Customer Reviews

Microplane 40016 Classic Black Spice Grater

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This is a fantastic tool. It grates nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and other hard spices with ease, and without the risk of scraping your knuckles either. It's dishwasher safe and small enough to not take up valuable kitchen space. The drawback to this gadget for me is the fact that its usefulness is limited. In my opinion, it's much too small to grate cheeses, citrus zests, chocolate etc, so I have a separate microplane to tackle those jobs. Nonetheless, it's a welcome addition to my kitchen and I'm sure it would be to yours.

I love this grater. It really shows nutmeg who's the boss. However, don't get over-confident and think you can use this for cinnamon. Cinnamon has to be ground professionally. I would also recommend using a larger model for ginger, if you have one.

Easy clean up, I just toss mine in the dishwasher.

I hesitated for a long time before I bought one of these. I mean, really - a grater is just a grater, right? Wrong! This thing is worlds better than the standard graters I'd been using all my life. It makes grating hard cheeses (i.e., parmesan) and spices (i.e., nutmeg) so much easier it's truly amazing. I love this thing and find more uses for it all the time. A quick rinse under running water is all it needs for most cleanup. And, it's much harder to grate your own fingers with this than the old box-grater. Highly recommended!

This handy little gadget will not only save time but will also save your finger tips from certain injury! A spice grater is a must for those who cook with nutmeg, cinnamom sticks, and even pepper corns. Though a coffee mill may seem an east way to grind these often you need a more controlled grate as opposed to pulverizing the spices. This is where this gadget works best. The handle is also excellent and easy to grip which is important as this is certainly small work. In the end just throw it in your dishwasher and the work is done simply and easily!

I use same type of tool for woodworking. Easily grates whole nutmeg to a nice consistency.

we should have had this years ago as it would have saved me getting cut fingers!!! I love it, easy to use and your fingers never touch the surface of the microplane, nutmeg glides over it and its perfect!!i would highly recommend this to anyone who grates their own spices.

I bought the spice grater and the fine one, both products are amazing. My next step is to buy the coarse one. Like a chef i really enjoy using those.

This is a high quality product and it stands up to anything I throw at it including cinnamon sticks. My only complaint is that I bought it specifically to freshly grate cinnamon into coffee and it's not quite fine enough to get the cinnamon to dissolve. Cinnamon is a very hard spice, so it's not really a fault of the grater, but just know that it has that limitation. It's the finest grater I could find on Amazon though, so it's not like there's anything here that can do it.

I absolutley love this thing. I love using fresh grated nutmeg or cinnamon and this makes is so easy to do. LOVE IT.

I have the larger microplanes but his one comes in handy for nutmeg etc. I keep it on the rack with my spices so ready to use where the other larger ones hang in the pantry.