Until relatively recently, the overwhelming majority of the population of our country saw coconuts only on TV screens and enthusiastically dreamed of trying coconut milk, reading about how delicious it is in the novels of Mine Read and Jack London. Some of the curiosity was quenched after the Bounty chocolate bars began to appear on the market. Their unusual taste gives an idea of coconuts, but it is still far from it.
With the development of supermarket chains, coconuts appeared on the shelves, from where they naturally moved first to the carts, and then to the houses of the Russians. And here the problems started. About how to open a coconut at home, few people have a clue. Having first tried to pick a shell with a knife, you can quickly come to the conclusion that such a delicate tool cannot be opened for anything in the world, even if you sacrifice this very knife. The next tool that logically comes to the mind of every Russian person is an ax. Knowing how to open a coconut at home, we can safely say that the ax is quite suitable as an "opener". But using it in a city apartment can entail partial damage to the floors, as well as, more sadly, the limbs.
Artful Russians offer to use a drill, followed by popularity is a saw, then a chisel and a hammer. Desperate to find out how to open a coconut at home, many unlucky shoppers simply beat them to the floor or against the wall with all their might. As a result, coconut can actually crack, fill the floors and walls with its famous milk, and pieces of hard shells will scatter throughout the house.
But there are more gentle methods. Let's find out how to open coconut at home quickly and without losing expensive content.
First you need to learn how to choose coconuts. To begin with, in fact, the fruit of the coconut palm has nothing to do with nuts. It is called so simply by habit. Since Europeans are simply not used to such a firm peel of fruits. The coconut shell is actually a peel, the milk is an endosperm, and the flesh is a seed. The longer the coconut lies on the shelf of the supermarket, the more it dries out, and when stored in a damp room it can become moldy. In order not to get such a spoiled fruit, before buying it, you need to carefully inspect it from all sides in search of traces of mold, smell it and shake it a little. If the splash is different inside, then feel free to buy.
Now about how to open a coconut at home. Inspect it carefully. See three dark spots on its surface? From here it is also necessary to begin to act.
Try digging them with a knife or a large nail. You can do this quite easily. Two holes are enough and the third spot can be left alone.
Coconut milk is drained through them
. Do not be alarmed if, instead of a thick white stream, a clear liquid spills into the set-up cup. That is exactly what it looks like. It would be more logical to call it coconut juice by analogy with birch juice, but it happened historically.
Now we pass directly to how to open a coconut. The photo shows what a hammer is needed for this. Also grab a towel. In a towel, you wrap coconut so that shell fragments do not scatter throughout the house.
Put the wrapped fruit on the floor and hit it with a hammer. Coconut will open guaranteed. You can choose juicy pulp from it, and make exotic saucers or ashtrays from large fragments of shells.