Pedrini Black & Satin Basic Nutcracker

This is a simple, functional cracker. Better suited for crab. Spacing of the jaws does not fit some varieties of common nuts well.
The description is "Black & Satin". It is not. It is a single finish of "crome".

I orignally gave this a bad review, but afer further using the nut cracker, I find that it is actually okay.

The trick was to use the larger opening, AND (if you are right-handed) lay the nut cracker in the palm of you left hand. Place the nut in the opening and CUP your left hand around the nut and device. This will kept the nut centered and also keep the nut from flying.

This is a sturdy nutcracker. This nutcracker is nothing like those flimsy ones that wobble were the nutcracker is joined together and then when you try to crack a nut with them, the nut flies out of the nutcracker instead of getting cracked and then hits some unfortunate person in the head. As another customer mentioned prior to myself, this nutcracker is extremely lightweight and made quite well. It works perfectly and simply!

The Pedrini Nutcracker is well designed and functional. I have not cracked nuts with it yet, but it has done a great job on Crab and Lobster.

For a muscle powered nut cracker, this is excellent. I particularly like the fact that it is light weight. I would have given it 5 stars, but I reserve that for nut crackers that don't require my muscle (i.e., electric).