5 Nut-Cracking Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

5 Nut-Cracking Gadgets Tested By Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious



Design and usability guru Dan Formosa returns to evaluate and improve upon 5 gadgets designed to crack open nuts. Watch as he tests each device, putting …

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  1. If this guy was to ever buy the rights to any of the gadgets he's reviewed and sold them with the modified improvements he showed in the video I would search the world to purchase it

  2. I would like to see how a hand crank nut cracker designed like a rock crusher would work.
    A pair of corrugated jaws, one vertical and stationary, the other curved and on connected off axis to the axel on a cam so it moved forward and down as you cranked.

  3. It took me watching every video in this playlist up to this point over the course of a few months to connect that the DESIGN experts name is Dan FORMosa

  4. Nooooo noo no no nooooo. If you need a nut cracker I have three words. Channel. Lock. Pliers. A decent pair of channel locks have more than enough leverage for even relatively weak hands to use, and because you can adjust how far they are able to fully close, you will never ever pulverize the nuts you crack. You can set them to barely crack the shell before biting any deeper.

  5. Yes give that huge cracking Maschine a curve. So they have to bend the 2mm short piece of steel which would increase the production cost only by 6 times or so.

    If this thing now costs under 80$ it’s probably a bargain, but who would buy it at 200$?

  6. It's difficult to crack an almond when you lay it flat, that's probably why the dome doesn't work for almonds. With the mallet you should hold the almond on it's edge to crack it. In my experience it should work better.

  7. I’ve got something that’s basically the same thing as the nut chopper, except it’s from something like the ‘60s or ‘70s. I find it does the job just fine. After all, while companies with machines may make precisely sliced slivers of nuts, consistent sizes aren’t that easy to create at home, anyway—there’s almost always a batch of little bits that break from the walnuts or splinters breaking off from almonds.

    The best part about it is that it chops the nuts and keeps everything contained. And this newer version seems to have the added benefit of emptying into a graduated container so you know how much you’ve chopped.

  8. The fact that he performs so many "non dominant hand" tests removes the value of the non dominant hand test, doesn't it?
    Now the real question, what is the best product for cleaning oil off of your left hand?

  9. He said for last one evenly chopped so can evenly chop any nut is same size and same weight with his bare hands
    I felt like I kind of like this guy but he deliberately cheated the last one so blocked and banned from any further recommendations

  10. I love the sentence…..; its purpose in life is……with the knowing that most of the produced crappy stuff ends up in a landfill in less than a week or disappears in a drawer and being thrown away sooner or later. What a miserable short lives…….

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