You know the graters with four sides, well...

[Tinker]

...what is the horrible looks like it would rip your knuckles off side for?

carrots?

potatoes?

I use it for bread crumbs, not sure if that's its official job.

Do you mean the one that looks like metal cellulite?

Yes, metal cellulite. Bread crumbs makes sense. Not sure for potatoes - it doesn't grate.

i use it for orange or lemon 'zest'

Grating nutmeg?

But isn't the little fine grater side for zest? Ditto nutmeg?

Ladies, ladies, please. ITS A ZESTER.

potatoes indeed

no, fine side grater is for cheese

big hole grater is for veg

I use it for zest

I paid a lot of money to learn that on a Pue Leith cookery course many years ago (when I had money to burn) so it must be right.

I do cheese on fine and big grater side - fine side for my 12 month old. Have separate zester.

(doesn't work very well for zesting though)

Pue Leith? Should that be Poo or Pooh Leith?

spotted that after I'd posted but I rather liked the look of it myself. Like Pooh, only posher.

sorry I thought you meant the other side

you mean the slicy side?

Zest, or it makes quite a good pulper for baby food.

Did Poo Leith refer to it as "the slicy side"?

Of course! That is the technically correct name for it, and , ahem, the name is Pue not Poo pronounced more like pew...

slicey side? is that the curved slots about 5 cm across? - I never use that - I hand slice veg

the side with round holes about 0.5 cm across I use for grating chedder type cheese or apple.

the side with holes about 0.2cm across I use for paremesan

the side with the mini volcanoes or barnacles on it |I use for zesting - although I prefer to use my zester which gets the zest off in long pieces

Isn't it for that really hard skin on your heels from wearing shoes which are too high ?

HUB!