Manual Nutcracker Nut Tongs Adjustable Nut Crackers for All Nuts Macadamia Nut Cracker Heavy Duty Pecan Nut Cracker Opener Tool For Walnuts Chestnuts Pecans Hazelnuts Almonds

Wow! Can't believer there any bad reviews for this nut cracker. I was hesistant to purchase it due to the bad reviews. I took a chance and purchased it.We use only for Macadamia nuts. It works SO GOOD! Its very sturdy. You can change the size of the cracker to crack big or small nuts. You only need to pull the handle slightly to crack the nut. If you pull the handle really hard, it will smash the inside of the nut. The box around the cracker catches all the debris from the nut crackage. So happy that we took a chance on this nut cracker.We have a huge Macadamia nut tree and have loved being able to eat the nuts. We eat them raw, after they sit in the sun for 2 weeks. (you need to roll the nuts around, so the sun gets all sides of the nut dried out).This nut cracker is highly recommended. Feel free to ask me any questions. -DG

I've been looking for a good, reliable Macadamia Nut cracker for several years. You probably already know how hard (difficult) they are to crack open. We had one a while ago that was spring loaded and very complicated and time consuming to use. This cracker works like a champ. Just put to nut in the "vice" and pull the handle. Couldn't be easier. The place where you put the nut is also adjustable so you can open large or small nuts. Although I would think it's overkill, you could open other nuts as well. However most other nuts don't require the amount of force that Mac's do. And, on top of working so well, it's not very expensive. Fewer moving parts, fewer problems. Now I'm enjoying Macadamia Nuts all the time where before I wouldn't because they were such a pain to open. Definitely worth it if you have Macadamia Nuts.

Easy to crack pecans but the way they crack the petals they are not so easy to peel

Stronger than I thought it would be ! Got it as a gift for my dad and he mostly uses it for Macadamia nuts , it’s help up so far !

This is a great device! I’m embarrassed to say that I do collect nutcracker tools, and out of all the nutcrackers that I have, this is the one that you can have the most control over the amount of pressure you want to apply to the nut, and it’s the easiest for people who have arthritis. I sure hope it lasts but for now it’s just wonderful :-)

I don’t write many reviews despite quite a lot of purchases. This warranted a review. I absolutely recommend this for hazelnuts! I tell you I looked for a long time for the right one to buy and I hit the nail on the head with this one. I love that I can adjust the device to fit the hazelnut. l don’t like that the device was attached to the box crooked and off centered. It seemed careless, but it is easy to fix myself with a few tools. No big deal. Before this purchase I used a few hammers to crack the hazelnuts, as you can see in my picture and they mangled my hazelnuts. I tapped them gently between a towel and it didn’t help. This device did the job. After using this device used the soft pot holder to fold over the nut to keep it from popping out of the box when it was cracked and to avoid my fingers from being pinched. Not sure it was totally necessary, but I did have a few shells flip out of the box. I do love this!

I have used over the years a variety of devices for shelling pecans. This is the BEST device I have ever used!!!1. It uses the principle of mechanical advantage (MA) to reduce the effort needed to crack a pecan facilitated through a cam-action: most sheller devices require a lot of effort.2. The lever arm (handle) is longer than the usual devices, which, when combined with the increase in MA provided by the cam action with the jaws of the vice, contribute to the overall increase in the MA.3. The steel jaws of the vice exert pressure on the side of the pecan causing the pecan to crack easily to make the "picking out" process much easier. (Most other devices crack pecans by applying pressure against the longitudinal axis (longways, as we say in the South) of the pecan. "Longways" devices require a lot more pressure to crack the pecan, but the devices, with the much shorter handle make it damn near impossible to crack some pecans. I've even tried building longer handles, with very limited success, to increase the MA.4. The usual devices shatter the shell rather than just cracking the shell, launching pecan-shell shrapnel around the area in which the device is used. This, generally, precludes their use indoors, unless you enjoy finding and sweeping up pecan shells. This device collects the cracked pecans in its builtin tray and there is NO SHRAPNEL!!!!5. Many of the pecans thus cracked require little to no effort to remove the remaining shell fragments and more often than not it yields whole pecans rather than pecan pieces.Bottom line: Do not even consider other devices if you have more that a pint or two of pecans to shell. This device gets five stars, but more importantly it gets five Wows.

The nut cracker works wonderfully. Problem is when I recieved it the screws were all loose or missing. I had to reattach to the box it comes in. The problem is the holes are all stripped out so I am gonna have to glue the screws in or screw them in a different spot. None of that is hard but if I wanted to build a nut cracker I would not have purchased this one. Again I say it works great, just arrived in poor condition.