Grating Cheese for Cheese Straws

Video Transcript

"I'm Stephanie Barnett and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you what to bring to your next office Christmas party, something savory and something sweet. So I have my very sharp cheddar cheese, it's lovely, smells really good. I'm using a box grater today and you just want to push down on that box grater and I'll tell you the reason why I'm using the box grater. It gives you a much finer grate than if you use your Cuisinart with the shredding tool. I know that's much handier to do it in the Cuisinart with the shredding tool but it doesn't give you the fine grate that we really need for this cheese straw. So I'm going to take my one stick of butter and put in in my mix master bowl. If you don't have a mix master you can just do this in a glass bowl by hand, it's going to take a lot of arm strength. So I'm also going to add my cheese that I grated and we're going to put that on the mix master, it should have locked in, I'm going to put the paddle attachment on and we're going to pull up the bowl. Start on low, you don't want all of that cheese flying out of the bowl. Once the cheese and the butter start to incorporate, you can crank it up. It's going to get a little loud. This is what it looks like after you've blended the cheese and the butter together."