Customer Reviews

MIU Stainless-Steel Rotary Cheese Grater

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

At first I was pretty happy with the grater, but after a few days of use I started to notice that I was getting small shavings of metal as well as shredded cheese. I am no longer using it and would not recomend it to anyone.

This grater really does not work as advertised. Harder cheeses take forever to grind and soft ones get stuck in the grating tube. Try a different grater - this one ain't work the 20 bucks.

Well, I'm not terribly impressed with this metal rotary grater. Yes, it will grate cheese, but the gap between the drum and compartment that holds the cheese is a little over 1/4 of an inch. This allows for the cheese to get 'gummed' up and eventually that large wad just falls through. Also, for harder cheeses this means you're constanty picking out chunks of cheese that should have been grated.

I've yet to find a rotary grater I'm happy with. I've broken several plastic models within 2 days of owning them. While I've yet to break this metal model, it just doesn't perfrom very well. I'm still using my stand-up grater.

I bought this to replace my old Mouli grater which finally bit the dust. Big mistake. It is sturdy and reasonably well designed, but the grating surfaces barely work at all, or at least mine didn't. To get it to grate cheese takes a long time and a lot of muscle, so much so that you are likely to start wondering how badly you really want the grated cheese. I tried the grater drum on reasonably fresh Parmesan and later tried the shredder drum on Jarlsberg. Neither drum worked satisfactorily. That may be because it is made in China where hard western-style cheese is nearly unknown. Yeah I know it says MIU France but the box clearly says "Made in China". I finally got so mad I threw it out in frustration.

This grater has one major problem. It oozes cheese out of the base while you grate. Easy to clean, but I am going back to my box grater.

I got this to replace an original made-in-France circa 1988 metal Moulinex mouli-grater when I lost my favorite blade, the one with the biggest holes, meant for grating soft cheese such as cheddar or jack.

This was the only all-metal rotary grater I could find with that size blade. The others all had the smaller-holed blade (meant for hard cheeses such as romano, locatelli and parmesan) and, sometimes, the slot-slicing blade.

However, there is no comparison between this and my old mouli. This one doesn't work on soft cheese, rendering it a pulpy mess, perhaps because the blades are not sharp enough -- and it does not work on hard cheese, which just gets stuck or goes 'round and 'round, again perhaps the blades are not sharp enough or hard enough to cut it. The ergonomics are terrible, and it is impossible to get sufficient leverage, especially if you have slender hands. The gratuitous latching mechanism on this (absent on the Moulinex) is more a hindrance than a help, as it does not in the least increase leverage but is a nuisance to open and close.

Overall, this was a huge disappointment and big waste of money.

If I hadn't experienced the old Moulinex for a comparison, I would think that all rotary graters had such drawbacks, but that is simply not true. Unfortunately, it seems that the Moulinex mouli-graters are no longer being made, or at least not in metal, or at least not being imported into the U.S.

Even at 20 years old, my mouli still grates circles around this thing when it comes to hard cheese. As for soft cheese, I'm back to a flat-sided box grater.

And meanwhile, I'll just keep an eye on eBay for an authentic old French-made Moulinex with a big-holed blade.

Prouct requires a anti-slip grip. When applying pressure to grate a hard cheese the product does an inferior grate and hurts the hand due to amount of hand pressure required to grate cheese.

The grater worked awful. It grates very slow and difficult to manage. I would not recommend this product at all.

Not the easiest thing in the world to clean, and I don't like how it grates. In the end, I think I'd have been much happier with a plastic grater... the type they use in most restaurants like olive garden, etc. This one doesn't do too well with harder cheeses. I got the metal one so that it wouldn't start smelling of cheese, but really, that's all that I will use it for, since i don't trust it with hard chocholate.

It works, I've had better. At least it's stainless steel and it won't fall apart like a plastic one does.