What does grating mean in cooking

In culinary terms, grating is the process of transforming solid, firm food items into small pieces by rubbing the item against a grater. A grater is a hand held metal device that contains numerous raised slots of varying sizes that cut ingredients into small pieces. While applying a bit of pressure, food is scraped along the sharp serrated edges of the grating instrument. There are a dizzying amount of choices of graters available. The main difference between shred and grate is that shredding results in longer fragments, while grating results in shorter fragments.

Shredding and grating are two cooking instructions we often confuse since they are very similar. There is a difference between shredded and grated food based on their cooking time and consistency.

Both involve food like cheese, coconut and non-leafy vegetables like carrots. You can either shred or grate food using a simple kitchen grater. Cheese, Grate, Grating, Shred, Shredding. In cooking, shredding means to cut into shreds or thin strips. Recipes usually call for shredded food like cheese, carrots and cabbages.

Shredding can be done with graters — either hand grater or box graters. For shredding, you can use a grater with big holes. You can even use a food processor for shredding.

From the Cambridge English Corpus. Responses of striate cor tex cells to grating and checkerboard patterns. Responses of striate cortex cells to grating and checkerboard patterns. To compare the development of contour integration with basic spatial resolution, we measured either grating acuity or full contrast sensitivity functions.

Effect of static noise and grating masks on detection and identification of grating targets. By giving the grating a suitable structure, one can obtain interesting physical effects which, in turn, can be useful for a number of applications.

Large-aperture compression gratings require stringent compression grating alignment to minimize beam shear, pedestal, and pulse lengthening effects. After reflecting off the grating the resulting fringe pattern or ' spectrogram ' may be viewed or photographed at the exit port of the spectrometer. The effects of grating area and spatial frequency on contrast sensitivity as a function of light level.

Change in ver tical position increased monotonically with grating speeds up to 50 deg 0s, in both control and "barber pole" conditions. Right-end plots display the initial changes in horizontal and ver tical positions, as a function of grating and line-endings speeds, respectively. If the two gratings are in phase, the resulting combination is a stronger stimulus than either grating alone.

Movements of the eyes bring about changes in the relative phases of a par ticular grating on different trials. Schematic diagram of the effect of off-axis grating orientation on the frequency of intersections of the grating with a thin-line process.

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