I own this grater and am currently in the market for another. This is the third type of cheese grater I have owned (one is a cylinder-in-cylinder that you twist while pushing down on the cheese against a circular grating disk on the bottom, and that works decently, but the circumference is too big for my hands to do it comfortably). This particular rotary style grater is not designed to be held in the human hand comfortably, though the hand crank is better than the cylinder design I just mentioned. However, the feeder chamber has these plastic cross pieces that stick out which are what put pressure on the cheese to push it through the grating cylinder, and the cheese will eventually split around those and get stuck in the feeder where, if your pieces become too small, they can no longer be pushed into the grating cylinder. Even if they don't break, I have found that the pushing mechanism really leaves quite a bit of cheese at the end that can't reach the grating holes. So far my best experience has been with the handle-type rotary grater they use in Olive Garden restaurants, and I am now in the market for a new one of those. I may buy the electric rechargable one, since that way you only have to work the hand holding the cheese against the grater blade, and not try to crank at the same time! I'm guessing this will allow for much better "targeting" of the grated product since the grater won't be wiggled around from having to crank it.