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La cassée de noix

English translation: shelling of the nuts

11:40 Jun 17, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Agriculture / Walnut oil production
French term or phrase: La cassée de noix
C'est le début de la cassée.

This is a line in a programme about walnut oil production in France. I can't find the equivalent English term.
Unbounded Arts
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:03
English translation:shelling of the nuts
Explanation:
https://www.wikihow.com/Extract-Oil-from-Walnuts#Shelling_th...
this is the first operation
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Raoul COLIN (X)
Local time: 06:03
Grading comment
Thanks to all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +4shelling of the nuts
Raoul COLIN (X)
4 +3walnut shelling
Carol Osborne
5 -1nutcracker
Eugene Efremov


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
nutcracker


Explanation:
nutcracker or nut mill

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Note added at 15 мин (2019-06-17 11:56:32 GMT)
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mill for nuts - https://www.nutmachines.com/nuts-grinder/colloid-mill-for-nu...


    https://ru.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20190617035444&SearchText=nut+cracker
Eugene Efremov
France
Local time: 06:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  philgoddard: This doesn't fit the context or justify a 5.
11 mins
disagree  Madeleine van Zanten: If anything similar, it should the cracking not the cracker!
23 mins
agree  Ali Sharifi: Cracking the nuts.
1 day 47 mins
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
shelling of the nuts


Explanation:
https://www.wikihow.com/Extract-Oil-from-Walnuts#Shelling_th...
this is the first operation

Raoul COLIN (X)
Local time: 06:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thanks to all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Madeleine van Zanten
8 mins
agree  Louise TAYLOR: Shelling the nuts is the fist step. I do this every years with my French neighbours, they give me a bottle of walnut oil in return.
38 mins
agree  writeaway
4 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
22 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
walnut shelling


Explanation:
If it refers to the whole process of cracking and shelling, I'd go for shelling.

This site has a different machine for each process (cracking and shelling): https://www.food-machines.org/nut-processing-machinery/walnu...






Carol Osborne
France
Local time: 06:03
Native speaker of: English
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Carol. I agree, but Mr Colin mentioned 'shelling' first. I already knew they were called walnuts.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexandra Speirs: Shelling, also for making walnut liqueur such as nocino in Italy
1 hr
neutral  writeaway: so you agree with Mr Colin's answer?
2 hrs
  -> with the context given, nuts is too general.
agree  Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
8 hrs
agree  B D Finch: Agree with "walnuts" and this is a neater way of phrasing it.
1 day 4 hrs
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