How to open a coconut at home without losses and with minimal effort

Still relatively recently, the overwhelming majority of the population of our country saw coconuts only on TV screens and with ecstasy dreamed of trying coconut milk, reading about how delicious it is in the novels of Mein Reed and Jack London. Some part of curiosity was satisfied after chocolate bars "Bounty" began to appear on sale. Unusual taste of them gives an idea of coconuts, but it's still far from it.

With the development of supermarket chains, coconuts appeared on the shelves, from where they naturally moved to carts and then to Russian homes. And that's where the problems started. How to open a coconut at home, few people have a concept. Having tried to dig a shell with a knife to begin with, you can quickly come to the conclusion that you can not open it with such a delicate tool for anything in the world, even if you sacrifice this knife. The next tool that logically comes to mind for every Russian person is the ax. Knowing how to open a coconut at home, you can safely say that the ax is quite suitable as an "opener". But using it in a city apartment can cause partial damage to the sexes, and also, more sadly, the limbs.

Crafted Russians suggest using a drill, followed by a saw, followed by a chisel and a hammer. Desperate to find out how to open a coconut at home, many unlucky buyers just beat them with all their might on the floor, or on the wall. As a result, the coconut can really split, filling the floors and walls with its famous milk, and hard shell fragments scatter throughout the house.

But there are more gentle methods. Let's find out how to open a coconut at home quickly and without losing valuable contents.

To begin with, you need to learn how to choose coconuts. To begin with, in fact, the fruit of a coconut palm has nothing to do with nuts. He is called so simply out of habit. Since the Europeans are simply not accustomed to the so hard peel of fruits. Coconut shell is actually a skin, milk - endosperm, and flesh - a seed. The longer the coconut is on the supermarket shelf, the more it withers, and when stored in a damp room it can become moldy. In order not to get such a spoiled fruit, before buying it, you should carefully inspect it from all sides in search of mold traces, sniff and shake a little. If there is a splash inside, then buy it safely.

Now about how to open a coconut at home. Examine it carefully. Do you see three dark spots on its surface? That's where we need to start acting. Try to screw them with a knife or a big nail. This you will be able to do fairly easily. Two holes are quite enough and the third speck can be left alone. Through them, coconut milk is drained . Do not be frightened if instead of a thick white stream a transparent liquid will pour into the cup that has been set. That's exactly what it looks like. It would be more logical to call it coconut juice by analogy with birch, but it happened so historically.

Now go directly to how to open the coconut. The photo shows that you need a hammer for this. And grab a towel. In the towel you wrap the coconut so that the fragments of the shell do not scatter throughout the house.

Put the wrapped fruit on the floor and hit it with a hammer. Coconut will be revealed in a guaranteed way. You can choose from it a juicy pulp, and from large shell fragments make exotic saucers or ashtrays.