microplane is awesome (vid)
beerorkid | May 22, 2008
I absolutely love my microplane grater. It is such a well made gadget I would not know how to make it better besides having the grip permanently molded on.
In the vid below I say it was etched by lasers. I was wrong. The blades are made with a chemical process. As you can see from their about us page. I still think the stainless is either laser cut or stamped before sharpening though.
Microplane® tools’ tiny razor-like edges are formed by a totally different process called photo-etching in which holes are dissolved with a chemical, leaving edges that finely slice instead of tearing or shredding.
