In a world of exotic, expensive and irreplaceable kitchen gadgets, one has eluded me for years.  I remember it from my childhood as something that my mother used to make an unremarkable egg salad for sandwiches.  But because of its proficiency in dicing hard-boiled eggs it resulted in the perfect consistency.

It was a sort of grater that was a rectangular piece of stainless steel with half-inch square holes through which she pushed hard-boiled eggs to achieve perfectly cubed pieces of yolk and white to make into the proverbially homey egg salad.

The grater

I’ve looked for it casually for years in kitchen stores without much success.  But I longed for it and I’m not sure why it took me so long to do an internet search.  I can’t remember the search words that I used but the search phrase must have had the word “grater.”

Then there it was like finding a hidden treasure.

I found it at two sites: Amazon and Wayfair.  It’s called a potato grater.  I don’t recall whether my mother ever used it to grate potatoes, but for her perfectly assembled egg salad, this gadget was incomparable.

On Amazon the product is Kuchenprofi potato grater (edelstahl rostfrei) for $17.99. At Wayfair the grater made by  Gefu was $26. That site sponsored by Wayfair, Gourmet Kitchen Works, is an amazing online store containing kitchen gadgets from Gefu from the esoteric to standard.

forget about chopping hard-boiled eggs for salad; this tool cubes it perfectly.

I’ve since used the gadget to grate potatoes and onions.  And this simple little too did both tasks perfectly.