In the technological process of cooking at home, there is such an important operation - rubbing vegetables and other solid foods on a grater. Moreover, the culinary specialist chooses the size of the resulting fraction and performs it. The grater is used almost daily, and it is usually made from a soft ordinary steel grade. And quickly dulls. And the hostess needs a sharp one. And she tells her husband to sharpen the grater. Does he think about how easy it is to sharpen the grater? After all, not all husbands are craftsmen. And this is really easy to do, even any woman can sharpen the grater herself without help.
Read in the article
- 1 What is a vegetable grater
- 2 Sharpening the cutting surface
- 3 Conclusion
What is a vegetable grater
The ordinary homemade vegetable grater is a pyramidal four-sided product with a cut off top. This pyramid has no bottom either. A handle is attached to the top for ease of use. Holes are made on all four faces, each plane has its own diameter - approximately 3, 5, 7 and 9 mm. And below each hole, the metal surface is curved outward. So it turns out that the bottom edge of the hole, it is the upper edge of the curved part of the surface, is a knife for everything that, being pressed against the surface of the grater, will move down. So a piece will be cut off from what went down. And since there are a lot of holes with knives, a whole handful of small pieces will be cut in one pass down. This is how a whole carrot or beet turns into a shredded product.
The size and shape of the shavings is determined by the side of the grater on which the work was carried out.
Graters exist not only manual, but also mechanical, and even with an electric drive. Of course, their performance is much higher. But for a family dinner, a hand grater is also enough.
And the cutting surface of the hand grater needs to be sharpened from time to time. Otherwise, for the hostess, work will turn into torment.
Sharpening the cutting surface
There are many ways to sharpen, and they are all fairly simple. In this case, the simplest method is that you need to rub it with sandpaper several times over the cutting surface. And preferably with pressure when moving the sandpaper "along the wool".
Sharpening with a household tool - ordinary scissors or a kitchen knife with a sharp end - would be slightly better. It is necessary to insert the sharp end of a knife or scissors into the hole of the grater, as shown in the arrow in Fig. 5, and with the sharp part of the blade, turning it right and left, scrape the cutting edge of the grater. At the same time, the convex surface of the cutting tooth can be straightened. The procedure is long, but the result will be quite satisfactory.
Instead of knife blades and scissors, you can use a thin round or semicircular file - a file. This tool is convenient for sharpening small holes on a grater.
And a completely industrial way of sharpening (but this is for lovers of advanced technology) is to insert it into a screwdriver (or into electric drill at low speeds) drill with a diameter slightly larger than the hole in the grater, and with an obtuse end go through all grater knives.
Conclusion
Primitive man got along with a stone ax and his two not very skillful hands. Now people live surrounded by products of science and technology. The equipment requires regular maintenance, otherwise it will not work. Even the simplest household appliances also require maintenance. And such a primitive device as a manual vegetable grater also requires attention. It needs to be sharpened regularly.
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