50 People Try To Grate Cheese

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[laughs] It's cheddar.

[upbeat music]

God I love cheese so much.

I would marry it if I wasn't already married.

Okay this is a um...

It has different shapes.

Does that mean the cheese comes out in different shapes?

But how do I [bang], oh that's good.

First things first, we match.

We match today.

There are so many different graters here.

What on earth [laughs]?

What is this?

I think you close this, grate it, and it stays inside.

Ooh, look a mousetrap [bang].

Yup, no.

I don't know how to use that.

Wait, I think I got this.

No.

I guess this is the taco strip one, oh.

[breathing heavy]

This is a workout.

I don't have to clean this afterwards do I?

Oh no.

No, what about the other way?

Yes!

They should put arrows on these things.

Clockwise is grating cheese.

Counterclockwise is counterproductive.

Ooh, that's grating very nicely.

Little highways in the cheese.

I feel good about this one.

Yup, keep getting those damn nails.

All right, no one eat this cheese.

That would be really gross right

if you were at a party and someone threw confetti

and it was just cheese?

Unless it was like an Italian restaurant

otherwise that'd be pretty cool.

[rubber rubbing]

There you go.

Look I gotta smile so it must be happy cheese.

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Garnish this giant pile of cheese

with a smaller pile of cheese.

Hairs like a mermaid.

Well?

And I grated cheese.

Cheese.

Maybe I know how to do this one [laughs].

Take a block of cheese in one hand,

take a grater in the other and you just have at it.

I'm gonna go with the good old classic right here.

You're gonna put it on the plate

that way you don't lose any of your precious queso.

Push the block of cheese down.

You wanna take your time.

Young kids nowadays they don't got patience.

I'm getting do the chunky bit cause I like chunky cheese.

Grating cheese is a husband job.

That's a lot of cheese [laughs].

How many people am I feeding with this cheese?

It's game time, you're a mom of five.

You have mac and cheese you need to put on the table.

What are you gonna do?

I'm taking this very seriously.

I don't know, you can think about things.

Your exes face.

Are you guys ready for cheese?

Hopefully I won't cut myself again

like when I was nine [laughs].

And then I never helped my mom in the kitchen again.

Ow.

[Man] Did you do it?

I need to get one of these at home.

This reminds me of the days of Play-doh

when you would grate it like spaghetti.

There's what I call the giving up point.

When you get down to this part you just--

Eat it.

That's good.

If you flatten out your hand

it'll be a little easier to get that last bit.

I deserve this piece of cheese.

Yay.

Ta-da.

It's so grated, look at that.

Weee!

Wonderful.

[Group] Grated cheese.

Okay.

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We're gonna great cheese here.

We're using that block of cheddar cheese

and the type of cheese is really gonna help determine

what tool you're going to use for the job.

Cheddar cheese is a semi-firm cheese

meaning that it's not rock hard like Parmesan,

but it's also not soft like Brie or cream cheese

or something like that.

We're gonna use the larger holes on a box grater.

So I'm just gonna place my box grater on the plate.

And then I always like to go downward at an angle

because I'm able to get a larger amount of cheddar

with each swipe over the box grater.

If I come straightaway the chatter tends to crumble

on the outside of the box grater

as opposed to coming through

and making nice even long strips

of my grated cheddar cheese.

This is a pretty popular tool that we see, the zester.

And it is a great tool for grating cheese.

We would reserve this for something like a Parmesan

or a Pecorino or something like that.

Grated cheese is primarily used for the purpose

of melting the cheese.

By increasing the amount of surface area that we have

on each individual piece of cheese

we're gonna be able to get the surface heat

into that cheese faster so it's gonna melt more evenly.

And this is our grated cheese.

Look what I did.

My first grated cheese.

Making it rain with cheese.