Cheese Grater

Cheese Grater is a cooking item in Project Zomboid. It weighs 1. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.

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Cheese Grater at a glance

Cooking Tools

It weighs 1.

Weight1

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What it is and how to use it

Tools unlock jobs: carpentry, mechanics, farming, fishing, cooking and more. Many recipes only need the tool to be in your inventory, not equipped.

More: Every tool · Crafting in Build 42.

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Item ID and variants

Use the item ID in sandbox loot settings, admin tools and mods.

Item ID	Game category
`Base.CheeseGrater`	Cooking

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Where it spawns: the loot tables

Cheese Grater is on 8 loot tables in the game files. Share is how much of a table's total weight this item takes, before your sandbox loot settings. Each container rolls its table several times, so a bigger share and more rolls both mean you see it more often.

Loot table	Where that table is used	Share	Rolls
Pizza Kitchen Cheese	Pizza Restaurant (cupboard)	16%	4
Pizza Kitchen Butcher	Pizza Restaurant (cupboard)	9.1%	4
Pizza Kitchen Baking	Pizza Restaurant (cupboard)	6.9%	4
Italian Kitchen Baking	Italian kitchen (cupboard)	6.0%	4
Kitchen Pots	House kitchen (cupboard); Kitchen (cupboard); Living room (cupboard)	4.4%	4
Kitchen Dishes	House kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Living room (cupboard)	4.2%	4
Gigamart Housewares	Department storage (shelves); General Store (shelves); GigaMart (shelves); and 2 more places	4.2%	4
Diner Back Room Counter	Diner back room (cupboard)	3.3%	4

Inside bags and cases: Garbage Bag.

Town by town: loot locations.

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Recipes: how to make it and what it makes

What it is used for

Used up as an ingredient in 3 recipes: Smelt Iron From Small Item, Smelt Small Iron Item, Smelt Steel From Small Iron Item.

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Quick answers

How much does the Cheese Grater weigh in Project Zomboid?

It weighs 1 in Build 42.

What is the item ID for Cheese Grater?

Base.CheeseGrater.