I never thought of that."

Abu_Milhem

Don't bother with rolling them in strip of rubbber or similar. Just crush the clove with the flat of a knife and the skin will slip off more easily. I'll stick to the vertical grater format thanks.