The Stainless-Steel Rasp enhanced flavor, freshly grated cheese has more with featherlike shavings of cheese, but the mere impact than off-the-shelf grated cheese. But no lightness of shavings usually resulted in some of and Zester Holder cheese grater can match this zester as far as the them falling on the table rather than on the plate. magic surface area-to-mass ratio is concerned. With the holder, all of the cheese shavings collect This is because the zester creates tiny curly slices in the holder and then can be distributed on the rather than tearing off small chunks. You will find pasta in a more controlled manner. The same is that you can reduce cheese consumption by more true with hard spices and nuts. than 50% and still get sharper flavor than you got by any other means. Whether you bought this rasp or received it as a gift, you now have one of the most effective The Stainless-Steel Zester Holder kitchen tools ever made. If you find uses for it in addition to the ones we mentioned, we would like t is often very difficult to improve on a to hear from you. The Stainless-Steel Rasp good thing and the wood rasp-cum-zester is his rasp, which started life as a lowly Icertainly a good thing. Various users have Care and Maintenance wood rasp, has been the subject of several suggested different shapes for the zester and the original manufacturer came out with a specialty he rasp and holder are made from tempered Tnewspaper articles and is enthusiastically stainless steel; they won’t rust. They are praised by leading chefs. food version in varying degrees of coarseness of cut, but nothing ever seemed to improve upon the Teasily cleaned; a quick rinse under the tap Fame in the food original product until one of the users (who also clears them completely. The rasp’s sharp teeth world came about happened to be an industrial designer) suggested and fast and almost effortless grating action make as a result of that we make an open-ended stainless-steel box it far superior to other graters on the market. Lorraine Lee’s* to fit under the zester. He felt that this would Dishwasher safe. discovery (during the make the zester easier to hold and could also be a * Lorraine Lee is the co-founder of Lee Valley Tools Ltd. process of making container when zesting things like hard cheese or an Armenian orange nuts. As a result, we made just such a box, adding cake) that her husband’s a few little changes like belling the walls near favorite wood rasp would zest oranges. the bottom so that the box would be a protective This quickly led to other uses such as zesting case for the zester (when not in use), and adding lemons (naturally!), grating ginger and cinnamon, a nib in the top of the reducing a clove of garlic into near liquid in box so that the hole at seconds, and slicing all kinds of nuts into tiny, the end of the zester thin slivers. The rasp can be held or set across could be used to keep the top of a pot or a bowl to grate garlic or lemon it secure atop the box. rinds directly into a dish. Once again, this great But probably the single most remarkable use combination proved turned out to be grating hard cheeses for pasta. to be at the apex of its As with so many foods, it is not the amount of utility when used with cheese that gives you greatest flavor impact, hard cheese. Before it is the amount of surface area in contact with the zester holder was your tongue. developed, it was easy enough to hold This zester slices hard cheese into gossamer- the zester over a plate thin shavings that pack a lot of flavor into very of pasta and shower it Lee Valley Tools Ltd. Ottawa ON K2H 1C2 Canada leevalley.com little cheese. Just as freshly ground pepper has © Lee Valley Tools Ltd. 2018 27W02.07_C