Back to the plot. This is a Garlic Card (Garlic Card web site official link).
However, the U shapes don't feel any sharper to the touch than the letters on a bank card. It takes quite a bit of effort to grate the garlic. And you need to dirty another plate, for the grated garlic to go on. The net result being that for the last year, I've reverted to a big knife and a chopping board; satisfying myself with chopped small instead of grated.
For Christmas I recieved a Grater of altogether different calibre.
Very simply titled as just 'Kit', the pack contains, a brush, a rubber tube and a suacer sized glass plate with nobbles on the bottom.
The rubber tube looks a bit gimmicky. But the idea is you put your whole Garlic clove in and roll it in the rubber tube until it makes a crack noise and then you should be able to peel it. This sounded a bit dubious, and the first one I tried I squashed the clove and the bits weren't bit enough to hold to grate. By the second clove, I'd gotthe hang of it and it's surprisingly each to shell the cloves.
Then holding by the bottom, because the glass nobbles are much harder, the garlic grates down very very quickly. All in, a winner. Thanks lovely Mum for this - so I can't link to where she got it from and I don't know the price.
The downsides to both though are:
- You waste the end of the cloves while avoiding grating your fingers
- Your fingers stink afterwards
