Great for Arthritis
I ordered this last year for my mom who loves to eat pecans but due to arthritis had a hard time using a nut crackers. She loves it so she will not let anyone else use it. It is definitely worth the money.
Unbeatable.
As far as handling the nuts pictured with the product, you can't find a better device to handle them. This item was given to my mom who isn't the world's strongest woman by any means and she cracks the nuts with extremely low effort (as advertised)! As far as nuts flying out of the top, why not use one hand to cover the top and the other hand to squeeze the trigger - I would assure you, if my Mom can squeeze the lever with only one hand, you can too!
Complete Ripoff
Chef's Planet Innovative Black Nutcracker is a complete ripoff. Its a flimsy piece of plastic which can't crack nuts at all. Amazon should be ashamed for letting this outright piece of garbage onto its web site. Avoid at all costs.
Promising product, but dismal in the long run
Chef's Planet Innovative Black Nutcracker doesn't look like much, but it does successfully crack all kinds of nuts, even the tough brazil nuts. Unfortunately, the shell shards can get stuck in the handle. If you don't carefully clean them out before releasing the handle, the handle can break off. Wish the manufacture had warned me!
great idea but needs improvement
For hazal nuts, pecans,and brazil nuts it's great the shells really don't fly all over the place like with other nut crackers.. but forget almonds , their shape and size make it impossible to open. Most walnuts are also too large to fit into the small opening on top.. Another possible problem is that It's made of some plastic type material which may not hold up under pressure after much use..
a better one would have been made of metal and have a larger opening on top.. perhaps and even larger opening would make it so you can open several nuts at one time and just dump them all into a plate and pick away the shells..
