Today, overseas fruits, vegetables and nuts will not surprise anyone. Although if you didn’t have to eat some of them, you may not immediately guess how to deal with them. Such exotic foods include pineapple and coconut.
Many people ask themselves the question: how to break a coconut, because it has a sufficiently strong shell that cannot be so easily chopped (as, for example, in walnuts or peanuts). Before you get to the delicious pulp will have to make a lot of effort.
And yet, how to smash a coconut? First of all, the remains of the so-called coconut milk should be poured out of it . It is worth noting that ripened coconut has a little milk, but it is impossible to open coconut without this procedure.
To get to the insides of a coconut, you need to carefully inspect it and find at one end of the pore (in the form of dark spots without fibers).
Coconut pores are easily pierced with a conventional screwdriver. Having received the hole, it is necessary to drain the milk into a container, after which you can already directly begin the process of opening a coconut palm nut.
The coconut shell has a single weak point, which is located about a third of the length of the coconut, if measured from the end where you previously made a hole. To alleviate a weak spot, the nose and the base should be determined for coconut.
The base of the coconut is fixed on a palm tree, it has a wider and flatter surface, and the nose is sharp and long. Having decided on the edges of the coconut, mentally you need to divide the coconut palm nut into three parts. If we count from the nasal edge, then the line mentally drawn along the border of the second third, in front of the third part, will be the weakest point of the nut.
Armed with a hammer (you can use an ordinary kitchen knife), we proceed to the procedure that answers the question of how to cut coconut.
On a hard surface, put a coconut palm nut and hit a weak spot with a hammer. To open the nut does not need to be infinitely beaten on it, it will be enough to clearly deliver medium-power strikes. After each strike, it is necessary to rotate the coconut around the longitudinal axis, while changing the place of impact. You can also open it, holding it on weight - hit it with an instrument and as a result of the impact the shell will become covered with cracks. After the appearance of the first crack, it is necessary to continue the action, after which the flesh will gradually move away from the shell.
In the case when the walnut shell does not give in and does not crack, then before breaking the coconut, it is necessary to tap on its entire surface with a hammer. Coconut must be broken into two halves.
When this does not help, then you should take a bag or plastic bag and put a coconut palm nut there. Then securely tie. Having found a strong surface - it can be a stone or wooden floor, a cutting board - put a bag of nuts and apply several strong blows to it with a hammer. Coconut will certainly open, although it will not look as aesthetically pleasing as with a normal procedure.
How to break a coconut very quickly and without lengthy measurements-calculations-tapping with a hammer? To do this, put it in a towel (drain the juice first according to the method specified at the beginning of the article), grab its ends in your hand and hit (hard!) Only once on a hard surface. The result will be a broken nut and pulp freed from the shell.
If not the whole shell is separated, then for a couple of minutes, place the coconut pieces in a heated oven or in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. This will separate the peel from the pulp of a coconut much easier. Finally, justice triumphed - we got chopped and peeled coconut!
It remains to quickly drink coconut milk, which is very useful and figure out which dish of coconut pulp you will please the household.