Ikea Stralande rotary grater white Reviews Summary

Usability

Pros:

• "This grater shreds both hard and semi soft cheeses with ease."
• "It works great grating castille soap, no issues so far."
• "The handle is attached to the grater and can be easily reversed for left handed persons."
• "Also the fact it comes with two rotary blades, offers more versatility."
• "It's so easy to use and clean, you'll be eating more cheese just for the chance to use it again."
• "You just turn the handle and you are all set."
• "This grater seems to be much sturdier than others."

Cons:

• "I am constantly adjusting my grip to put pressure on the food."
• "It is so hard to get a good grip on it and hold the cheese or other food item against the blade in order to get the grating done fast."
• "It’s too clumsy to feed the cheese through, especially sucks for parmesan cheese."
• "You also have to apply quite a bit of pressure to shred it."
• "This grater lacks 2 key features: it has no cover for the openings, and it grates very poorly."
• "I am a little disappointed when trying to grate soft cheese."
• "Don't plan on grating a large amount of cheese, as your hand will cramp pretty quickly."

Durability

Pros:

• "It has been through the dishwasher multiple times. Still works great, and no rust - though I do wipe down excessive water, and wipe it clean after each use."
• "It didn't break when my husband used it (like the other one we had did)!"
• "The grater barrel is larger than other models which makes it less likely to clog up if you grate a soft cheese like mozzarella."
• "I've owned 5 different hand graters in the last 10 years, and they are heading to a giveaway box. This one wins out."
• "This has held up for over two years with lots and lots of dishwasher cleanings and moves."
• "I've had it for a little over four years now and it hasn't broken, and the blades are still nice and sharp."
• "We love this grater. After breaking several other graters by other manufacturers, we took a chance on this one thinking it would surely break, too. It hasn’t!"

Cons:

• "This cheese grater worked well while it lasted. Which wasn't very long."
• "So I've owned this for just under 11 months and it just broke."
• "After 2.5 years, the concern about breakage was right: the handle simply snapped off."
• "The notches the ring attach to to keep the grater (metal) part in the housing have slowly broken."
• "Unfortunately after only a handful of uses I noticed that the plastic inside the barrel was scraping away."
• "Barely lasted about two months. The box and the product details clearly state it’s dishwasher safe, however our just got terribly deformed from washing it in the dishwasher."
• "This grater lasted 4 years until the plastic casing connecting the drum to the handle cracked."

Cleaning

Pros:

• "Cleaning is about equal to box grater, using a brush, or dishcloth."
• "Easy to use, goes right into the dishwasher."
• "We put it through the dishwasher so cleaning is very easy."
• "And the clean up was practically nothing. I took the cylinder back out of it and rinsed everything off with water."
• "The cheese grates with little resistance, and then you just throw it in the dishwasher for the quickest clean-up ever."
• "It all comes apart and is super easy to clean, it basically rinses clean after use."
• "Cleanup is a breeze."

Cons:

• "This leaves room for food to accumulate and cleaning it thoroughly does not clean in the gap."
• "This is awful! This grater actually grated the plastic piece that the blade slides into."
• "Difficult to clean though."
• "The seam in the grater has a large gap and leaves chunks of cheese unshredded."
• "It concerns me there is a white ring you screw on after inserting grater size to secure it in place. It can easily get misplaced with other dishes after washing."
• "Trying to grate hard cheeses, this grater bends in your hands."
• "It worked fine until I noticed that the sheet metal joint after the wrap-around leaves a gap at the 'joint.'"

Design

Pros:

• "The small size of this product makes grating any piece of cheese bigger than about 2 inches by 2 inches impossible."
• "I absolutely LOVE this product! I will never go back to a regular cheese grater again."
• "The grater is easy to use, assemble, clean and store. It’s a good value."
• "It is very sturdy and well made so if you don't need the shaved grater, then I would recommend this item."
• "If you can get to an Ikea store you'll pay much less for it, but either way I would recommend purchasing this."
• "What I like most is how easy it is to turn!"
• "It is easy and take apart to clean."

Cons:

• "It's kinda small so every time I make a rotation with the handle I am bumping into my hand that's holding the grater."
• "However, I wouldn't recommend it for big recipes- there's just too much extra work to do for it to be 'convenient'."
• "It's big and bulky. Won't fit in most drawers."
• "I did get annoyed with how small I had to cut the cheese in order to get it in the grater...would take quite a while to shred if I wanted to grate more than a little bit."
• "My hand does get a little sore when grating large quantities; however, my boyfriend doesn't have this issue so it could just be that my hands are too small."
• "The biggest difference for cleaning is that the rotary barrels have to be unfastened, unlike the old one where you could just lift the barrels out to clean."
• "When rotated, the metal rotary grinder is actually 'grinding' the white plastic casing, liberating plastic shards into your food."