Black Walnut Cracker

This is the first inexpensive nu cracker that I have found to actually work for black walnuts. I put it in a vise for steadiness. The shells do not fly around the room as with a previous method I used. Easy to turn the screw. Seems study - I hope it lasts

This is a cool gadget, and I have cracked open walnuts, macadamia and pecans with it.The nut in the bottom helps hold nuts in place but the smooth top allows the nuts to slip so you have to hold them as best you can while cracking down on them.That is the reason for the less stars.Need to get something on the smooth surface to hold the nuts in place.Otherwise it works well and the pick that comes with was very handy for prying the nuts open where the crack was not all the way throughFix the faulty smooth top and then it will really be a great small gadget you could even take camping with you!Love thst it comes in a nice case too

This is a pleasant looking item, although it takes a long time to use, and it’s somewhat hard to adjust the nut appropriately. In the end, I had to buy a much less attractive looking cracker with a long handle, to deal with difficult nuts, such as hickory and black walnut.

I bought some macadamia nuts in shells a few years ago and tried everything to crack them but I wasn't able to . Then, the seller recommended this item to me. I bought it, tried it, and it worked! I can recommnd this nut cracker. It is a good price as well.

I used to use the convention two-handled nutcracker with connected pivots. It's a great design, but nowadays they all seem to be made out of cheap alloys instead of steel. The handles crack at the part where they contact the nut. So I tried several others after reading lots of reviews.Anwenk Nut Cracker: You can get a lot of power with this design, which is why I tried it. But it is very difficult to keep the nut in position. It tends to pop out. Even when it worked for a simple English Walnut, it usually took several minutes to get the nut to stay in position. The bottom needs to be cupped. That might help. Not recommended.

As one with design experience and a US Patent, this is a beautiful nutcracker. It is made well with very good materials and and weld joints. This screw device can crack any nut that I know of. Thought NOT for Hickory Nuts seemed to be the best on sight. Yet you only get one to perhaps three chanced to gently fracture the shell, before finger must be fully employed to hold the whole but cracked nut in place. Unlike the Walnut with a little movement of the meat inside the shell, there is most often no play inside to wiggle and get large sections out. My years of experience with Native Pecans to Paper Shells tells me only basic hardware was used and aside from bending and welds, it was not machined to simply hold the nut in its tiny seat to bring the bolt head to hold any nut securely before applying enough force to crack most any nut, except maybe almonds or Brazil Nuts. It took a full half hour to get one Hickory nut opened to where I could get half the meat.As a quality tester, I can see that BOTH contact points were forgotten by the designer/manufacturer. The flat design fits nicely into a drawer, but with an undersized "machine nut" as the base, it is like a golf tee being used to drive a softball as one struggles to get it to stay on the tee on a day with no wind. Machining a hollow into the bolt head would be more like two hands cupped around a basketball and daring someone to knock it out of your hands. All this would likely work in the flat design, but maybe a tripod design that can hang on a pegboard like one's measuring cups to keep it more visible to accessing any of the kinds of nuts that you would cholesterol lowering nutrition from.

My daughter brought me back fresh macadamia nuts in the shells from Hawaii and this works way better than a hammer and a meat tenderizer. I started out with a meat tenderizer, which worked great for about 5 nuts. Then the handle busted apart from the top. We went on to use a hammer (wrapped the nuts in a kitchen towel), but the shells smashed in to the nuts. So then we had to pick the shells out of the meat. I was not willing to do that for all of them so I purchased this nut cracker and I’m super glad that I did. It busted right through the shells and left me with whole nuts instead of smashed parts of them. Way better! It can get a little tedious doing it so many times one at a time, but for fresh macadamia nuts, it was worth it! It shipped out fast, too, which was a huge bonus since I was waiting to eat my treats!

We have a Hall's Hardy Almond tree with extremely thick hard shells. I've tried every nutcracker (kinetic - two different types, drosselmeyer (sometimes could crack the shell), large heavy duty contraptions), this one works wonderfully! Cracks every nut, yes you may have to hold the nut in place as you turn the vice, but so what?! Buy it, it works.