Since I had multiple hands clamped with the conventional metallic nutcrackers especially with small nuts, it should be a new. The way I knew from friends and had therefore ordered me this model. The processing is in my eyes very well and the nuts have with little effort to crack. The shell remains in the mouth and will not be distributed in the area. A tiny flaw there: If you simply times stores shortly distribute to the part about the nuts, mushroom rolls sometimes quite uncontrollably through the area. Otherwise, in my view top. Prices I have not been compared, from the feeling but also favorable to the quality