How do nut manufacturers get the nuts out of their shells?

okay - this is a serious and true answer!



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How do nut manufacturers get the nuts out of their shells?
If I remember right, they are super cooled then run through a nitrogen chamber to saturate them internally with that gas and then quickly brought back up to room temperature so that the gas expands faster than it can seep back out through the shell which causes the shell to 'blow apart'....
Reply:hey shark I was going to say that, but hey that is how they do it
Reply:Yep. Squirrels
Reply:Nutcrackers
Reply:squirrels you seen charlie and the choc factory havent you
Reply:Cranberries, someone else asked this exact question a few months ago.

For a comprehensive answer to this question, look up December 2005 Scientific American. Or it was a month close to that. They gave a thorough article on all the different types of machines and processes that are used to get out all the different types of nuts.