After reading the Real Life Test Kitchen on the perfect lemon cake, you might be saying to yourself, a 1/4 cup of lemon zest! That’s a lot of zesting! Well, I have to share a new gadget that made the zesting of half a dozen lemons a breeze: the palm zester. I had been using traditional handheld graters, but often scraped my knuckles along with the fruit’s skin. This little guy slips through your fingers of one hand, while the other holds the lemon. Circle round and the attached container catches all the zest for you. To get a 1/4 of a cup, I had to fill this baby up about four times. But it went fast. It’s $8 at Target, and I recommend you get one to help with your next lemony creation!

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