Oh, how beautiful in the advertisement of a chocolate bar, promising paradise pleasure, the coconut is cracking! So you want to bring yourself home the same and split to make coconut milk in one direction, the shell in another. This, of course, is a joke, it is unlikely that someone wants to split a coconut into smithereens.
So, how to properly split a coconut at home? Probably, you need to arm yourself with a bunch of sawing tools, get a hammer, a hacksaw, and a hatchet from the pantry, for the sake of fidelity. Well, then just just consistently apply all of them, you look something and come out. Undoubtedly, if you act as described above, coconut will split from you, but the results are unlikely to be satisfactory. Therefore, we read the advice of professionals who know exactly how to correctly and quickly break the coconut, and act accordingly.
How to split a coconut?
- It does not matter what kind of fruit or vegetable you brought from the store - you first need to wash everything, here we go with coconut too.
- Do you see three dark eyes on the wide part of the nut? Well, in place, at least two of them need to make holes. What do you mean, why? Do you remember how a coconut is fundamentally different from a walnut? Size and taste, this is of course yes, but the main difference - inside the coconut there is liquid, the so-called coconut milk. That's to merge it, and we'll need to screw holes in the coconut. Why do you need to make 2 holes? Everything is simple, one drains the liquid, and the other helps the air get inside the nut. If you do not believe me, try to drain the coconut milk through one hole - an extra waste of time you are provided. Than picking holes? You can drill them with a drill, or you can take a screwdriver, put it to the place where we'll make a hole, and hit it a couple of times with a hammer. Choose the method yourself, depending on the preferences and the set of tools at home. When the holes are ready, drain the liquid and proceed to the next stage of the coconut shell assault.
- Here, too, we will have to retreat somewhat from television standards, that is, we will not prick the coconut with a pointed throw about the floor or wall. First we need to determine the weak spot of the nut. Do not be skeptical, it is also in this giant. Search for a place that can give slack, start from the holes through which coconut milk was drained (drunk). We divide the distance from the eyes to the "top" of the coconut into three parts. At 1/3 of this distance (if viewed from the holes) and is the weakest point. We hit it with the blunt side of a knife or with a hammer, only carefully. Then just turn the nut, and again strike.
So do until the crack appears in the coconut. At especially lucky it can be formed already after the first impact. Now in this crack insert the tip of the knife and split the coconut to the end. If the nut caught in the literal sense of this word is strong, then help with a hammer, tapping it lightly on the back of the knife. And most importantly, before you make all these manipulations with the knife, make sure that the knife is big and sturdy. And then you risk to get instead of two halves of coconut, two halves of a knife.
Well, actually, that's all, now you know how to split a coconut and understand that this is nothing complicated. As professionals say, it's a matter of technology, and many years of hard training.
What to do after the nut is split? Do not you know? Well, for some reason you opened it. For example, you can plan a coconut shaving and decorate your next culinary masterpiece. And if you do not want to part with a shaggy shell, you can attach it to an ikebana or a pot for a small (very small) cactus.