Cookerati

I’ve tried out a few new things by Copco lately and the Pizza Line from Mario Batali is another one.  The two items I tried out were the Pizza Knife and the Container Grater, both are decent kitchen tools to have.

The Pizza knife is the best pizza cutting tool for me.  I’ve had the pizza cutters with the little wheel, but this Pizza Knife cuts through it just by pressing down and rocking it back and forth once.  The only downside is that it’s big and you will need to figure out where to store it.  However, my husband and son loved it the first time we used it.  No cheese sticking to it and smearing, just  cut, cut cut, cut and you are done, it’s that simple and fast.  I put it into the dishwasher along the side to get cleaned off- where it won’t take up much room.  If you eat pizza on a regular basis – this would be something you would want to own.

The Container Grater – took a little practice.  I didn’t love it at first, but as I used it and got used to the way it worked, I liked it more and more.  Our first surprise was that we couldn’t figure out how to take the lid on and off.  My son figured it out and I thought I was a dunce until my daughter said that she and my husband wanted to use some of the cheese I had grated into the container, but couldn’t figure out how to open it up.  There are these two little pieces on the end that you squeeze together to slip the grater arm past.  Duh!  Then I filled the Cheese holder part too high, which made it awkward to hold and grate.  Once I realized that I should only fill the cheese holder part way so that the knob fit in better, moving the arm back and forth across the grater became easier.  Lastly, it’s a little messy, so you need to put a tray under the container while you are grating.

  After hearing all of that, you are probably thinking why bother?  Well, grating has always been messy for me and I always use a tray or plate, so that’s no different.  Using the regular cheese grater I scrape my fingers or I try to be careful so that I don’t scrape them.  This has a block with a knob that protects your fingers – thank you!  The components come apart and go into the dishwasher for easy cleanup.  Storage is wonderful.  I can grate the cheese into the container, and if I get interrupted (as I did last week with a sick daughter) I can put on the lid and stick it into the fridge and come back to it later. Once I figured out the trick to filling the cheese holder only part way, it was much easier on my arm to use and rocked back and forth and made the grating faster and easier.