![]() The Deiss PRO Citrus Zester & Cheese Grater has a sleek design, sharp blades, and a long grating plate. The blade is shorter than that of the Microplane and not as sharp. The OXO Good Grips Zester and Grater is designed so that it can rest on the cutting board, with an angled blade affixed to a handle and rubber feet that prevent slipping. Neither feature felt worth paying more for, though. The rubber ends allowed me to stabilize one end on a cutting board, and its handle was somewhat more comfortable to grip. The Microplane Premium Classic Series Grater didn’t strike me as a meaningful improvement on the already excellent Classic Series. But as you’d expect from Microplane, its zesting and ribbon functions worked very well, and the sturdy plastic plate that slides in and out to catch grated food makes transporting it to other vessels a breeze. Additionally, cheese gratings came out too fine, clumping up inside. With its sleek design, I was drawn to the Microplane Four Blade Four Sided Box Grater, but it didn’t perform well on coarse functions-the blades felt much too shallow for carrots, failing to catch them and causing them to slip. The container that attaches to its base (to collect grated food) tapers, meaning that its base is smaller in surface area than the grater. ![]() Its fine-grating function didn’t perform well at all as a zester either. The blades on the OXO Good Grips Box Grater felt alarmingly dull compared to other models, requiring a great deal of force to grate a crunchy food like a carrot. As with any box grater, the blades will inevitably dull over time, but this one is inexpensive and easy to replace. A generous, well-contoured handle over the top means that cooks with hands of any size can comfortably grip it as they work. ![]() The rubber trim around its base holds the grater safely in place on a cutting board. While its focus is the coarse grating function, the Cuisinart can be used as a satisfactory rasp for citrus zest and hard cheese. With most of the box graters that I tested, the fine, medium, and slicing sections seemed like afterthoughts. It’s also the most versatile grater I tried. Its blades are as sharp as the most expensive box graters on the market, gracefully shredding both carrots and cheese into uniform strands that have just the right body: The cheese isn’t so thin and feathery that it clumps together, nor are the potatoes and carrots so thick that they could pass as matchsticks. What the Cuisinart Boxed Grater lacks in bells and whistles it more than makes up for in performance.
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