30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEA cheese grater is one of the kitchen’s easiest problems to solve: you grate Parmesan, put the grater down, and then need a container for the cheese. You always need two things. Alejandro Ruiz solved that in 1994 with one.
Parmenide is a grater and cheese bowl in one. The grater is built into the mirror-polished steel lid, with a generous thermoplastic bowl underneath to collect what is grated. You grate directly into the bowl, set the lid aside and place the whole object on the table. Done. The form is clean enough not to look like a kitchen utensil, and that is precisely the point: Parmenide moves from preparation to serving without changing its identity. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has included it in its collection, which says something about what happens when a simple observation is translated properly into design.
Parmenide is made in three colours: frosted, red and black. Choose whichever suits your table, all three take equally good care of Parmesan.
Thirty years in production. Usually a good sign.
