If you have a foodie on your list, or just someone like me who lives snazzy kitchen items that help save time and make me look fancy, check out these four “grate” gift ideas from Microplane!
Clockwise:
1) Herb & Salad Chopper – Easily and efficiently chop fresh or dried herbs. Also used to mince onions, garlic, chocolate and nuts. Retractable blade for convenient and safe storage. SRP – $17.95
2) Cube Grater – offers home chefs a compact and vertatile tool for food prep. Features the fine, ribbon and coarse blade styles. Also includes a durable, transparent cover that doubles as a catch feature with 11/2 cup/350ml capacity and measurement marks on 3 sides. Comes in black, red and green. SRP – $19.95
3) Elite Zester – catches, measures and covers – a transparent cover that, when placed underneath the grater, doubles as a grating catch and measure feature. The dual-purpose cover has a 10 tsp capacity and also features a rubber swiper to remove zest and other gratings from the back of the blade. SRP – $19.95
4) Spiral Cutter – Create elegant spiral cuts and ribbons out of fresh vegetables such as zucchini, carrots, cucumber and radishes. Two razor sharp slicing barrels – one large and one small. Features surgical grade stainless blades for optimal cutting results. SRP – $14.95
Of these four suggestions from Microplane, the Herb & Salad Chopper is my favorite and most used item (though the Elite Zester is really handy too!) I love how easy it is to chop cilantro for salsa and nuts for banana bread. The design enables you to fold away the blade making for easy and safe storage. This is one of those items that gets eyed up by dinner guests because it’s so functional.
Use the Find a Store page on Microplane.com to find a store near you that carries Microplane for gift-giving (and kitchen happiness!) this holiday season! Locally, you can find Microplane at London Drugs and Kitchen Gear stores.
One of our readers is going to win their choice of the 4 Microplane gift ideas shared above. To enter to win, just tell us which one you’d choose!
I would love the Spiral Cutter because I could make veggie *noodles* with it!
The spiral cutter, so I can be fancy.
I would choose the microplane Zester. I’ve just started putting peel in things and I’d like one.
That would be a tough choice, maybe the Spiral Cutter
I’ve been trying to come up with stocking stuffer ideas and I think that spiral slicer would be great in my stocking! 🙂
I would definitely pick the Spiral Cutter, it is on my want list!!
I would love a spiral cutter!! They are so cool!
I’d pick the Elite Zester because I need a new zester. Right now i am trying to use the grater I have,but its just not the same.
I would choose the Elite Zester because I need a good zester for making lemon and orange zest for recipes.
Tough to choose, but I think I would go for the Herb & Salad Chopper.
It was between this and the grater, but I have other graters and nothing like this chopper – I use parsley, dill, basil and other herbs from the garden a lot, and it would be nice to cut them up easily and nicely with this tool!
I would like the Spiral Cutter because I think it would be great for salads. I chop carrots, turnip, beets and that would be a nice change.
that spiral cutter is pretty neat
the cube grater – I love that the cover doubles as a bowl!
the spiral cutter because i would love to make veggie ‘noodles’
I am thinking the spiral cutter. This would make wonder vegetarian meals.
I’d choose the Herb and Salad Chopper, I like it’s compact size.
I would choose the cube grater because I love cute cheese graters
I would pick the spiral cutter.
I would choose the Elite Zester because it would help a lot with the prep work . For instance, I love using nutmeg, and garlic in my recipes so this zester would help me cut these up into bits!
I would choose the Elite Zester.
I would choose the spiral cutter as I have heard so much about zucchini noodles and would love to try it as a healthy alternative 🙂
I would pick the Cube Grater because of the cover that doubles as a catch for all your gratings. It’s the perfect size too! I only seen larger graters with a catch/containter and I want a small one like this. Perfect for dinner prep when you don’t have a lot of room.
I have the herb/salad chopper and love it! I would pick the spiral cutter to make veggie noodles.
Would love the spiral cutter!
I love the spiral cutter!!! I could make veggies look fun to eat! lol
I would choose the Cube Grater. I absolutely love that whatever you are grating is in the container. and not all over my counter.
the cube grater
Cube Grater because it’s less messy then the grater we have.
I could find a happy home for every single one of those kitchen tools!! My top pick is the Elite Zester . I’ve been in need of a new zester, but I wanted to look around – turns out they’re not all created equally, and this one looks and sounds excellent.
I like the spiral cutter
I like Herb & Salad Chopper.
I’d like the spiral cutter, just to see if i could get my kids to eat all those fancy ‘noodles’ of veggies.
the Spiral Cutter looks very cool!
I have wanted a Elite Zester for some time
The elite zester because i don’t have a zester
I’d choose the spiral cutter. How fun would carrot noodles be!!??
Spiral cutter
the spiral cutter so I can cut up carrots to add to spaghetti dishes
I’d choose the Spiral Cutter so that I could make zucchini pasta
Herb & Salad Chopper –
Most definitely the spiral cutter!!! I don’t know why I don’t already own this item…..it’s brilliant!!
I would choose the spiral cutter
because my kids would love it. it would make our salads look so fancy
Elite Zester is great, would be useful for many of my recipes!
I’d choose the Spiral Cutter to add texture to salads!
I would pick the Herb and Salad chopper.
I would choose the Cube Grater, since I need a new one
I like the spiral cutter
The herb and salad chopper
spiral cutter. Always wanted one for salads!
I’d get the spiral cutter, I’ve never seen anything like that before. It’s quite unique!
Herb & Salad Chopper wqould be my choice!
The Cube Grater because I like the way it looks!
Herb & Salad Chopper would be good for me to handle because of my arthritic hands.
I already own the zester so I would choose the herb and salad chopper.
I love them all but would choose the Cube Grater first.
Herb & Salad Chopper .Its looks easy to use!
The spiral cutter would be fun
The herb and salad chopper as I am not so good with a knife
Tough choice – I think the grater as we need a new one anyway. I really like the salad chopper, too!
I would chose the spiral cutter so many healthy uses for it
I would choose the grater. I like the fact that it’s nice and compact.
Hard choice between the spiral cutter and herb and salad chopper 🙂
We would choose the Herb & Salad Chopper because we grow lots of herbs in the garden and would use this all the time.
the Cube Grater so i can grate me some fresh cheese to top my salads
I would choose the Cube Grater because I cook with all different types of cheeses and this gadget would come in real handy and make my job so much more easier
I would choose the Elite Zester because it can catch and measure what I’m grating.
The herb & salad chopper ! I use herbs daily as a sub for salt we no longer have salt in our home
I would go for the Herb & Salad Chopper
Spiral Cutter would be fantastic – so cool!
Spiral Cutter! So cool! And I’d look all fancy to supper guests lol.
Would like to try the Spiral Cutter ,doing no carbs so would be handy for veg noodles.
I would pick the Spiral Cutter
I think I would get the Spiral Cutter
I’d select the Spiral Cutter – it looks very cool – those veggies look great!
Thanks.
I would like the Spiral Cutter because it will be fun to make fun ribbons from veggies.
I’m a salad freak, so would love the herb & salad chopper.
I like the Herb & Salad Chopper because it would come in handy when I’m chopping herbs.
I’d probably choose the Spiral Cutter because it would be a quick and easy way to get more vegetables into our diet.
definitely the Spiral Cutter
Would love to try the spiral cutter!
I would choose the Herb and Salad Chopper as I use many herbs in my daily cooking.
I would love to have the spiral cutter, I could do so much with that!
I would love the spiral cutter
I would love the Spiral Cutter.
The Elite Zester…I don’t have a good zester so this would be great!