Great Tip For Zesting Citrus or Grating Fresh Ginger

For those of you who do not have a micoplane for zesting citrus or grating fresh ginger, here’s a great tip:

Wrap your grater in two layers of plastic wrap nice and tight (twice around the grater, leaving the top and bottom open but don’t worry about cutting the wrap.). Now, of course the trick here is to only do this on the small perforated side or what some folks call the "star" cut side with the metal punches outward. If you tried to do this on the regular grating side, you're going to end up with pieces of plastic in your ginger. But this way, you come off completely clean and you probably won't even have to wash the grater.