Lemon sherbet & the fruit grater

Lemon is one of those all time favourite flavors, refreshing and you kinda never get sick of it. It's also the flavor the partner tried to make during the ice-cream making class but that turned out weird cos too much lemon paste was used. Bleargh.

So while we are still experimenting with vanilla at the moment, we also constantly keep an eye out on lemon sherbet recipes as well. And we noticed that most recipes require real lemons + something called 'zest' which you are supposed to scrap from the lemon skin. But neither your normal fruit peeler nor cheese grater type will work cos one will produce strips that are too thick, and the other will give you tiny specks that get stuck in the grater holes.

The professional thingy that does the job is called a microplane grater and it looks like this...

But the closest we could find in the department store is this atas branded WMF one...take note it's supposed to have bigger grater holes.

However this thing has a hefty price tag of 25$ so meaning we shall continue our hunt for a more value buy or hope there's a sale soon. Well, lemon sherbet will have to wait for a while.