How to sharpen a vegetable grater very quickly

The article shows step by step, with photographs, how to sharpen the cutting surface of a grater with an ordinary drill yourself and very simply, and most importantly quickly, if you don’t disassemble it like I did.

Any vegetable grater, when used, loses its cutting properties over time. The sharp edges that turn vegetables into minced meat or delicately cut strips become dull and the torment begins. This is easy to fix, and I'll tell you how below. Almost all graters are made according to the same principle, and these instructions will be applicable to almost any type of grater.

Not very long ago, my wife bought a nice little vegetable grater of a not very large size and, as often happens, she put her purchase in the closet. Everything looks fine.

Then, when she needed to grate vegetables, she took it, tried to use it for its intended purpose and was disappointed with this seemingly high-quality thing. She did not want to perform her functions. I examined it and found that the cutting edges on the grater were completely blunt. It says German quality, but as often happens, it was apparently made by our neighbors from China. Whether you like it or not, you need to sharpen it.But before sharpening, I decided to disassemble it for better sharpening. It is easy to understand and the photographs show how to do it. The main thing is not to rush and do everything carefully, with feeling, sensibly, and in order.

Here comes the hero of the occasion, the drum that doesn’t want to work.

In order to disassemble the drum for sharpening, you need to remove the locking ring from the latches. Be careful not to break them. Carefully pull the drum to the left as shown in the photo.

We measure the diameter of the holes, I got 2.5 mm, take the same drill, preferably a very good and new one. We insert it into a screwdriver, drill, drill, etc. The main thing is that there are as many revolutions as possible and at a large angle, as in the photo, we drill all the holes. The results are very sharp edges. Q.E.D.

If desired, these sharp edges can be made even sharper by using a drill and a diamond bur to go through all the holes, but this is optional. And the very sharp edges can hurt your hands. The method of sharpening with a diamond bur can be used constantly, if you do not allow the cutting edges of the vegetable cutter to become too dull.

Most vegetable graters can be sharpened using this method. You just need to select drills according to the diameter of the holes, since there are different types of graters.

Tests on vegetables showed that the method works great.

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