Reed's Rocket Nutcracker

by Harold Imports

Product Features

• Heavy duty nutcracker with vintage design
• Grips the nut firmly with 5 points of contact for greater power plus cleaner, larger nut meats
• Great for pecans, English walnuts, almonds, filberts, and Brazil nuts
• All steel machined construction with attractive wooden base and handle grip
• Made in USA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 2 x 2.5 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BI2SFG
• Item model number: 1710
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,487 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #5 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Specialty Tools & Gadgets > Nut Crackers

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Get cracking with Reed's Rocket Nutcracker, which offers a vintage design that cracks even the toughest nut with ease. Made of heavy duty steel, the Rocket's 5-star cracking action grips the nut firmly with 5 points of contact, giving your greater cracking power and assuring cleaner, larger nut meats. You'll be able to quickly go through bags of pecans, English walnuts, almonds, filberts, and Brazil nuts with the speed of a commercial nutcracker. It's accented by an attractive wooden base and handle grip. Made in the USA and built to last a lifetime.

Product Description

America's finest nutcracker - Reed's Rocket Nutcracker has a unique design that cracks soft shell nuts faster, better and easier than before. The Rocket Nutcracker offers 5-star cracking action - gripping the nut firmly with 5 points of contact and giving greater power while assuring cleaner, larger nut meats. All steel machined construction with attractive wooden base and handle grip. Cracks pecans, English walnuts, almonds, filberts and Brazil nuts. Speeds up what formerly was a slow, tiresome chore. Save money by buying bulk nuts and shelling them yourself. Prepares nut meats as you need them.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Item not as pictured, December 12, 2008

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Forager "Vintner" (WI-MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reed's Rocket Nutcracker (Kitchen)

I just received this item and it is not as pictured here. The pic shows 2 screws on one side holding the mechanism to the base (I assume there are 2 on the other), what I received has only one on each side. Item pictured shows all metal parts chomed, item delivered has lower metal parts coated, not chromed. Construction is flimsy, most parts are not machined but cast or stamped, rivets holding the pivot points together are loose and sloppy. This item may be fine for cracking a few soft-shelled nuts, but in my opinion will not hold up to anything harder than the thinnest shelled pecan. I will be returning this item.

To the sellers credit, shipping was amazingly quick, but I'm still out the $6.50 they charged.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for all nut sizes, December 14, 2008

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Jeff Holland (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reed's Rocket Nutcracker (Kitchen)

I chose this nutcracker over the cheaper "Duke" version because comments on the Duke one said that the threaded cylinder could not be adjusted far enough in for small nuts. Even though this one costs twice the price, the picture shows correctly that the cylinder is longer and two-sided for different sizes of nuts. It can be used for almost any nut, large or small and is sufficiently sturdy for most. It still has some flex to it when cracking a tough nut, and I would not dare attempt a black walnut or a mockernut hickory on it because it's just not sturdy enough--very few are. But it works wonders on my smaller shagbark hickories that have completely bent my traditional handheld nutcrackers beyond recognition. Any softer, grocery-store type nut (English walnuts, Pecans, hazelnuts, etc) would surely be no problem for this nutcracker. But expect to pay more if you want something really professional that can handle black walnuts or that will last for generations.

My unit also came with the base parts painted but not chromed, unlike how the picture is shown, but that doesn't bother me.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as advertised!, December 16, 2008

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R. S. Wolfley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reed's Rocket Nutcracker (Kitchen)

Great price and it works well for our English Walnuts. I wouldn't use it on Black Walnuts, however, because I don't think it would be heavy duty enough. It adjusts very easily for varying sizes of nuts too.