Microplane
Brand of grater
Microplane is a registered trademark of Grace Manufacturing Inc., a company that makes photo etched steel tools (surform tools) for grating, grinding and sanding. It was created by brothers Richard & Jeff Grace in the mid-1990s. The Grace brothers set out to make a wood-carving rasp and ended up with a new invention, which in 1991 would come to be called Microplane.
01Kitchen graters
Microplane graters are used for the grating of various food items, such as nutmeg and cheese, and also as zesters for citrus fruit.
02Wood rasps
Microplane originally made wood rasps and shaving disks, and they still do.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Micro Plane.jpg by Donovan Govan., CC BY-SA 3.0
- Zester.jpg by tokyofoodcast.com, CC BY 2.0
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