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Oxo Good Grips Slim Nut/Seafood Cracker
Oxo Good Grips Slim Nut/Seafood Cracker :  $13.50   $11.75
Product Features:
  • Highly polished, sleek design
  • Solid zinc cracker for nuts and seafood
  • Safe to use in dishwasher

Product Description:

39881 Good Grips Nut Cracker

Customer Reviews:
smashed fingers
Not a good nutcracker for large hands. When the nut breaks (usually explosively) your fingers can get crushed too. Ouch!

2010-01-15 | Rating: 1

Not your grandfather's nutcracker!
I'm from an Italian family, and we always had bowls of nuts that my grandfather shelled for us kids after holiday dinners. I never realized just what a difficult job cracking those nuts was until my husband and I recently attempted it ourselves--unfortunately using the same flimsy type of metal nutcracker that my grandfather used to use. The very next day, I went out and purchased this Oxo Good Grips Slim Nut/Seafood Cracker. I was a little hesitant, as it seemed a bit pricey, but I brought it home, telling my husband that it was an early Christmas gift for him. Well, he was the first to use it, trying it on a Brazil nut--you know, the ones in the mixed nut bag with the thickest, hardest-to-crack shells. We were both taken aback when, after he had barely exerted much pressure at all with the new Oxo Nut Cracker, the nut easily came apart in his hands! We found this product worked just as well on larger nuts, like walnuts, as did on smaller nuts, such as almonds and hazelnuts. The weighty feel and larger size make the Cracker easier to hold, and the black grips decrease the risk of slippage. We haven't yet tried the Cracker for seafood, but I am confident that the Oxo would perform just as well as a Seafood Cracker as it does with nuts. Highly recommended!

2010-01-10 | doctor_beth (Upstate NY USA) | Rating: 5

Oxyo Nut Cracker
This was ordered and delivered promptly. For smaller nuts such as Pecans or Almonds, it's a great size and works well. This line of gadgets tends to have better functionality with their gripping ability. Anyone who has used one of the old style nut crackers knows what a hassle it can be to not be able to grip properly. This product makes it EZ to work.

2009-12-29 | Omega Man (Knoxville, TN) | Rating: 5

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sweetpudussy asked on Aug 17, 2007:

nutcrackers?

Shelle answered:
Nutcrackers....OOUCH
KCWS asked on Mar 06, 2007:

Nutcrackers?

Benvenuto answered:
The Germans are big on nutcrackers, so perhaps from their own forest? The label on the bottom doesn't give you much of an idea where the raw materials came from, though.

If made in China, I'm not sure. China today is getting a lot of iron ore from all around the world: Canada, Australia, the US, S. America, - any place where it can be had, since she is just sucking everything up.
  • mike1942f also said:
    Whatever hardwood is handy. Why would the materials come from a particular country? All that needs happen is that the wood that is doing the actual cracking is hard enough and strong enough not to be damaged by the cracking. In fact, the body of a nutcracker figure might be a softer easier to carve wood while the head, which does the cracking in the jaws is two or three pieces of harder wood. As for metal, I have seen brass, bronze, aluminum, steel, and cast iron nutcrackers, so metal can come from anywhere.
Zaleigh J asked on Jul 30, 7173:

How can you make your own nutcrackers?

liza doolittle answered:
you could be funny this year and decorate a hammer: acrylic paint then use spray polyurethane over....gently sand the wood of the hammer, prime it with "Bin primer" (water based is ok) then paint your decoration and use polyurethane spray to seal it.....just for a change...hahahahohoho...give it with a bag of nuts tied with a bow.
KCWS asked on Mar 10, 2007:

What are decorative nutcrackers made of?

american horse answered:
Wood. Various SOFT WOODS. Better ones are metal tho. I have also seen decorative ones made of paper mache.