THIS IS AN ANTI-CAKING AGENT HATE ACCOUNT. MY CHEESE WON’T MELT PROPERLY >:{

ERADICATE CELLULOSE AND STARCH IN MY BAGS OF SHREDDED CHEESE RRRAAAHHHHHHHHH

  • First Majestic Comet
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    16411 months ago

    Okay that’s fine then, you can just buy a block of cheese and grate it yourself. There are these things called cheese gradters which exist for that very purpose.

    You can even, get this, use them to slice the cheese thinly using the slicing part of them.

    I know wild right.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      2911 months ago

      They’re an absolute nightmare to wash, though.

          • @SirQuackTheDuck
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            1311 months ago

            Woah, I don’t have one in my huge mansion. You’re so fortunate

        • @Zekas
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          1311 months ago

          Give me the money to buy a dishwasher and I will

        • WIZARD POPE💫
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          1011 months ago

          And even if it does. All the cheeses that exist are way softer than steel anyway.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            1011 months ago

            If not, something’s gone seriously wrong somewhere in the process…

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          911 months ago

          I have a tiny kitchen, there’s not enough space for one 🤷

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        You just scrub in the opposite direction…

        Now some of the other grating faces on some models that stick straight out are more of a challenge.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          311 months ago

          some of the other grating faces on some models that stick straight out are more of a challenge.

          You don’t say…

          • @Deuces
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            211 months ago

            Abandon all hope, sponges who enter here

      • First Majestic Comet
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        111 months ago

        I’ve never had issues cleaning them. They aren’t super easy to clean but I came up with a method that works well for me.

        Put it in a pot, add dishsoap, then pour boiling water in it and let it soak for a bit. Seems a bit weird and extreme but it gets majority of the cheese off of it. There’s also a technique involving lemon and salt to clean them. Oh and if one has a dishwasher that works very well too, but I know many people don’t have them (I practically don’t, since the one here doesn’t work).

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      Wait a second, these are made for grating cheese? And that’s their main purpose?

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Highly recommend getting a hand grater like the ones they use to shred Parmesan cheese in restaurants. Doesn’t work well with soft cheese but it’s great for things like old cheddar

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      811 months ago

      I don’t like the box graters like this one. OXO and Ikea both make nice ones that fit over a container to catch the grate. The OXO has eaten bits of my fingers, though.

      • ozebb
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        311 months ago

        There’s a trick to using box graters that most people don’t know (I certainly didn’t until recently)

        • Lay a towel or some parchment paper in a sheet pan (optional)
        • Lay the grater on the pan
        • With your non dominant hand, hold the handle of the grater and the rim of the sheet pan
        • With your dominant hand, grate, pushing away from you + into the countertop

        The mechanics of pushing down/away are much better than holding the thing upright, dangling it over a bowl or whatever. Easy to just push with your palm too (and keep your fingers out of the way).

    • 56!
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      211 months ago

      I just chop the cheese into small bits. One less thing to wash, and pretty much just as fast.

      • DrMango
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        1611 months ago

        To wash:

        1 chopper

        VS.

        1 grater

        🤔

        • @yetiftw
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          711 months ago

          don’t forget the cutting board!

        • @Donkter
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          611 months ago

          You ever try to hand wash a grater? It’s not impossible but I’ll take a chopper to wash any day of the week.

        • 56!
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          311 months ago

          I usually chop other stuff as well as the cheese. I started doing this when I didn’t have a grater, and discovered it wasn’t as slow/awkward as I had assumed. The result isn’t the same as grating, but it does the job most of the time.