Signs of the apocalypse
Have you seen the ads for the Gizmo grater on TV recently? This thing looks like an ordinary box grater. But it oscillates up and down, so instead of moving the cheese up and down over the grater blades, you hold the cheese in place and the blade moves for you. So the slight motion of moving the cheese has been replaced by holding the cheese perfectly still.
Oh my sweet lord.
you seriously underestimate the difficulty of cheese.
Hey, I know cheese. I went to college with cheese. Cheese is a friend of mine. And you, sir, are no……….wait a minute. I was channeling Lloyd Bentsen there for a second. Sorry. 🙂
The machine itself isn’t so scary as the thought that someone might actually buy it, when you can get the exact same functionality out of a food processor with the correct attachment.
Of course, now that I’ve actually RTFA, it’s ludicrously overpriced, but if it were 1/4th the price it would almost be worth it for being able to make your own lemon/lime/orange/whatever zest without the bloody knuckles. A lot of confection-type recipes call for zest and it’s a pain in the ass to make.
Mark: Have you tried a microplane grater? It’s sometimes also called a rasp. I have one and I love it for stuff like zesting an orange. Now that’s a good invention.
It actually came from a woman whose husband was a carpenter, who appropriated one of his tools to zest a lemon. The rest, as they say, is history.
Oops – sorry. It was an orange.