Nutcrackers with leverage!

[AleisterCrowley]

My mum has trouble using normal nutcrackers when dealing with walnuts etc, she doesn't have the wrist strength (and I have problems occasionally)
Can anyone recommend an alternative design which provides a bit more mechanical advantage (?)
There appear to be some screw and multi-lever devices available on Amazon, but would appreciate input from anyone who has used these
TIA
AC

[Breelander]

Can anyone recommend an alternative design which provides a bit more mechanical advantage (?)

As a child, I remember my parents had one like this. They are incredibly effective.


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A ratchet design, similar to a car jack, that gradually increases pressure on the shell to avoid damaging the kernel inside is used by the Crackerjack, patented in 1947 by Cuthbert Leslie Rimes of Morley, Leeds and exhibited at the Festival of Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutcracker

[AleisterCrowley]

Thanks -looks interesting - but does anyone make them these days?
I've found some on 'vintage' sites for £££££s

there are lever ones on Amazon, but seem to get poor reviews
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01ITDSWOU/ ... NrPXRydWU=

[ReformedCharacter]

My mum has trouble using normal nutcrackers when dealing with walnuts etc, she doesn't have the wrist strength (and I have problems occasionally)
Can anyone recommend an alternative design which provides a bit more mechanical advantage (?)
There appear to be some screw and multi-lever devices available on Amazon, but would appreciate input from anyone who has used these
TIA
AC

Not quite answering your question, but why not buy pre-shelled nuts? I love nuts and eat more than I would care to admit. I'm prepared to pay for good nuts that are fresh, or at least as fresh as possible. I buy them from here:

https://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/nuts.html

I find this supplier reasonable for cost and good for quality.

Nuts are very good for you!

PS. My father used to use a good quality mole wrench for nut-cracking, it worked well.

RC

[AleisterCrowley]

My mum seems to have the world's supply of unshelled walnuts...

[eepee]

Screw nutcracker?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from ... r&_sacat=0

Especially the capstan types.

Regards,
ep

[kiloran]

Here's an idea:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source= ... 3309028140

--kiloran

[kempiejon]

I can never find the nut crackers, I think they live hidden in a drawer only discoverable at Christmas time. I have resorted to pliers/mole grips, a hammer on the patio or my vice. I can usually do walnuts in my hands though. Pliers are OK for small nuts, the vice is most controllable but it means taking a handful to the shed to open a batch, still that stops the debris that nut opening leaves on and around the coffee table.

[88V8]

....have resorted to pliers/mole grips.............

There are several of those Crackerjacks on eBay, some pretty cheap.

Mole grips.... I remember must be forty years ago and more down in Devon, we bought a fresh crab, the only implement we had to eat it with was Mole grips, and a screwdriver with which to apply the butter.
Ahh, the benefits of technology.

V8