Microplane
A relatively recent addition to the roster of indispensable kitchen tools, the Microplane was developed in 1990 for use in woodworking. Four years later, a Canadian woman named Lorraine Lee reached for the tool (brought home by her husband, a hardware-store owner) to zest oranges for a cake, and the Microplane’s culinary life began. While box graters tear parmesan to heavy shreds, the Microplane turns it into fluffy, delicate clouds in minutes; shaving chocolate and zesting citrus fruit become similarly quick, pleasurable tasks with the new tool. If you’ve ever felt the wrath of the box grater on your knuckles, odds are you’ve since invested in a Microplane.
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