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Eloi Goulhot's Mallet-Based Walnut Cracker

By Rain Noe - August 26

in Food | Tools & Craft

Walnuts are extraordinarily tough nuts to crack. Here in the 'States, we used to do it with a lever-based contraption…

…but in France, they simply used a mallet. French product designer Eloi Goulhot recently built on that, adding the principle of a deadblow mallet to design his own version:

This was apparently a self-directed project, but I bet if Goulhot chooses to pursue it, a manufacturer will bite.

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kent murphy

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Brilliant. All the bits that shatter and spread all contained, and easily shaken out onto a dish.

The knotted cord keeps it all together, and looks nice, but, if you wanted to clean it out, the cord might be troublesome to untie and then fit the cord back in the hole and then re-tie the short cord, so, maybe, something more functional could be used. But, super useful and clever.

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