Duke Company Pecan Nut Cracker
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Duke Company Pecan Nut Cracker
Customer Review: Crack Pecans Galore
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the greatest invention since sliced bread. The cracker leaves the pecan intact which is great for pies and decorating. Leaves pecan dust on whatever surface you are using but it is worth the mess. Use a newspaper or something underneath where you will be cracking. The slide where the pecan goes adjusts for small to large pecans. I think the price is too high from Amazon especially if you have to pay shipping. Apparently you can get the same brand at Wal-Mart during the holiday season for a fraction of the price, but I never get lucky to snag one in town so had to pay the price! It is a well made pecan cracker and will last many years if well taken care of.Customer Review: Cracks the Hardest Native Pecans
Summary: 4 Stars
Once you get the hang of it, this is the best nutcracker for cracking those hard-shelled Texas pecans. Ten times better than a hammer (what I was using before I got it), this cracker leaves the nut meat whole or in usable pieces rather than smashing it all to pulp.
It takes a little practice to get it just right, but then you can really go to work on a batch of the best nuts around.
I would like to have a setup so that the shells didn't fly all over, but that's really my only complaint.
If you're dealing with nuts with very, very hard shells, I recommend you get one of these. It will do the job!
Four stars!
Customer Review: Customer Satisfaction
Summary: 3 Stars
The product performs well; an enhancement would be for the the base to be broader!Customer Review: Dangerous Design Flaw
Summary: 1 Stars
This product lasted less than 10 minutes for me.
The problem is a design flaw that most people will not see until they attempt to crack smaller-sized nuts. I was cracking hickory nuts, which are smallish but not ridiculously so -- and the product failed within the first 20 nuts.
The way you adjust for nut size is a threaded cylinder on the side opposite the handle. You can see it in the picture. It works fine. I do not agree with one reviewer that it is hard to adjust. Not at all -- it takes a few seconds.
The problem is that it needs to be an inch longer.
That threaded cylinder is so short that you almost can't adjust it close enough to the other side to handle hickory nuts. But you can -- just barely. I did. But then it was being held in by just a few threads -- which were not enough to keep it stable under the pressure of actually cracking the nuts. The cylinder slipped and became cross-threaded in its sleeve. I can't budge it now -- it might as well be welded. I will never be able to crack anything *but* a hickory nut.
If it had failed just a little differently, I kind of think that I could have been harmed.
It's a shame because this is a perfectly good design (although it would be nice if the whole device were a little bit bigger, a little bit beefier.) If they had made that cylinder just one inch longer this problem would be impossible. Somebody decided to save 20 cents in the cost. Very foolishly.
The fact that this can happen so easily means that the people who designed and built this device did not bother to test test it as they should have. What other problems did they miss that I don't know about? You know -- nutcrackers develop a lot of force, in close proximity to people's fingers. Fingers are important. Testing your products is important.
After I finish writing this review, I'm going to order a more expensive nutcracker from Lehman's. When it arrives, I will drop this one in the trash and forget it.
The only thing I will keep is a little mental note of the manufacturer's name.
Customer Review: Does a great job!
Summary: 5 Stars
We have lots of pecans this year and it is a big job to crack all of the nuts with a hand cracker. It is easy to use and I will be making a lot more pecan recipes with the help of this nut cracker.