How do you open a coconut? Simple methods for cracking open a fresh coconut

For those who don't live in coconut-producing regions, if you get your hands on a coconut, you'll probably rack your brains trying to open it. In fact, once you've got the knack, opening a coconut is actually quite easy. Let's take a look together at how to open a coconut!

How do you pour out the coconut water?

1. Place the coconut on a flat cutting board and find its weak spot——one end of the coconut has three soft eyes, which you can drill through with a Phillips screwdriver. If that doesn't work, take a hammer and a long nail and make a hole in these eyes. Make sure the coconut won't slide around, or you might hurt yourself.

2. Pour the coconut water out of the opening into a bowl. You can drink it or use it for cooking and so on. Of course, you can also just drink it with a straw.

Open the coconut by tapping with a dull knife

1. Hold the coconut in your palm and position it above a bowl, so that after it opens, the remaining coconut water inside will flow into the bowl.

2. Note the natural seam on the coconut's surface that runs between the three eyes. Aim along this coconut“equator” and strike hard with the dull edge of a fairly heavy knife, turning the coconut with your hand as you tap so the knife can strike all the way around.

3. Keep tapping until the coconut splits completely apart. As long as you strike accurately, after a few rounds the coconut will split into two equal halves.

The caveman method for opening a coconut

1. If you don't have a fairly heavy knife, just hold the coconut in your hand and smash it against a harder surface——such as a step or something with a raised edge. The spot to hit is still along the coconut's natural“equator”.

2. Just like cavemen before the invention of stone tools, keep smashing and smashing. Finally, the caveman grins broadly: the coconut has cracked open.

Opening a coconut with a hammer

1. Pierce through the coconut's eyes with an awl, then pour out the coconut water.

2. Next, put the coconut in a plastic bag, place it on the floor, and strike it with a heavy hammer.

The ice and fire method

1. Pierce the coconut's eyes with a metal barbecue skewer and pour out the coconut water.

2. Put the coconut in the oven and bake it at 90°C for about 15 minutes, or put it in the freezer for 15 minutes instead. Whichever method you use, the flesh inside the coconut will loosen because of it——under ice and fire, who can resist! When the coconut water is still inside and the coconut has not been opened at all, never put it in the oven and bake it carelessly, or it will explode in a shower of fragments.

3. Hold the coconut in one hand and raise a large hammer in the other. Hammer along the coconut's“equator”.

4. Finally, it opens with a crisp crack. Now you can easily take out the coconut flesh, because the ice and fire steps above have loosened it completely.