How do you open a coconut?
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boohoo
No.
This is what I did.I then roasted the flesh with a little salt. Tasty snack
That sounds lovely!!!
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Holes, one for the liquid and one for air so the liquid comes out easily. Then hit with hammer or drop onto paving slab
Not had fresh coconut for aaaages.
in point of fact, a coconut is not in fact a nut. so lobbing one off a balcony would not be anything like nuts either as no nuts would be involved.
HTH HAND
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Y_I_Otter
Dangerous Terroirist
Back when I was still a purist and still made my own coconut milk/cream, I'd take the power drill and make four holes in a square pattern roughly 2 cm apart and use a punch to make an opening (this is easy to do if it's in a vice). Then I'd drain the thing. Once emptied, I'd crack the shell with a hammer in a few places and bake it at 275 F for 3/4 of an hour or so. Then I separated the meat from the shell, put pieces of it in a blender and poured in a 1/2 litre or so of hot water, then strained everything through a jelly bag for coconut cream. For coconut milk, I'd repeat the process and add it to what I'd already strained, plus the contents of the coconut. The strained pulp went to the pigs or chickens.
It's more environmentally sound to buy coconut cream in cans, I think. While it does have to be transported from very far away, the product is ready to use and cheap as muck, compared to making one's own. I never did like coconut meat very much (except maybe in my mom's macaroons). I think coconuts are imported by the people who manufacture dental floss.
It's more environmentally sound to buy coconut cream in cans, I think. While it does have to be transported from very far away, the product is ready to use and cheap as muck, compared to making one's own. I never did like coconut meat very much (except maybe in my mom's macaroons). I think coconuts are imported by the people who manufacture dental floss.
The definative answer:
Find the soft eye from the three at the end.
Stick a corkscrew/skewer through it, and drain the liquid out into a glass.
With a heavy knife, chop through the three ridges running around the body of the coconut.
Keep chopping the ridges in turn, until it opens.
Tada!
And you get coconut shell halves to make horsey sounds with at the end of the process!
Find the soft eye from the three at the end.
Stick a corkscrew/skewer through it, and drain the liquid out into a glass.
With a heavy knife, chop through the three ridges running around the body of the coconut.
Keep chopping the ridges in turn, until it opens.
Tada!
And you get coconut shell halves to make horsey sounds with at the end of the process!
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
When we were kids, a coconut was a whole evening's entertainment.
1) Use a hand drill to drill into the holes at the top and drain the milk
2) Drink coconut milk
3) Using a hacksaw, cut the cocunut into two equal halves
4) Remove coconut flesh
5) Eat coconut flesh
6) Spend rest of the evening running round the house banging empty shell halves together making comedy horse noises!
1) Use a hand drill to drill into the holes at the top and drain the milk
2) Drink coconut milk
3) Using a hacksaw, cut the cocunut into two equal halves
4) Remove coconut flesh
5) Eat coconut flesh
6) Spend rest of the evening running round the house banging empty shell halves together making comedy horse noises!
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
This Thread reminds me about my earliest coconut memories. We had one coconut a year at my Grandparents at Christmas time which looked a bit like this:
To open the coconut you had to first put a poker on the fire and use it to burn holes in two of the three dots. To achieve this you needed to heat the poker several times. Then the milk/water was drained and you put it in a plastic bag and smashed it up with a hammer.
These days I still have one a year, at carnival looking like this:
By the time I get these someone with a nifty machete technique has deftly hacked it open.
This thread has made me acutley aware of my generation. If I told one of my friends kids about this I would sound like my parents talking about oranges as an exotic Christmas treat in the bottom of their stocking.
To open the coconut you had to first put a poker on the fire and use it to burn holes in two of the three dots. To achieve this you needed to heat the poker several times. Then the milk/water was drained and you put it in a plastic bag and smashed it up with a hammer.
These days I still have one a year, at carnival looking like this:
By the time I get these someone with a nifty machete technique has deftly hacked it open.
This thread has made me acutley aware of my generation. If I told one of my friends kids about this I would sound like my parents talking about oranges as an exotic Christmas treat in the bottom of their stocking.
Good grief.
I hadn't posted on here because I presumed someone'd posted the right answer in no time flat!
Good lord.
a) take large knife.
b) hold coconut in hand.
c) turn knife backwards. So the BLUNT bit is facing down.
d) repeatedly strike coconut with moderate force on the mid-point. So's the knife is - in effect - falling on and lying along the 'equator' of the coconut.
e) turn the coconut whilst doing this, so that you're striking all around the middle with the blunt back of the blade.
There will be a bloody obvious 'crack' point. When it suddenly rings dull. At this point, hold over bowl. Couple more gentle taps, milk will flood out. Into the bowl you're holding it over.
Once all milk has drained, keep on going with the back of the blade around the middle. It'll naturally fracture into two passable halves.
I hadn't posted on here because I presumed someone'd posted the right answer in no time flat!
Good lord.
a) take large knife.
b) hold coconut in hand.
c) turn knife backwards. So the BLUNT bit is facing down.
d) repeatedly strike coconut with moderate force on the mid-point. So's the knife is - in effect - falling on and lying along the 'equator' of the coconut.
e) turn the coconut whilst doing this, so that you're striking all around the middle with the blunt back of the blade.
There will be a bloody obvious 'crack' point. When it suddenly rings dull. At this point, hold over bowl. Couple more gentle taps, milk will flood out. Into the bowl you're holding it over.
Once all milk has drained, keep on going with the back of the blade around the middle. It'll naturally fracture into two passable halves.
ajk
that's a shame
1) Use a hand drill to drill into the holes at the top and drain the milk
2) Drink coconut milk
Coconut water.
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Pfff. That is clearly a modified and inferior version of my method.
Get the liquid out first, then open it. And you only need to chop the ribs/ridges out.
