Hand Crank Nutcracker Tool for English Walnuts, Hazelnuts, Almonds, Soft Shell Pecans, Pistachios and Filbert nuts, brazil nuts. All Steel, Portable, Adjustable and Affordable! RED_CRK

the tool was made of very thin cheap metal sheet. the cracking teeth were made of fragile metal. it is not as big and not steady as it looks like in the pictures of the ad. it looks like a small toy rather than a tool.

Almost useless

Das Ding geht für Walnüsse gar nicht

We were really hoping this nutcracker would solve a problem for us. We grow almonds in our home orchard, and this particular kind -- "Hardy almonds" -- do produce your classic tough-nuts-to-crack. This machine can't do the job, but we thought to be fair, we'd try it with some of the assorted in-the-shell nuts left over from Christmas. It did work better on those, but the machine did fire out bits of shell out the top. It also dumped everything else -- broken shells and (often broken) nuts -- from the chute at the base. There is a knob to adjust the width in the grinder/cracker, but still, the whole thing is a messy (and loud) process. On the plus size, the cracker is reasonably heavy duty metal.To be fair, most "normal" one-by-one nutcrackers don't do a very good job on our Hardy Almonds either. In fact, after trying numerous devices, the things that ended up working best for us were a couple of long-handled vice grips -- the kind of tools you buy at a hardware store. They are heavy duty, the teeth of the pliers are curved on both sides to give a good grip on the nut, and you can set the position of the vice so that it does not crush the nuts in the shell. Also, the vice grips were only $14 each. So while this hand-crank nutcracker is a good idea, it did not work for us and back it went for a refund.

If you can't come through correctly they're perfect other than that you end up with pieces. It is faster than single cracking and at least you still have pecans in the end.