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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    1759 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      119 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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      89 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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        39 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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      59 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          69 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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          39 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.