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1 Uses  



1.1  Food preparation  





1.2  In music  







2 History  





3 Variants  





4 Images  





5 In popular culture  





6 See also  





7 References  














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Box grater with a vegetable slicing surface (top) and grating surface (front) displayed

Agrater, also known as a shredder, is a kitchen utensil used to grate foods into fine pieces.

Uses[edit]

Food preparation[edit]

Grated carrot

Several types of graters feature different sizes of grating slots, and can therefore aid in the preparation of a variety of foods. They are commonly used to grate vegetables, cheese and lemonororange peel (to create zest), spices, such as ginger and nutmeg, and can also be used to grate other soft foods. They are commonly used in the preparation of toasted cheese, Welsh rarebit, egg salad, and dishes which contain cheese sauce such as macaroni and cheese, cauliflower cheese.

InSlavic cuisine, graters are commonly used to grate potatoes for preparation of dishes, including draniki, bramborakorpotato babka.

In tropical countries graters are also used to grate coconut meat. In the Indian subcontinent, the grater is used for preparation of a popular dessert, Gajar Ka Halwa.

Graters produce shreds that are thinner at the ends than the middle. This allows the grated material to melt or cook in a different manner than the shreds of mostly uniform thickness produced by the grating blade of a food processor. Hand-grated potatoes, for example, melt together more easily in a potato pancake than food-processed potato shreds.

In music[edit]

InJamaica and Belize, coconut graters are used as a traditional musical instrument[1] (along with drums, fife, and other instruments) in the performance of kumina, jonkanoo, brukdown, and sometimes mento.

History[edit]

The first attested graters were made out of bronze, and also silver alloys, in the early first millennium BCE, examples of which were uncovered from burial sites in Greece and Etruscan Italy.[2][3] In line with Homer's Iliad these were sometimes used to grate goat's cheese in the making of a type of Kykeon, a fast breaking drink.[3] The modern cheese grater was invented in France in the 1540s by François Boullier. His pewter design was intended to convert hard cheeses into something more edible.[4][unreliable source?]

Variants[edit]

Spiralizers are complex food-processing machines with grater-like mechanisms. These mechanisms rotate by the turn of a cluster to produce ribbons or noodles.

Images[edit]

In popular culture[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Brad Fredericks. "American Rhythm and Blues Influence on Early Jamaican Musical Style". Retrieved 2007-07-14.
  • ^ Rosenstock, Eva; Ebert, Julia; Scheibner, Alisa (2021-10-01). "Cultured Milk". Current Anthropology. 62 (S24). University of Chicago Press: S256–S275. doi:10.1086/714961. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 239683334.
  • ^ a b Ridgway, David (1997). "Nestor's Cup and the Etruscans". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 16 (3). Wiley (published 2002): 325–344. doi:10.1111/1468-0092.00044. ISSN 0262-5253.
  • ^ Andrews, Colman. "The 25 Most Important Inventions In Food And Drink". Business Insider. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  • ^ The Making of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles': Behind the Shells. 1991.
  • ^ Cheddar shredder - Chicago Tribune, 26 December 2013

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