A bar grater is smaller than a regular grater, but has sharper teeth. It is used for grinding zest, nuts, chocolate, which are subsequently used as decorations for cocktails.
Some bartenders do without a grater, using a bartender’s knife instead, but even such a tool can make the job much easier and save time at the bar.
And although, in the first place, the grater is one of the oldest devices in the kitchen, bartenders began to use it relatively recently, since initially cocktails were not decorated in any way.
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