Coconut - how to open?

Seeing the coconut on the counter, you probably thought about how it is opened. In appearance - unapproachable fruit, but very useful and inaccessible to our latitudes. By itself, coconut contains two main food ingredients - pulp and juice. Coconut juice is an excellent thirst suppressant that is beneficial for the kidneys. The second value - the pulp of coconut - includes various trace elements, fatty oils and vitamins B and C. This is what makes this fruit particularly valuable and desirable for people. There are many recipes that include coconut. So, you just wanted to try or cook something and bought a coconut, how to open it now?

To begin with, I say that the coconut can be opened correctly and how it happened. The correct way is only one, the ways "how it happened" - a lot. Under the phrase "how it happened" is meant the use of improvised means, with a complete lack of a guarantee of preserving the juice. Also, I note that on whether you need juice or not, it also depends how to uncover the coconut. That is, if you do not crave to taste the nectar of such a wonderful nut, then one of the "barbarous" methods may suit you. Initially, we will consider them as an alternative to the correct method.

The first such method is to cut a coconut with an ax. Only do not need to do this as in the case of firewood. The fruit though seems armored, but in fact it is fragile. Pre-lay the coconut on a comfortable place for the impact and with medium strength, strike in the area of three eyes. This is the way if you have a coconut, how to open it with the loss of all the juice. In this case, in addition to losing juice, you can smear the flesh. What is not aesthetically pleasing. The method is more suitable for the situation, if you are on a desert island with a small set of tools.

You can use a house hammer and a chisel (or something similar to it). This option is more aesthetic and safe. Correctly doing everything, you not only never get hurt, but, perhaps, save the coconut juice. This way, if you have a coconut, how to open it with minimal losses of improvised means. Having well secured the coconut in a convenient place, mark the area of impact with a slight tapping on the skin. If you are unlucky and the coconut splits into two parts, then, of course, you will lose nectar. Therefore, provide for this by equipping a place for coconut. A pair of pinpoint strokes next to each other - and the coconut will crack. Then simply just slightly expanding the area of the crack, pour the contents into a container and split the nut.

The last of such ways, when there is a coconut, how to open it with improvised means gives the maximum aesthetic effect, and with proper approach to the "workplace" equipment, you will not lose a drop of juice. Having substituted a container for juice nearby, securely and tightly fix the fruit. Gently with a hacksaw start to saw, preferably near three eyes. There the peel is slightly weaker and it will be easier to crash into the coconut. After making a fairly wide cut, unfold the fruit and pour the milk into a pre-cooked container. Then secure it securely again and cut it in half. In this case, you keep everything intact, and beautiful two halves can be used for other needs (to make an article, decorate a dish, etc.).

These were all methods using improvised means. It should be noted that the version with a hacksaw gives an advantage - the aesthetics of the received shell. But back to the right way to split the coconut. To do this, take a coconut and punch two holes from the existing three. Through the hole, pour the juice into any container. It is necessary to make two holes, since one will not give you a normal yield of milk (due to pressure), and three will pour juice through them (and not through one). Next, make the last (third) hole. Then insert the knife into any of them and press. Entering the nut, the knife will make a crack between the holes. You will only have to make it wider and split the coconut into parts (usually two uneven ones).

Now after buying a coconut you choose which of the ways to split it. Choose more convenient for yourself and enjoy. Remember only about safety, because any of the methods requires the use of stabbing and cutting objects.