to think that people who buy ready-grated and ready-sliced cheese from the supermarket are nuts?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I mean why would you bother. (Normal exceptions apply - people with disabilities etc who can't grate cheese).

How hard is it to grate cheese? Plus that ready grated stuff must be as dry as a bone.

Plus ready sliced cheese. Why would you now just slice your own cheese? What use are those slices anyway, they are thicker than a pound coin, you would choke on sandwiches made of that.

So expensive as well.

i hate grating chhese

Rhubarb

JackBauer - yes I remember hating all the food prep with a passion.

I had to grate allthe cucumbers as well with one of those Japanese mandolin things. Amazed I have got any fingers left. Also had to butter all the loaves of fricking bread. And make the egg mayonnaise and the bloody coleslaw.

All for a pound an hour. A pahnd! All through the summer holidays

Getorfmyland - many many many more moons ago I did the same in the summer holidays for a friend of my mothers. For 12 pahnd A WEEK!!!! That's '2' pahnd a day - and that often incleuded working at fuctions til 10pm. I think I may have issues. In fact, that's probably why I have an aversion to cheese. And sausages on sticks.

LadyGlencoraPalliser it is cheaper, like-for-like

At Tesco:

Tesco Medium Cheddar 500g £3.37
Tesco Medium Grated Cheddar 500g £2.80
Like for like it is cheaper.

Admittedly there are cheaper cheeses there, such as 1kg Mature Cheddar for £5 (quite a lot of cheese though) but it's not the same product.

I hate grating cheese, but i buy a huge block once a month and then grate it in my food processor.
(said food processor was £13 from tesco in the sale last year and is a nice one)

Simply tip into freezer bags in portions and shove in freezer.

Do none of you moaning about grating the stuff have a food processor with a grater blade in it?

I don't see the problem with it. I don't buy grated cheddar,but I will buy grated mozzarella occasionally.

I am rather puzzled by ready chopped onions though.

If it is cheaper, then surely that's because it must be inferior cheese? (i.e there is logically more cost involved in prepapring it). I would never buy anything already sliced, grated or otherwise prepared because it generally interferes with the taste.

I don't buy grated as I too hate the anti-caking agent(cornflour?) that they coat it in.

Sometimes buy emmental or yarlsburg in slices for sandwiches, but am on WW and find I can easily neck a pound of cheese if I am responsible for slicing my own so it is more a portion control issue.

Rhubarb

Priceless

PP - I can sympathise with that, every now and again I weigh the amount of cheese I am planning on shoving in a sandwich and am usually horrified by how much it is.

Sassybeast - 2 pahnd a day, you was robbed son

Can't be bothered to I haven't read the whole thread, but do buy ready sliced cheese to go with bread roll/baguettes when having impromptu picnics.

I buy it when its on offer and works out cheaper than a block so yes yabu

I buy it sometimes; only 2 of the 4 of us are not allergic (well severe intolerance to be exact) to cheese so it's easiest to just buy what I need that way

Oh and my grater is shit, so though I know tis odd, DH sees grated cheese as food = fine, and grater as tool = oh no its stuff she wants for baking again tio clog the house alarm! alarm!

2 of 6 of us

have not lost 2 along the way

I buy it sometimes, like today for e.g.

DH has his little finger and the finger next to it missing so can't quite get his hands round the grater.

I always grate massive chunks of my knuckles off.

I buy a mixture of both.

I buy grated mozzarella for pizzas because, as another poster asserted, how the hell do you slice mozzarella? Sometimes I'll buy other varities if they're on offer, but it's awfully messy and dries out. Plus it encourages me to binge snack on cheese out the fridge, I can't be arsed if it's wrapped up in a block.

What really irks me from a laziness perspective though are those Aerial liquitabs and the like... can people honestly not dispense their own laundry detergent?!

I sometimes buy sliced Emmental or Jarlsberg.

But that is so I can eat it in the car on the way home from the supermarket.

gagamama - but if you get a yearning for cheese, don't you find that you find yourself just taking a bite out of the block of cheese? And then when you obviously can't out a piece of cheese with bitemarks back in the fridge you have to cut it off properly and eat the balance to draw a line under the whole sorry episode? Or is it just me? Actually, in this respect having ready grated stuff would negate this problem as I would just eat a crammed handful at a time.

I don't use liquitabs either due to the (a) vaguely sinister magic plastic case - where does it go and (b) I am tight with laundry detergent and like to measure out my own thrifty measurements.

I didn't know the deli counter would grate your cheese for you. I also didn't know that a food processor could grate cheese. And I hate grating cheese with a passion. The things you learn on the internet.

Shiney - nah, I don't care really, I am just being mumsnetty judgey

I buy ice all the same because I will not be subject to the tyranny of ice cube trays. Likewise prepared mango and melon. Nothing would induce me to chop up mango and melon.

I am a lazy cow and i am being unreasonable to judge on others laziness