one skilled in the art will recognize that a flat plate hydraulic press can be replaced with a rotary press or other mechanical means to continuously feed the nuts in a monolayer configuration and apply pressure to expel the oil because of the pressing step the nut kernel is compressed and deformed into a flattened shape in this step the kernel is reformed into its approximate original shape this is illustrated in fig3 fig3 a represents the original nut kernel fig3 b represents the flattened kernel that was deformed by pressing and fig3 c represents the reformed or reconstituted nut kernel a nut kernel resembles a sponge it is not uniformly solid instead it comprises cells that contain mostly fatty oil and some water said cells being interspersed within the nutmeat when a nut is squeezed the oil and water are expelled from the cells and the nut deforms however a nut kernel is different from a sponge in that it lacks the resilience possessed by a sponge therefore when compressed a nut kernel remains in its deformed state unless it is reconstituted reconstitution is done by filling the empty cells with water after the deformed kernels leave the press they are contacted with hot water.