Product Features:

• High-quality stainless steel with grating edges that stay razor sharp
• Excellent for hard cheeses,onions, citrus fruits, ginger and more
• Designed to extract the best flavor from your food

Product Description:

Here's a zester that means business! You'll have a mound of zest in seconds flat with minimal effort. This tool also shreds Parmesan and other hard cheeses quickly and efficiently.

Customer Reviews:
Great tool for zest.
I have used a Microplane for years now in a restaurant. This zester is great for getting a fine light zest off of any citris. Besides that I usually do not use this grater.

I like traditional graters over the Microplane because they will give you a thicker shred. Most of the time, even on citrus, I end up using my fine tooth Calphelon shredder over the Mirocplane. My Calphelon grater has a rubber end that you can rest on the cutting board which makes grating much easier. The Microplane has no rubber end. The Microplane gives you a shred that will almost disappear in food. The thicker shred will show up better in food. Also the thicker shred on citrus helps adds more flavor of the rind to food.

The Microplane is light and has a nice design. The razor teeth on it will dull about as fast as any razor. After a couple of months of use you will start to notice it getting duller. Most will probably not last a year of daily use or they will be dull enough you will want a new one.

Most of my problems with the Microplane are of my personal opinion. I know a lot of chefs that love the Microplane and will use it consistently. You have to try this zester to know if you will love it, like it or hate it. The first time I used one I was totally surprised with the results. They are nice to have around when you need that thin fluffy zest/grate.

2010-07-29 | kooluhlz (Kalamazoo, MI USA) | Rating: 3

Easy to use, and it works well
I used this grater today for the first time to grate chocolate after my regular box grater wasn't "cutting it". This does the job. It has a very sharp blade. It does grate things super fine so hang on to your box grater (or other grater versions made by this company) for grating larger pieces. I was using it to grate chocolate for ben & jerry's cherry garcia ice-cream and this did the trick. Though I decided I wanted chocolate chunks instead of shavings, I fortunately had this so I felt like I was able to make that choice instead of not being able to b/c of my other grater. I will use this for grating parmesan cheese for cooking (another reviewer noted - use a bigger grater if you want larger pieces of cheese for garnish) and spices, and in any situation in which I want a finely grated food product. Oh, and it's lightweight, easy to hold, and really looks like a quality product.

2010-06-30 (La Mesa, CA) | Rating: 5

Amazing!
This grater is absolutely amazing! it cut down prep time in my kitchen by at least 20-30 minutes and what used to take me forever now just takes seconds! However, one thing that I feel that I should note is that the blades on the grater are very sharp and I've actually cut myself already so watch out! otherwise, this is a lifesaver and belongs in every kitchen.

2010-06-28 (Kansas City) | Rating: 5