[banging]
- [laughs] It's cheddar.
[upbeat music]
- God I love cheese so much.
I would marry it if I
wasn't already married.
- Okay this is a um...
- It has different shapes.
Does that mean the cheese
comes out in different shapes?
- But how do I [bang], oh that's good.
- First things first, we match.
- We match today.
- There are so many
different graters here.
- What on earth [laughs]?
- What is this?
- I think you close this,
grate it, and it stays inside.
- Ooh, look a mousetrap [bang].
- Yup, no.
- I don't know how to use that.
- Wait, I think I got this.
No.
- I guess this is the taco strip one, oh.
[breathing heavy]
- This is a workout.
- I don't have to clean
this afterwards do I?
Oh no.
- No, what about the other way?
Yes!
- They should put arrows on these things.
- Clockwise is grating cheese.
Counterclockwise is counterproductive.
- Ooh, that's grating very nicely.
Little highways in the cheese.
- I feel good about this one.
- Yup, keep getting those damn nails.
All right, no one eat this cheese.
- That would be really gross right
if you were at a party
and someone threw confetti
and it was just cheese?
Unless it was like an Italian restaurant
otherwise that'd be pretty cool.
[rubber rubbing]
- There you go.
- Look I gotta smile so
it must be happy cheese.
[banging]
- Garnish this giant pile of cheese
with a smaller pile of cheese.
- Hairs like a mermaid.
- Well?
- And I grated cheese.
- Cheese.
- Maybe I know how to
do this one [laughs].
- Take a block of cheese in one hand,
take a grater in the other
and you just have at it.
- I'm gonna go with the
good old classic right here.
- You're gonna put it on the plate
that way you don't lose
any of your precious queso.
- Push the block of cheese down.
- You wanna take your time.
Young kids nowadays
they don't got patience.
- I'm getting do the chunky
bit cause I like chunky cheese.
- Grating cheese is a husband job.
- That's a lot of cheese [laughs].
- How many people am I
feeding with this cheese?
- It's game time, you're a mom of five.
You have mac and cheese you
need to put on the table.
What are you gonna do?
- I'm taking this very seriously.
- I don't know, you
can think about things.
Your exes face.
- Are you guys ready for cheese?
- Hopefully I won't cut myself again
like when I was nine [laughs].
And then I never helped my
mom in the kitchen again.
Ow.
- [Man] Did you do it?
- I need to get one of these at home.
- This reminds me of the days of Play-doh
when you would grate it like spaghetti.
- There's what I call the giving up point.
- When you get down to
this part you just--
- Eat it.
- That's good.
- If you flatten out your hand
it'll be a little easier
to get that last bit.
- I deserve this piece of cheese.
- Yay.
- Ta-da.
- It's so grated, look at that.
Weee!
- Wonderful.
- [Group] Grated cheese.
- Okay.
[film winding]
- We're gonna great cheese here.
We're using that block of cheddar cheese
and the type of cheese is
really gonna help determine
what tool you're going to use for the job.
Cheddar cheese is a semi-firm cheese
meaning that it's not
rock hard like Parmesan,
but it's also not soft
like Brie or cream cheese
or something like that.
We're gonna use the larger
holes on a box grater.
So I'm just gonna place my
box grater on the plate.
And then I always like to
go downward at an angle
because I'm able to get a
larger amount of cheddar
with each swipe over the box grater.
If I come straightaway the
chatter tends to crumble
on the outside of the box grater
as opposed to coming through
and making nice even long strips
of my grated cheddar cheese.
This is a pretty popular
tool that we see, the zester.
And it is a great tool for grating cheese.
We would reserve this for
something like a Parmesan
or a Pecorino or something like that.
Grated cheese is primarily
used for the purpose
of melting the cheese.
By increasing the amount of
surface area that we have
on each individual piece of cheese
we're gonna be able to
get the surface heat
into that cheese faster so
it's gonna melt more evenly.
And this is our grated cheese.
- Look what I did.
- My first grated cheese.
- Making it rain with cheese.
