Graters

What are those bobbly bits for on the side of cheese graters for?

Does it actually work well? I mean, if it's for zesting citrus fruit, doesn't the zest just get stuck on the grater? Bobbly bits...well, you all know what I mean!

Public Comments

1. Different Ways of grating cheese maybe? But does anyone actually use them... ;-)
2. nutmeg
3. for grating even finer cheese. I use that ALL the time.
4. Nutmeg and zesting cirtus fruit. I only use it for nutmeg though, and it works.
5. To grate cheese into Parmesan for spaghetti.
6. That's so funny.... bobbly bits!! Anyhow, they are for grating things like lemon zest or fresh ginger.
7. You've made the mistake of assuming that the grater is a cheese-grater. The grater can be used for spices, chocolate, fruit peel, 'normal' cheese, harder cheeses like parmesan. There are loads of different things you can grate.
8. Makes lumps of cheese.
9. to make the cheese grates feel they r great and they can also have makeup to attract others and look different from there counter parts
10. What I have found them mostly used for in my kitchen is to grind off bits of your hand if you aren't careful when you grate things.
11. There are 'scratchy' bits for zesting citrus fruits - i.e. scraping the surface layer of a lemon, lime or orange, to put into a recipe.
12. It's for getting the zest of a citrus fruit. Yes, most of it does sort of stick between the "bobbly bits", but if you run a knife along the grooves between the bobbles first one way then the other most of the zest comes off.
13. For zesting citrus fruit. They work pretty well, actually. The zest does have a tendency to get stuck, but brushing it off (carefully, so you don't lose much) with a pastry brush works wonderfully.
14. Could be for grating nutmeg. You can use a flat pastry brush to get the bits out.