Home cooks have stocked their kitchen drawers with Microplane graters and zesters for 30 years. These sharp, dependable tools come in a variety of shapes and sizes — rasps, paddle-style, rotary, box ...

Like most things in life, nothing is perfect. But if there's any cooking tool that comes close, it's the Microplane. A long, thin metal grater dotted with small, sharp-edged teeth, it can be used to ...

I can grate Parmigiano Reggiano and other hard cheeses on my trusty, easy-to-clean microplane until the cows come home. But there’s a reason I prefer to buy soft cheeses like mozzarella pre-shredded: ...