One of the best inventions to hit our kitchens in the last 40 years has to be the rotary cheese grater as it finally made grating either cheese, nuts, or spices quick and easy. Any kitchen that is with out a hand grater like this is missing out in my opinion. It is so nice when busy with other things in the kitchen to be able to just grab the rotary cheese grater and quickly cube a piece of cheese to top eggs or to cover a bagel or whatever. Now that I am used to grabbing my hand rotary grater I am forever thinking of new ways to use it, where as before putting a small amount of cheese on something was simply not worth it.
Not all rotary cheese graters are created equal however. While the idea of a hand grater may seem so basic at first that you would think any one will do it, after going through 3 manual graters I decided that there was a need for somoene to cover there graters and review them. So in these pages you will find a review and comparison of the top rotary cheese graters or pretty much any wheel grater. Some of the top hand graters are the cuisipro grater, microplane rotary grater, zyliss cheese grater and the ever popular Starfrit