Sister wants some decent nut crackers. Since they need to not pulverise the nut, I think they should be a ratchet or depth stop, etc. I could send her some mole grips or a ratchet cramp, but I don't think that would go down too well. I found a plastic ratchet nut cracker on the internet but the reviews suggest it is too flimsy for the job in hand and the plastic arms bend. So, anyone know where I can get a kitchen-safe nut cracker that works ? Simon.
I bought one of these and it works well. I have only tried it on walnuts so far as my neighbour has a tree and gives me carrier bags full of them.
Do you actually need a nutcracker on 'em? We're munching our way happily through the large pile of walnuts our tree's given us this year - and they just open with a light squeeze on the seam. Delicious, too.
I have a set like these:
which we are happy with as they don't go too far and break the nut.
If you're very bored you can carefully crack open the walnut, remove the yummy bit and then write tiny notes, put them inside the nut and glue it carefully back together and return to a special bowl for guests. Sort of fortune nuts.
Don't think that hasn't already been suggested...
sm_jamieson grunted in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Well, when I were a lad, we had a ratchet set which looked like these, and they really were the dog's bollocks of nutcrackers, so to speak (AFAIK my ma probably still has them in her drawer):
We don't have nutcrackers at home now, since No. 1 daughter is allergic to nuts, so they aren't allowed in the house. I can tell you, Xmas just isn't the same :(
+1 Ours is stamped 'Crackerjack Made in England'. Plenty on Ebay
Doesn't work so well with Brazil nuts.
Colin Bignell
Don't you have one of these in the workshop?
Completely controllable and will crack any nut.
Colin Bignell
Fine until the spring breaks and then they are scrap. Rubbish quality.
Most of the ones on eBay have been working for forty years, and may reasonably be expected to continue doing so for a while longer.
Best tool I had for opening walnuts was like a steel plectrum, you inserted the pointy end of the plectrum in the blunt end of the walnut and twisted, it came free with a bag of walnuts but I lost it and have never seen any walnuts that come with another one ...
How do you work that out? My brand new one lasted 18 months. As I say rubbish quality.
Angle grinder
They were called crackerjack. You can get a vintage pair from ebay. I found the name on a pair that I have had for sometime.
(Google for crackerjack nutcracker)
Peter Crosland grunted in news:jrOdnfuaTI0gmT snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:
Yup, that's the one - I rembember the name now.
But are you sure you're talking about genuine 'Crackerjacks'? It's very evident that there are plenty of cheap'n nasty (identical-looking) copies around (eg the Amazon one I linked to above).
I should have said 'used' ones. Most older ones seem to have been well built, and are probably only used on two days of the year. After Boxing day, they are thrown to the back of a drawer and not touched again for another twelve months.
The rnib used to do one, but I don't think they do anymore, maybe they had too many squashed body parts.
Brian
We have serious nut crackers in Australia.
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