Review on Stainless Steel Citrus Zester & Cheese Grater - Razor-Sharp Blades For Parmesan, Lemon, Ginger, Garlic, Nutmeg & More Fruits/Vegetables - Protective Cover Included (Purple) by Nathan Guzman

I’ve only recently gotten back into baking, or somewhat more elaborate cooking too, for that matter, after thinking that I’d ‘used those cooking motivation cells up’ during all of those years of raising kids, cooking for our sit-down-together-every-night dinners after full days of outside the home work. My now grown kids would brag to my still new hubby about my ‘wonderful’ cooking and baking and he’d assumed that he’d ‘missed the boat’ (likely because I told him that!)….but a combination of pandemic lockdown and feeling kitchen creative again found me in my kitchen, even reading new recipes again! That’s when I discovered a few things that although NOT new to most moderately OK home cooks/chefs, they were to me…one of which is the JOY of using citrus zest in my recipes! Which brings me to THIS WONDERFUL ZESTER! Not only is it a great size, makes it easy to hold over the bowl without spilling all over the counter, but it only needs moderate pressure and you get a LOT of feather light zest! No kidding- I zested 2-1/2 lemons using my old 1-sided flat grater (thinking I didn’t need a special one JUST for the few times that I might start adding zest into my recipes now) for the amount listed in one of my favorite new recipes; after receiving THIS tool I used just ONE(1) lemon for the same amount of zest (2T, if you’re curious)! Even accounting for any small size differential in my lemons, it was wild! Plus, my hands and fingers did NOT hurt, I never even came close to grating my fingers, and it was a breeze to clean; just ran it under hot water to get out/off the majority of what I couldn’t scrape into my mixing bowl (and didn’t need) and then took less than a minute with dishwashing soap and brush! I could have put it into the dishwasher but I prefer to hand wash most of my tools. Bottom line: this simple cooking tool is WELL WORTH its very reasonable cost and it stores easily in my standard depth kitchen drawer where I keep most of my tools! If you’re hesitating because you’re not sure that you REALLY need this, just be nice to yourself and hit the order button. You might even start putting lemon, lime or orange zest in all sorts of recipes, easily giving your old dish a new ‘pop’ of flavor!