When grating cheese or vegetables with a box grater, wear a clean dish washing glove. It keeps knuckles from being scraped, if you get too close to the grater. It also helps keep a grip on the food being grated. When finished, just rinse the gloves on hang to dry.
By Monica from Cortez, CO
I used to hate cleaning the grater when I was little. Well, before grating anything, make sure the food is hard or frozen.
Many kitchen tools can be put to multiple uses. This is a page about other uses for a cheese grater.
This is a page about cleaning a cheese grater. Cheese graters are really handy for shredding and grating cheeses. The cheese can be sticky and difficult clean off after you are done sing it though.