Grater

A grater, also known as a shredder, is a kitchen utensil used to grate foods into fine pieces.

Several types of graters feature different sizes of grating slots, and can therefore aid in the preparation of a variety of foods.

In the Indian subcontinent, the grater is used for preparation of a popular dessert, Gajar Ka Halwa.

The first attested graters were made out of bronze, and also silver alloys, in the early first millennium BCE, examples of which were uncovered from burial sites in Greece and Etruscan Italy.

[2][3] In line with Homer's Iliad, these were sometimes used to grate goat's cheese in the making of a type of Kykeon, a fast-breaking drink.