Microplane

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title: "Microplane" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["food-preparation-utensils", "woodworking-hand-tools", "kitchenware-brands"] description: "Brand of grater" topic_path: "general/food-preparation-utensils" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplane" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Brand of grater ::

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Microplane is a registered trademark of Grace Manufacturing Inc., a company that makes photo etched steel tools (surform tools) for grating, grinding and sanding. It was created by brothers Richard & Jeff Grace in the mid-1990s. The Grace brothers set out to make a wood-carving rasper and ended up with a new invention, which in 1991 would come to be called Microplane.

Kitchen graters

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Microplane graters are used for the grating of various food items, such as nutmeg and cheese, and also as zesters for citrus fruit.

Wood rasps

Microplane originally made wood rasps and shaving disks, and they still do.

References

References

1. (2022-04-08). "Trademark Status & Document Retrieval - Microplane".
2. Edge, John T.. (2011-01-11). "How the Microplane Grater Escaped the Garage". The New York Times.
3. Price, Will. (2022-02-13). "One of the World's Most Popular Kitchen Tools Was a Complete Fluke".

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