With the thumb of your other hand, press each piece of gnocchi dough gently against the paddle and down and away. The gnocchi will curl around your thumb and the outside will be marked with ridges. The ridges help the gnocchi cook evenly and the indent holds the sauce. The flavor of freshly grated nutmeg can knock your socks off. A little goes a long way, while the ground stuff in the supermarket is often a ghost of the real thing.
Nutmeg graters have tiny sharp teeth that bite into the hard nutmegs.
The best graters for Parmesan grate the cheese into a very fine dust like the finest powder snow. Parmesan has a strong flavor and it's expensive. The grater makes the most of a precious ingredient. These graters work great for citrus zest as well and their shape saves your knuckles. Maybe I prefer grill plaques to pans because they are closer to what I'd cook on in the restaurant.