I preferred the clamp method, and did so using the clamp on this Etac board. You can use this one while seated, holding it between your thighs, or just clamp it in place on your counter. There are two effective solutions for keeping the grater steady.

With the 12-in-1 Vegetable Grater from DXFWZQ, it’s super easy to switch the plates, and it comes with many options for general use.

Their plates can be a challenge to swap out, and then comes the issue of keeping them steady while slicing or grating if you’ve only got one hand. It's easy to switch the plates in this 12-in-1 vegetable slicer.īox graters and mandoline slicers can prove tricky for a number of reasons. 12-in-1 Vegetable Grater: A box grater with perks beyond grating If you find yourself struggling to use the pusher at the top to add some pressure to whatever you’re grating, you can apply a bit of pressure to it using your residual limb or shoulder (if your residual limb isn’t capable or long enough). I solved this problem by wedging the entire grater using the clamp on my Etac Deluxe One-Handed Paring Board. I also noticed the suction cup on the G.CHEN Rotary Cheese Grater was giving way while shredding hard cheeses such as the old chunk of Parmesan I found living in the back of my fridge. If you have a dishwasher, all the attachments are dishwasher-friendly. Use your shoulder (or residual limb) to press the handle of a wooden spoon into the rag while you use your functional hand to unscrew or screw in the handle. I did this by tightly stuffing a rag into the cavity. The hardest part is attaching and detaching the attachments from the handle, because you need to stabilize the attachment while screwing on the handle. If you can get someone to help you attach the base to the main body, you can leave those two pieces attached permanently since the body won’t really be getting dirty (except the spout, which you can spot-clean). I found assembly and disassembly of this grater to be tedious, but there are a couple workarounds to mitigate that monotony. I like to place a Tupperware or resealable Pyrex near the spout and grate some extra directly into a receptacle, so I don’t have to reassemble if I need some cheese later on. Simply pop whatever it is you want to slice or grate into the top and turn the handle. It comes with three attachments: coarse shredding blade, fine shredding blade, and slicing blade. The suction cup base makes the G.CHEN Rotary Cheese Grater great for single-handed use. This rotary cheese grater is available in blue and red swatches. G.CHEN Rotary Cheese Grater: affordable, small, and efficient Below, you’ll find the results of my product testing. Many manual graters are physically impossible to use with one hand-unless you find the right ones and combine them with the correct accessories (when needed). Sometimes it just isn’t reasonable to pull out a 25-pound mixer to grate some fresh parmesan for your pasta. KitchenAid mixers and food processors are heavy devices that require lots of assembly and disassembly.

Sure, you can often use the grater attachment on your KitchenAid mixer or food processor if you happen to have one of the two, but I’ve never found that to be the most practical option. Let’s start with grating, because this is easily the biggest cheese-related obstacle I’ve encountered as an amputee. As an above-elbow amputee, I took it upon myself to grate and slice more cheese than I thought possible in an effort to unveil the best products and tips for your one-handed cheese prep needs. But cheese should be blissful, not inaccessible, when it comes to serving, slicing, or preparing it. Having use of only one hand can make many tasks seem daunting. And you shouldn’t be forced into eating the boxed stuff because you’ve got use of just one hand-unless you want to (not judging if that’s you, because I could go for a box of Kraft unicorn macaroni and cheese any day). Why bother altering something as perfect as cheese with a tool as harsh as a grater? You’ve got to put something in your mac and cheese! But if you’re stuck with a grater that requires two hands when you’ve only got one, then you’ll be left with naked noodles, which aren’t nearly as fun.

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