Opening Coconuts

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What is the best way to open a coconut? My mon used to use a nail and

hammer to poke holes in it and drain the water out, then bash it open

with the hammer. A book I have says to use a cleaver, which I do not

have and likely do not have the strength for that method anyway. Any

suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Diana

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This is a really great site on how to open a Young Thai Coconut.

 

http://www.rawguru.com/html/openyoungcoconut.html

 

You may have to download Flash to view the video.

 

lala

 

 

" Diana P. " <laurelai3 wrote:

What is the best way to open a coconut? My mon used to use a nail and

hammer to poke holes in it and drain the water out, then bash it open

with the hammer. A book I have says to use a cleaver, which I do not

have and likely do not have the strength for that method anyway. Any

suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Diana

 

 

 

 

 

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At Sun, 12 Feb 2006 it looks like Diana P. composed:

 

> What is the best way to open a coconut? My mon used to use a nail and

> hammer to poke holes in it and drain the water out, then bash it open

> with the hammer. A book I have says to use a cleaver, which I do not

> have and likely do not have the strength for that method anyway. Any

> suggestions?

>

> Thanks,

> Diana

>

 

I use a cleaver but it's not really the " flat " blade part of the

cleaver that does the penetration of the husk, I swing the cleaver

and use the bottom " corner " of the blade to do four penetrations,

making a four sided box. I then use the front part of the blade to

pry the top off leaving a square hole on top.

 

You can then pour the water out and have a big enough hole to put a

big spoon inside to scrape out the meat.

 

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