Chef'nSpring Loaded Rotary Cheese Grater, White

I hate the sharpness of Parmesan graters. Ruined a meal once when a friend grated her finger! This makes it so easy and quick. It’s brilliant!

This grater has been a little disappointing - mainly because of its limitations. The biggest one is that it comes with one cutting "drum" which delivers a very fine grate, suitable for using for cheese such as Parmesan on a pasta dish, but not really for a more substantial size of grated cheese, like the kind of cheddar you'd want on a baked potato or sandwich. My other niggles are that the receptacle for the cheese is really quite small, so you have to cut pieces of cheese to size to use the grater, needing to use other utensils that you wouldn't really need to if you were using a conventional cheese grater. Also the plastic feels a little flimsy and it pops and creaks a little as you grate, making you feel as if it isn't going to last as long as you'd hope.On the plus size, it grates Parmesan well, it's dishwasher friendly and comes apart in a few easy pieces, simple to disassemble and rebuild. Quite honestly, though, I don't think I could recommend it when it has such limited use and doesn't particularly make a fairly easy job that much easier. The ease of use for somebody who finds a conventional block grater difficult may be one of its plus points, but even then I believe there are better models on the market than this one.

My mum used to have an old mouli rater when I was a kid, but I've never been able to find one which did the job so neatly. This improves on the design in some ways: it's spring-loaded, so you insert the piece of cheese and then as you turn the handle, the spring presses it towards the blades rather than you having to push or hold the cheese in place.It delivers finely-grated cheese - ideal when you want to make a sandwich or sprinkle some parmesan (it handles hard cheeses well) onto your minestrone. However, it's not so grate (excuse the pun) if what you want is coarser result for something like a baked potato.It comes apart easily for cleaning and is dishwasher-safe, although I found the handle part (containing the spring) a little difficult to get really clean either in the dishwasher or by hand-washing. The grater drum and the rest of the assembly clean easily. Because of this, and because it really is an expensive item for what it is, I'm knocking off a star.

I had high hopes of this, the grater drum is excellent and the handle turns well, but the feed system using a hollow handle is just awful. Unless you are trying to grate a hard non bitty cheese, bits fall off into the handle and theres no way of opening it to get them out, so they stay in there getting stuck on the metal spring. Not hygeinic. The capacity is also really small, out of proportion with the drum size, so you're opening it all the time to put a bit more cheese in. Messy and slower than a mandolin grater. In addition you cant put the drum in the dishwasher.

This is an ideal grater for Parmesan on pasta dishes. You put cheese in the handle and the spring-loaded plunger pushes it against the grater which rotates as you turn the handle.It’s quite pricey in fairness but is well-designed, and much more satisfying than manually grating on a grater. You won’t take the skin off your fingers!Whether it’s worth it to you will be defined by how often you have pasta or pizza requiring grated cheese, but I honestly cannot fault the design.

A little bigger than I expected, this Spring Loaded Rotary Cheese Grater is pretty easy to disassemble to clean and will take a reasonable amount of cheese. Being spring loaded, the idea is that you simply have to hold the grater body in one hand and turn the handle with the other.I first tried it with a small block of fresh Parmesan, and it worked fine ... leaving only the finest sliver un-grated.All good so far ... my major con is that the body of the grater is quite big ... my wife found it uncomfortable to grip, and even with my big man hands was glad when the task was done. It is a little easier with cheddar.A big plus is that you can have a bit more precision about how much, and where you grate (a bit less mess), but wonder if it will get more use than our traditional graters.I think it is also expensive at £28 with P&P.

Very easy to clean and very easy to use, just can’t put much cheese in it at a time. I felt like it’s designed to add fresh grated cheese to the top of a dish. If you need a significant amount of cheese it’s a bit more awkward as you’d have to keep cutting up small blocks of cheese.

It is a big tool to use though. It is easy to take apart to clean, twist the top off to release the grater part and pinch the side locks to remove the cheese holder.It easily grated a block of cheddar, the softer the type of cheese the better it works. Obviously if the cheeses is too soft it won't work.Have to say though as well, it is quite expensive for what it is. I know you can get standard graters that are cheaper that do more functions than this.

I really wanted to love this grater, it is so innovative. However, there is a serious design flaw, and the plastic handle just can't grip the metal tube that rotates to grate the cheese. I can not recommend this product.

The grater head kept detaching from it's frame. Eventually, I figured out that if I had one hand holding the head and the other using the handle, I could grate the cheese. Obviously designed badly. It did an adaquate job of grating some parmesan while I kept the head on but I kept having to adjust the cheese pieces inside and pushing the head back in. I'm debating whether I should keep it as an extra grater if needed or just throw it out as it's so much trouble to use. Considering I got it for free for my review, that tells you I'm not even sure it's worth the room it takes to store it. Buy something else.

This style of cheese grater has come on a long way since I last owned one. Robust, and smooth to turn the handle it gives a fine shredding of the cheese. the block of cheese sits inside the handle awhere there is a pusher that automatically pushes the chest through as you wind it- no more juggling these pushing and winding like in the old style. I did find the pressing in of the 'buttons' to release this chamber difficult and awkward- you need strong fingers and bigger hands than I have (I do have arthritis in my fingers so that might be a factor to take into count) That said the grater is otherwise easy to use and all the parts click in and out for washing. One slight problem s you cannot see when the block of these runs out as it is hidden in the handle. Overall I think this was a great product.

The only thing which prevented me from giving this five stars is that we have a little grater which is much simpler. We have used it for fresh parmesean at the table for years. While this is better than the other rotary graters I have, it is still a bit awkward for table use and a good deal more complicated than the one I bought years ago. Unfortunately ours has been broken recently, and I have been unable to find another. I have been through several rotary graters trying to replace it.Having searched here again tonight in hopes that Amazon carried one, I did see the others I have. The first we purchased was a stainless version which is similar but has the crank on the handle and the handle clamps on the cheese. That is the worst of the lot, despite being stainless. The hinge is awkward and the cheese often falls out. I also have the Zyliss version in plastic. It is a bit better but the same mechanism. In addition we have Kuhn Rapon's ratcheting grater which is a lot of fun but a bit too big and messy for table use. Chef'n has solved one of the problems by putting the cheese in a chute at the bottom. The tool is sturdy and works well, but it is fairly large and awkward for table use. (Where do you put it so it doesn't drop stray bits of cheese). For kitchen use it is great though and in my opinion the best of the lot, at least in terms of rotary graters.

This has a great concept that I love, but the execution isn't perfect yet. You put a block of cheese in the handle, and the spring inside holds it against the grater bits. The metal grater bits are very sharp. You can take this apart for relatively easy cleaning.The problem is that there is the outer metal part and an inner metal part. I think the inner part is supposed to twist in a little, but the twisting bit is really subtle. You push it in, twist it like half a degree, and it will click in. If you don't get it to click in, and the instructions don't mention this, the inner metal part will pop out, and you can't grate anything. I read a different review where the reviewer said that they had to hold their thumb against the insert part to keep it from falling out. Yeah, we did that at first too, and then accidentally noticed you can twist it in.When it's grating and not falling apart, this works great. The fact that the instructions didn't explain how to keep it together when it's not intuitive was an issue, and the fact that the thing holding it together is actually pretty small and can work itself loose is a bit of a design flaw.So a solid 3 stars. It's good when you figure it out. BUT this would be 5 stars if the twisty part was a little longer and better marked.