Why do we make things so hard on ourselves?

People have invented implements for millennia to make life just a little easier. But apparently, we STILL manage to find the most inconvenient way to use them.

Ok, raise your hand if you like shredding cheese.

No one, right?

Let’s face it, the only good part about the task is that it basically entitles you to steal some cheese for yourself – especially that unshreddable glob at the end. That’s yours. You earned it.

Other than that, shredding cheese is the kind of task that you just stand there and resent while wondering if you have enough bandaids in the house in case of a slip.

But it turns out, there’s a trick.

And when we say “trick,” we mean, there’s a right way to do it and most people aren’t taking advantage of it. (Not that we’ve done a scientific study or anything.)

Think about it for a minute – why would someone invent an implement where you have to press down INTO a bunch of tiny blades and risk slicing a finger with every movement?

It basically conspires with gravity to produce maximum blood in your cheese (or veggies, or whatever you’re grating).

But it turns out a cheese grater is safer than you think – if you use it correctly.

Maybe you’re like us and you don’t even consider using the other 4 sides. That’s fine. You can enjoy that one medium side to shred twice as much mozzarella as you need on your pizza. We won’t judge.

But for goodness sake, turn the darn thing on its side.

It turns out, the shredder is shaped like a box for a reason (unless you decided to get a one-sided shredder – then place it on top of your bowl).

Twitter user @beasymss was like many a humbled cook when they realized in October of 2018 that cheese should be shredded to the side, not murderously plummeted from the sky into a forest of awaiting blades.

Here, check it out:

Ok, I was today years old when I found out THIS is how a cheese grater is used !? I feel a fool pic.twitter.com/OwE0Cvm8ZO

— 𝔅𝔢𝔞 (@beasymss) October 12, 2018

It is all at once not a huge revelation and yet still enough to make you feel kind of dumb.

It’s ok though. You’re not alone.

Oh.. Wow … I feel dumb now

— Samira (@Mind_Ramble) October 13, 2018

For the haters

Maybe you knew this all along and are marveling at the sheer number of people who never figured out that a 4 sided cheese grater shouldn’t be stuck into a bowl (and a 1-sided grater shouldn’t be held up and down).

Congrats! You win nothing.

Or perhaps you still disagree about the mechanics of it all and have some meaningful engineering tidbits about metal fatigue or some other “I PWND you” comment. Rest assured that among the over 1,500 replies to this Tweet, yours is surely in there and hardly anyone cared. You can safely move on with your life.

There’s one point and one point only.

If you’ve been using your cheese grater in a way that’s more dangerous than it needs to be: SURPRISE! There’s a safer way.

Be sure to scroll down below to see the original Tweet WITH all of its comments, some of which are pretty funny and might make you feel better about being “today years old” when you learned to do something totally straightforward.

Please SHARE this with your friends and family.

Ok, I was today years old when I found out THIS is how a cheese grater is used !? I feel a fool pic.twitter.com/OwE0Cvm8ZO

— 𝔅𝔢𝔞 (@beasymss) October 12, 2018

Source: Twitter – @beasymss, Mental Floss