Vegetable Cheese Grater with 3 Interchanging Rotary Ultra Sharp Cylinders Stainless Steel Drums and Slicer

Great item

I was like you, once. I had a cooking project in mind and needed to shred a large amount of cheese - and fast - but wasn't quite ready to spring for a higher-end shredding device or to finally get a fancy counter-top mixing tool with an assortment of blades and grating tools.I was naive, then. Naive and willing to make what I thought was a compromise but was instead the beginning of a brief, maddening odyssey of scraped knuckles, gunked up grating barrels, a somehow slower and more inefficient process than just smashing it with a hammer, and writing an Amazon review not just to vent but to warn others of the folly of purchasing this Necronomicon du Fromage. Sure, it's made of pretty sturdy metal and I'll bet this thing will be around long after you and I depart this world. But the design flaws are so bad it is not worth your time and frankly you should just stop reading and go look up another grater. Spend that extra $20. Spend your cheddar on something *meaningful* to shred your cheddar.Heed my warning, and turn back now: the bad reviews on this thing are not a joke. You may be patient. You might have a knack for using something that others can't figure out. You may have an idea of a slight adjustment you can make. You might be, as I once thought of myself, better than the average Amazon reviewer and that it was all user error and not in the product itself.Somehow, some way, you might be about to land upon the conclusion that "It can't be that bad."You are wrong.You will fail, you will be sad, and you will remember that you didn't listen to me because you thought for this price it'd be worth enduring what you think are small details to accomplish your bigger goals.Here's what's wrong with this tool:- This barrel grater relies upon pressure from you squeezing your hands on the handle, which opens to allow you to feed something in to the grater, to push the cheese down and hold it in place to be shredded while you turn the crank. The handle is too short and you will hit your fingers/knuckles, making it impossible to get a rhythm. It is poorly designed. This could be fixed by offsetting either the handle or the crank in a way that would fix this problem. But, they didn't.- The place for you to put your cheese/soft object you'd like to grate in has a gap between the hopper and the grater barrel, meaning at some point you'll eject an awkwardly thin slice of cheese- There are rubber rings around the side of each grating barrel that cannot be removed but will fill up with cheese and gunk. Tearing these off causes the barrel to not fit properly and exacerbates the above issue.- You will spend time writing a review to warn others that it is seriously bad, will actually return a cheap product you bought on Amazon, and then the makers will keep making money anyways.

I've used mine now maybe 10-15 times. I've used it from everything from cheeses to fine slices of some vegetables. I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a simple device. It dismantles easily for hand cleaning. I suppose it could be cleaned in the dishwasher. I am looking forward to having this in my kitchen as one of the gadgets that I will go to a lot. It comes with 3 blades which are easily exchanged. If I had any criticism it would be that I would like to have it have its own storage container for quick organization. I would buy it again if I ever need another one.

This grater works well, it is easy to clean and does a fantastic job of shredding cheese and nuts. It is stainless steel and the lid on the grater locks in place, for me that is a huge plus. The downside for me is the handle on the cutter barrels, they too are stainless steel, but they have a tendency to bend in to the grater unit as a whole, so you have to put the handle away slightly or the barrel won't turn as it is rubbing against the unit. Could be I am too heavy handed, but I wasn't anticipating arm of the cutter barrel to be so easy to flex.

The grater is super easy to clean, just load it into your dishwasher's top rack and the stainless steel comes out beautifully. Unfortunately, the steel isn't very thick which allows the grater to flex in your hands while using it causing lots of friction as the blades are spun. I've had cheap plastic graters of a similar design in the past that were far easier to use, though much more fragile and breakable. Again, not as easy to use as expected, but still far superior to the knuckle buster it replaced. We'll see how long it lasts.

I have used this grater before and loved it. So much easier and with less cleanup than a stand alone grater. It works with all cheeses and with almost any vegetable, so when mine was lost in a move, I was looking for a way to replace it. It also takes up less space than a standard grater - a benefit in a small kitchen!

This design has serious problems. The first one you notice is that you hit your thumb on the clamp when you rotate the handle. Next, the grating drum gets disconnected from the handle in that you turn it and no cheese gets grated cause the handle is turning, but the grating wheel is just sitting there cause the mechanism is uncoupled. There are 2 other grating wheels in sizes rarely used. I was able to grate cheese a few times before it got uncoupled. I guess that’s what you get for buying a cheaper model, but at $17+ it’s not that cheap

I found the grater to sturdy and easy to use. If held properly with Left thumb on top of handle the right crank turns easily and requires minimal pressure. Very similar to other hand held graters I’ve had in the past. I use it for hard cheeses such as Parmesan or Asiago and it works great. I wouldn’t use for large quantities or soft cheeses - this really isn’t the correct size or design for either.