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Stainless Steel Box Grater
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Stainless Steel Box Grater

A box-style grater gives you a choice of hole sizes. Use the smaller holes for grating hard cheese or chocolate and the largest holes for shredding foods like Cheddar cheese or carrots.

From the All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook, Oxmoor House

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