Grate
To Grate is the process of transforming firm food items into smaller finer pieces by rubbing the item against a handheld metal device that contains numerous raised slots of varying sizes that cut ingredients into finer strands.
Graters come in various guises, the common kitchen grater, a smaller handheld grater, commonly used for grating whole nutmeg etc, or nowadays some food blenders have a grater attachment.
