Messermeister Pro-Touch Plus Shellfish Opener and Knife review and price compare 2025
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Product overview
| Blade Material | Stainless Steel |
| Brand | Messermeister |
| Color | Black |
| Handle Material | Stainless Steel |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 11.5 x 4 x 2 inches |
product features
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- Shuck and serve oysters, clams and mussels with efficient controlled ease
- Made from quality, thick gauge 18-8 stainless steel that will not rust, bend, or deform.
- Dishwasher safe
- 100% Messermeister quality
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From the manufacturer
Welcome to Our Kitchen
Messermeister is a woman-owned, German cutlery and kitchen accessory company located in the heart of Ojai, California. Over the past four decades, our passion and commitment to deliver sustainable, best-in-class knives, cutlery accessories, and award-winning culinary tools are unparalleled.
Quality and innovation are in our core. The products that bear our brand, are born of a unique combination of our German engineering and California style. World renowned chefs, professional and home cooks who care about precision quality and performance choose Messermeister when preparing the food they love.
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Our Dedication to Innovation and QualityMessermeister provides quality cutlery and culinary tools to both food service professionals and home cooks. We are committed to designing new and innovative products by sourcing the world to find the very best manufacturing quality. | Messermeister's Heart is Not Only in the KitchenMessermeister supports non-profit organizations in communities where we do business and contributes to charitable causes that focus on providing food and supplies to those in need or for the purpose of education. We support these non-profits through volunteering and in-kind donations. | Aware of the EnvironmentWe pride ourselves on crafting product that are not only simple and functional but long-lasting. We choose materials that are both durable, respectful to our surroundings and use production processes that minimize and repurpose waste. |
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| Care Instructions | Hand-wash with warm water and a mild detergent; rinse and dry immediately | Hand wash only | Hand-wash with warm water and a mild detergent; rinse and dry immediately | Wipe with a damp sponge and water only | Hand wash only | Hand-wash with warm water and a mild detergent; rinse and dry immediately |
| Avoid Cleaners with Bleach or Citrus Extracts | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ |
product description
This is the shellfish knife you didn’t think you needed. The Messermeister Shellfish Opener & Knife is a specialized seafood tool for easy maneuvering around multiple types of bivalves. The non-slip handle ensures a steady grip. The wide stainless steel blade allows for extreme control and an abbreviated tip to easily separate shells. A bonus feature not standard to most shellfish knives is the protective hand guard separating the handle from the blade. Shuck and serve oysters, clams and mussels with efficient controlled ease.
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Questions about Messermeister Pro-Touch Plus Shellfish Opener and Knife
Q:
Where is this knife manufactured?
Answer: We used Messermeister exclusively in Le Cordon Bleu. It is a German blade, made from spare Wüsthof steel.
Answer: Taiwan
Answer: I believe in Taiwan
Product reviews of Messermeister Pro-Touch Plus Shellfish Opener and Knife
Crex : 1st star for fast delivery 2nd star for durability 3rd ...
1st star for fast delivery
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
dropdeadfredgreen : Oh what a great oyster opener! This will make you want to get cracking!
Hefty feel and works great for opening those li'l shells filled with yummy oysters!!! It has a nice handle which works well for my smaller hands and also my Loves much larger Man hands!
Crex : 1st star for fast delivery 2nd star for durability 3rd ...
1st star for fast delivery
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
J G : The "Go-To" Knife For The Hard Ones
As an amateur oyster gatherer and shucker on the TX Gulf Coast, this is the knife I always have on the table for the hard ones, the ones that just won't give up. It is a bit too wide, short and thick to be my main knife, but it is ABSOLUTELY essential for the hard ones. It will take all the torque you can give it.
Evgeny Shubin : Good but would pay $30 for a better metal quality = sharper blade
Bought this and for a try. Tried both with Giant Oysters only (if I'm successful to upload picture reviews, these should appear right below the "original" product images on the product page).
The cutting blade of the Messermeister product is probably two times thinner than of the Cuisinart product. Still, my friend and I found the former one still too thick to open even Giant Oysters.
I appreciate the previous positive reviews on this product. Probably the positive experience of some with "common" (ie smaller size) oysters was because the Giant Oysters' shell edge is more curvy (will try to upload the pics), whereas the "common" shell's edge is more like straight. So, you cannot insert a blade between the two part of a Giant shell so easily as you can do with "common" size oysters. Again, I only tried both products with Giant Oysters and these are my assumptions only, which may or may not fit the reality (any helpful comments are welcome).
With "fresh catch" Giant Oysters, the Messermeister product worked OK probably 30-40% of times. Important: if you can put shells in the oven (if at home) or on a fire (if in the country) - just for 3-5 mins, - they open themselves slightly. For us, the "oven" procedure improved the effectiveness of the Messermeister knife to maybe 90%. Maybe one shell out of ten would not open (at the ~60C temperature or even higher - ?), probably it means that it's "dead" for long and you shouldn't try it). Yeah - the conspiracy theory)
For the Cuisinart product, the effectiveness with "fresh catch" was lower (for it's double-thickness blade). Maybe we got success with 1 of 5 (or 20%) or 1 of 4 (25%). As we didn't find the Cuisinart product effective originally (before the oven), we didn't try it thereafter. But having seen how shells open themselves a little after the oven exercise, this should be enough for any cutlery to reach the same success rate as the Messermeister one. Probably after the "oven" exercise you even dont' need any special oyster knife - a regular kitchen knife would be enough.
Here we come to kitchen knives (my friends even tried hunting knives with Giant Oysters). The conclusion is that unless you do the "oven" exercise (see above), the blades can (or likely will -- in the case of kitchen knives) get damaged (even with brands like Gipfel).
The other choice that my friends tried is a flat screwdriver. They tried it rather by a chance, in the countryside with no alternative available. But they found screwdrivers pretty effective, probably the most effective out of the reviewed "special" oyster knives or out of the cutlery/hunting knives. But I wouldn't try these for the hygiene concerns. Guess even if straight from the shop, a screwdriver is not designed to be used with food products. A kitchen/hunting knife can - but again, the concerns are after damaging the blade (as said above).
In the nutshell, I believe that any shell-opening product must be more robust than even the best kitchen knife. This can materialise either in the thickness of the blade or in the steel quality.
I did some review on Amazon. As I've not seen anything more solid at a cheaper price than the reviewed Messermeister product, it give it 5 stars. For now. If I see anything better, I'll update my review.
Not ready to pay $16 (as of 5 Oct '13)? -yes- consider a screwdriver alternative as discussed above)).
The cutting blade of the Messermeister product is probably two times thinner than of the Cuisinart product. Still, my friend and I found the former one still too thick to open even Giant Oysters.
I appreciate the previous positive reviews on this product. Probably the positive experience of some with "common" (ie smaller size) oysters was because the Giant Oysters' shell edge is more curvy (will try to upload the pics), whereas the "common" shell's edge is more like straight. So, you cannot insert a blade between the two part of a Giant shell so easily as you can do with "common" size oysters. Again, I only tried both products with Giant Oysters and these are my assumptions only, which may or may not fit the reality (any helpful comments are welcome).
With "fresh catch" Giant Oysters, the Messermeister product worked OK probably 30-40% of times. Important: if you can put shells in the oven (if at home) or on a fire (if in the country) - just for 3-5 mins, - they open themselves slightly. For us, the "oven" procedure improved the effectiveness of the Messermeister knife to maybe 90%. Maybe one shell out of ten would not open (at the ~60C temperature or even higher - ?), probably it means that it's "dead" for long and you shouldn't try it). Yeah - the conspiracy theory)
For the Cuisinart product, the effectiveness with "fresh catch" was lower (for it's double-thickness blade). Maybe we got success with 1 of 5 (or 20%) or 1 of 4 (25%). As we didn't find the Cuisinart product effective originally (before the oven), we didn't try it thereafter. But having seen how shells open themselves a little after the oven exercise, this should be enough for any cutlery to reach the same success rate as the Messermeister one. Probably after the "oven" exercise you even dont' need any special oyster knife - a regular kitchen knife would be enough.
Here we come to kitchen knives (my friends even tried hunting knives with Giant Oysters). The conclusion is that unless you do the "oven" exercise (see above), the blades can (or likely will -- in the case of kitchen knives) get damaged (even with brands like Gipfel).
The other choice that my friends tried is a flat screwdriver. They tried it rather by a chance, in the countryside with no alternative available. But they found screwdrivers pretty effective, probably the most effective out of the reviewed "special" oyster knives or out of the cutlery/hunting knives. But I wouldn't try these for the hygiene concerns. Guess even if straight from the shop, a screwdriver is not designed to be used with food products. A kitchen/hunting knife can - but again, the concerns are after damaging the blade (as said above).
In the nutshell, I believe that any shell-opening product must be more robust than even the best kitchen knife. This can materialise either in the thickness of the blade or in the steel quality.
I did some review on Amazon. As I've not seen anything more solid at a cheaper price than the reviewed Messermeister product, it give it 5 stars. For now. If I see anything better, I'll update my review.
Not ready to pay $16 (as of 5 Oct '13)? -yes- consider a screwdriver alternative as discussed above)).
Erik : Fantastic Oyster Shucker
The blade and handle are strong giving you the confidence to dig in on those stubborn oysters. I've been quite pleased with this purchase.
Mary Hall-Ries : Best oyster knife!
After impaling myself with several inferior oyster knives, I imagined what qualities a truly perfect oyster knife would have.
Bingo! This knife has it all: a long handle with secure grip, an un-bendable super-sturdy blade, a shield so that the knife can't slip into the shell past a certain point. Perfect! Also get the Kevlar glove and you can be enjoying fresh oysters anytime you're in the mood!
Bingo! This knife has it all: a long handle with secure grip, an un-bendable super-sturdy blade, a shield so that the knife can't slip into the shell past a certain point. Perfect! Also get the Kevlar glove and you can be enjoying fresh oysters anytime you're in the mood!
ethan hunt : Three Stars
Hurt your hand like a B!
Evgeny Shubin : Good but would pay $30 for a better metal quality = sharper blade
Bought this and for a try. Tried both with Giant Oysters only (if I'm successful to upload picture reviews, these should appear right below the "original" product images on the product page).
The cutting blade of the Messermeister product is probably two times thinner than of the Cuisinart product. Still, my friend and I found the former one still too thick to open even Giant Oysters.
I appreciate the previous positive reviews on this product. Probably the positive experience of some with "common" (ie smaller size) oysters was because the Giant Oysters' shell edge is more curvy (will try to upload the pics), whereas the "common" shell's edge is more like straight. So, you cannot insert a blade between the two part of a Giant shell so easily as you can do with "common" size oysters. Again, I only tried both products with Giant Oysters and these are my assumptions only, which may or may not fit the reality (any helpful comments are welcome).
With "fresh catch" Giant Oysters, the Messermeister product worked OK probably 30-40% of times. Important: if you can put shells in the oven (if at home) or on a fire (if in the country) - just for 3-5 mins, - they open themselves slightly. For us, the "oven" procedure improved the effectiveness of the Messermeister knife to maybe 90%. Maybe one shell out of ten would not open (at the ~60C temperature or even higher - ?), probably it means that it's "dead" for long and you shouldn't try it). Yeah - the conspiracy theory)
For the Cuisinart product, the effectiveness with "fresh catch" was lower (for it's double-thickness blade). Maybe we got success with 1 of 5 (or 20%) or 1 of 4 (25%). As we didn't find the Cuisinart product effective originally (before the oven), we didn't try it thereafter. But having seen how shells open themselves a little after the oven exercise, this should be enough for any cutlery to reach the same success rate as the Messermeister one. Probably after the "oven" exercise you even dont' need any special oyster knife - a regular kitchen knife would be enough.
Here we come to kitchen knives (my friends even tried hunting knives with Giant Oysters). The conclusion is that unless you do the "oven" exercise (see above), the blades can (or likely will -- in the case of kitchen knives) get damaged (even with brands like Gipfel).
The other choice that my friends tried is a flat screwdriver. They tried it rather by a chance, in the countryside with no alternative available. But they found screwdrivers pretty effective, probably the most effective out of the reviewed "special" oyster knives or out of the cutlery/hunting knives. But I wouldn't try these for the hygiene concerns. Guess even if straight from the shop, a screwdriver is not designed to be used with food products. A kitchen/hunting knife can - but again, the concerns are after damaging the blade (as said above).
In the nutshell, I believe that any shell-opening product must be more robust than even the best kitchen knife. This can materialise either in the thickness of the blade or in the steel quality.
I did some review on Amazon. As I've not seen anything more solid at a cheaper price than the reviewed Messermeister product, it give it 5 stars. For now. If I see anything better, I'll update my review.
Not ready to pay $16 (as of 5 Oct '13)? -yes- consider a screwdriver alternative as discussed above)).
The cutting blade of the Messermeister product is probably two times thinner than of the Cuisinart product. Still, my friend and I found the former one still too thick to open even Giant Oysters.
I appreciate the previous positive reviews on this product. Probably the positive experience of some with "common" (ie smaller size) oysters was because the Giant Oysters' shell edge is more curvy (will try to upload the pics), whereas the "common" shell's edge is more like straight. So, you cannot insert a blade between the two part of a Giant shell so easily as you can do with "common" size oysters. Again, I only tried both products with Giant Oysters and these are my assumptions only, which may or may not fit the reality (any helpful comments are welcome).
With "fresh catch" Giant Oysters, the Messermeister product worked OK probably 30-40% of times. Important: if you can put shells in the oven (if at home) or on a fire (if in the country) - just for 3-5 mins, - they open themselves slightly. For us, the "oven" procedure improved the effectiveness of the Messermeister knife to maybe 90%. Maybe one shell out of ten would not open (at the ~60C temperature or even higher - ?), probably it means that it's "dead" for long and you shouldn't try it). Yeah - the conspiracy theory)
For the Cuisinart product, the effectiveness with "fresh catch" was lower (for it's double-thickness blade). Maybe we got success with 1 of 5 (or 20%) or 1 of 4 (25%). As we didn't find the Cuisinart product effective originally (before the oven), we didn't try it thereafter. But having seen how shells open themselves a little after the oven exercise, this should be enough for any cutlery to reach the same success rate as the Messermeister one. Probably after the "oven" exercise you even dont' need any special oyster knife - a regular kitchen knife would be enough.
Here we come to kitchen knives (my friends even tried hunting knives with Giant Oysters). The conclusion is that unless you do the "oven" exercise (see above), the blades can (or likely will -- in the case of kitchen knives) get damaged (even with brands like Gipfel).
The other choice that my friends tried is a flat screwdriver. They tried it rather by a chance, in the countryside with no alternative available. But they found screwdrivers pretty effective, probably the most effective out of the reviewed "special" oyster knives or out of the cutlery/hunting knives. But I wouldn't try these for the hygiene concerns. Guess even if straight from the shop, a screwdriver is not designed to be used with food products. A kitchen/hunting knife can - but again, the concerns are after damaging the blade (as said above).
In the nutshell, I believe that any shell-opening product must be more robust than even the best kitchen knife. This can materialise either in the thickness of the blade or in the steel quality.
I did some review on Amazon. As I've not seen anything more solid at a cheaper price than the reviewed Messermeister product, it give it 5 stars. For now. If I see anything better, I'll update my review.
Not ready to pay $16 (as of 5 Oct '13)? -yes- consider a screwdriver alternative as discussed above)).
ethan hunt : Three Stars
Hurt your hand like a B!
Crex : 1st star for fast delivery 2nd star for durability 3rd ...
1st star for fast delivery
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
2nd star for durability
3rd star for price considering product
4th star for customer service
5th star for ease of use
J G : The "Go-To" Knife For The Hard Ones
As an amateur oyster gatherer and shucker on the TX Gulf Coast, this is the knife I always have on the table for the hard ones, the ones that just won't give up. It is a bit too wide, short and thick to be my main knife, but it is ABSOLUTELY essential for the hard ones. It will take all the torque you can give it.
Marie van den Driesen : Good product
Strong, well made
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