My mom’s spaghetti Bolognese recipe is the ultimate comfort food, and freshly grated nutmeg is the key ingredient. Head to ...

Others shared that it doubles as a nutmeg grater, which is true (though I’ve never escaped a nutmeg grating unscathed). Many more people agreed with the hard cheese theory, to which I say ...

Let the grater dry out a bit and use a dry brush to ... paste that “melts” into your tomato gravy, shave thin wisps of nutmeg into your pumpkin pie recipe, or make ginger root into a paste ...

And of course, aside from these multipurpose ones, these are specialized types — like zesters (meant exclusively for citrus ...