In the quasistatic compression test, whose result was not significantly different from the predictions from the Hertzian model, the shell split and scattered at nut failure. In comparison, the nut merely cracked in the manual or the drop-weight experiment and the shell was further removed from the kernel with additional impact. Therefore, the magnitudes of impact in the compression test (agreeing with mechanical nutcracker) should be higher than for the drop-weight experiment (approximation of manual cracking) as was the case in this report. Hence, observations in this respect are in agreement with practice.