{"id":41672,"date":"2023-11-22T16:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41672"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T23:43:27","slug":"grandpas-goody-getter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/grandpas-goody-getter\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa\u2019s Goody Getter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We live on a 7-acre property in Connecticut with a bunch of black walnut and shagbark hickory trees. For years, the nuts have confounded us as they are near impossible to crack. We\u2019ve resorted to hammers, but it\u2019s a messy and explosive business and rarely leaves the nut meat intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, my wife bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpasgoodygetter.com\/\">Grandpa\u2019s Goody Getter<\/a>, which is a neatly designed press, made of nicely painted steel with user-replaceable springs and parts. It cracks even the hardest hulls of the notoriously challenging black walnut.It\u2019s expensive, but we\u2019ve broken more cheaply made nutcrackers and it\u2019s made in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware, though, as picking nuts becomes deeply addictive. My kids (6 and 3) have been having a blast picking and eating the hickory nut meats (which are milder than the black walnuts but to my palate tastier than pecans). The tool also nails a very particular mechanical aesthetic, which doesn\u2019t hurt either! It comes with a pair of excellent shears for clipping the newly cracked nut hull to extract even bigger pieces, and I only regret not getting a few extra pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toughest Nut Cracker <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39,12,26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41676,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41672\/revisions\/41676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}