Lemon Zester & Cheese Grater – Premium Stainless Steel - A Sharp Kitchen Tool for Cheese Grater, Ginger, Garlic, Nutmeg, Chocolate, Vegetables, Fruits, Dishwasher Safe, Black B

Until I started using one, I did not know how important owning an actual zester is. You simply cannot get the same type of cut or flavor trying to "zest" fruit using a knife or regular grater. This zester is a great size. It is long enough where you can even place it over a bowl and zest directly into the bowl. It comes with an easy on/easy off cover that protects the blades. The blades are sharp and it is easy to use. Great value and great product.

This grater/zester is just what I needed for the kitchen! It works perfectly, pieces don’t get stuck in it, it peels smoothly, made from a nice quality metal and it looks pretty fancy. It is sharp enough to zest or shred quickly and with ease but without having to worry about personal injury while using it is very safe. It doesn’t slid while using it thanks to the grip at the end of it.

I have always wanted a zester like this and I was trying a new recipe that required the zest of 4 lemons. I was able to zest the lemons and wash up the tool in less than 5 minutes. I felt much safer while using it because it is long and I could place the rubber foot down on a plate while I zested. The zested product came off as very thin ribbons and there was no pith. When I washed the zester by hand, I was very careful to wash with the grain so that I would not get cut. I washed it immediately so I did not need the brush that comes with it. It also comes with a cover that snaps on and off with ease. Great purchase!05/12/22 Update. I have had this product for about 3-1/2 years now and I just love it. There is no rust. It still looks pristine. Note that I wash it by hand which is very easy.

This zester has been a lot of fun using in my cooking. I love fresh grated hard cheeses and was getting tired of constantly having to get my big food processor out to grate cheese when all I sometimes need is a few tablespoons. The ease of using this zester not only saves me time in creating delicious meals in prep, but also in clean up. The design is perfect for all my needs. I have zested several different things, oranges, lemons, limes, ginger, garlic, and of course cheese. I love the fine shavings I get using this zester. And the clean up is a breeze. It's nice and sharp so you don't have to press hard at all. My family especially loves spaghetti night now, because I can shred a fine dusting of parmesan onto their plates right in front of them just like they do at fancy restaurants. The length is perfect, it's sturdy and lightweight, a great kitchen tool. This would make a fantastic gift for anyone who likes to cook!

It's a good size and gets a lot of the zest without waste.

I place this over a bowl and zest it stays in place and zests perfectly. Much better than the cheese grater I was using.

I’ve only recently gotten back into baking, or somewhat more elaborate cooking too, for that matter, after thinking that I’d ‘used those cooking motivation cells up’ during all of those years of raising kids, cooking for our sit-down-together-every-night dinners after full days of outside the home work. My now grown kids would brag to my still new hubby about my ‘wonderful’ cooking and baking and he’d assumed that he’d ‘missed the boat’ (likely because I told him that!)….but a combination of pandemic lockdown and feeling kitchen creative again found me in my kitchen, even reading new recipes again! That’s when I discovered a few things that although NOT new to most moderately OK home cooks/chefs, they were to me…one of which is the JOY of using citrus zest in my recipes! Which brings me to THIS WONDERFUL ZESTER! Not only is it a great size, makes it easy to hold over the bowl without spilling all over the counter, but it only needs moderate pressure and you get a LOT of feather light zest! No kidding- I zested 2-1/2 lemons using my old 1-sided flat grater (thinking I didn’t need a special one JUST for the few times that I might start adding zest into my recipes now) for the amount listed in one of my favorite new recipes; after receiving THIS tool I used just ONE(1) lemon for the same amount of zest (2T, if you’re curious)! Even accounting for any small size differential in my lemons, it was wild! Plus, my hands and fingers did NOT hurt, I never even came close to grating my fingers, and it was a breeze to clean; just ran it under hot water to get out/off the majority of what I couldn’t scrape into my mixing bowl (and didn’t need) and then took less than a minute with dishwashing soap and brush! I could have put it into the dishwasher but I prefer to hand wash most of my tools. Bottom line: this simple cooking tool is WELL WORTH its very reasonable cost and it stores easily in my standard depth kitchen drawer where I keep most of my tools! If you’re hesitating because you’re not sure that you REALLY need this, just be nice to yourself and hit the order button. You might even start putting lemon, lime or orange zest in all sorts of recipes, easily giving your old dish a new ‘pop’ of flavor!

Bonus feature is that it rests on little frame so you can grate on to a plate with it flat. Also like the plastic protector, protects your fingers and anything you don’t want it to mar!