The Mighty Microplane

Posted by Maile.
When I was a child, it was my job to make the salad for dinner. Every. Night. We had salad every night.

I guess I’m glad that I learned to make salads and expect them as daily part of my life. The possibilities are endless and it’s a great way to get fresh vegetables. BUT grating things like carrots and cabbage was a problem. I used an ancient box grater and left almost as much skin in the salad as vegetable matter.

So, when I took my first class at Culinary Underground and encountered a microplane, I was pretty excited. No more skin shreds. No more fine grating and trying to capture the results by scraping between those sharp holes. No more laboriously and endlessly grating parmesan using special gadgets that never quite work.

The first thing I did after buying a microplane for myself was to get one for each of my grown-up children. I was propagating microplanes. And the first thing I thought of when we were establishing the Kitchen Corner here at Culinary Underground was microplanes.

Yes, we have microplanes, bouquets of microplanes:

• Microplane Preminum Classic Spice Grater
• Microplane Preminum Classic Medium Ribbon Grater
• Microplane Preminum Classic Zester Grater
• Microplane Mdium Classic Extra Coarse Grater

Come in and take a look. They make great gifts!