How do you open a coconut? A few practical ways to open a coconut
For people who don't live where coconuts grow, getting a coconut probably means racking your brains over how to open it. Actually, once you know the trick, opening a coconut is easy. Let's take a look below at how to open a coconut!
How do you pour out the coconut water?
1. Put the coconut on a flat cutting board and find the coconut's 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 a coconut by tapping with a dull knife
1. Hold the coconut in your palm and place it over a bowl, so that after it is opened 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 at these coconuts' "equator" and strike hard with the dull edge of a relatively heavy knife, turning the coconut with your hand as you strike, so the knife can tap around in a circle.
3. Keep tapping until the coconut splits completely. 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 relatively heavy knife, hold the coconut in your hand and smash it against a relatively hard place——such as steps or something with a protrusion. The spot you smash is still along the coconut's natural "equator".
2. Just like the cavemen before the invention of stone tools, keep smashing and smashing like this. Finally, the caveman grins, and the coconut shell breaks.
Opening a coconut with a hammer
1. From the coconut's eyes, pierce through 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.
3. Although it is not Thor's hammer, it still conquers all.
The ice and fire method
1. Pierce through the coconut's eyes with a metal roasting fork and pour out the coconut water.
2. Put the coconut into the oven and bake at 90°C for about 15 minutes, or put it in a quick freezer for 15 minutes. 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 randomly, or it will explode in a shower of pieces.
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 take the coconut flesh out very easily, because of the ice and fire steps above, the flesh has completely loosened.