{"id":8644,"date":"2016-02-04T21:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2016-02-04T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:04:47","slug":"oxo-nut-seafood-cracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/oxo-nut-seafood-cracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxo Nut\/ Seafood Cracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A handful of nuts everyday is the key to health.<\/p>\n

In my childhood, our snacks were mostly dryfruits- apricots, figs, walnuts, cashews , pistachios. It was great fun trying to crack open the walnuts from their shell. SOmetime we would hammer them and the more dexterous of us would break it by holdingit in the door hinge and closing the door slightly. The pressure would make the walnut shell crack open. Those were fun days.<\/p>\n

Oxo has made life simpler with its strong shiny Nut\/ Seafood Cracker.<\/p>\n

Made from solid steel, this cracker has a terrific non slip grip that lets you hold on to the walnut or pistachip shell or even to crab shell and crack them. The cracker itself is good looking and is\u00a0 highly polished and has soft touch finger grips and overall create the impression of quality, solidity and durability.<\/p>\n

The jaws are narrowest at the hinge to\u00a0 accommodate\u00a0 small nuts like pistachios, while walnuts can be inserted at the far end towards the handle.<\/p>\n

It has a substantial weight, looks nice and shiny and what I liked best is the non-slip soft grips that make it easy to use- so you apply pressure to the nuts\/ seaood rather than breaking your knuckles.<\/p>\n

I made a lovely Beetroot salad<\/a> especially for the walnuts that I cracked with this nutcracker. Try it- it’s really special.<\/p>\n

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To get your own Nut\/ Seafood cracker, hop over to the OXO website or Amazon.
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