Today, overseas fruits, vegetables and nutsyou will not surprise anyone. Although if you don’t have to eat some of them, you can not immediately guess how to handle them. These exotic foods include pineapple and coconut.
Many people ask themselves the question:how to break a coconut, because it has a strong enough shell, which is impossible to split so easily (like, for example, a walnut or peanut). Before you get to the delicious pulp will have to make a lot of effort.
And yet, how to break a coconut?First of all, you should pour out the remnants of the so-called coconut milk. It is worth noting that ripe coconut has little milk, but it is impossible to uncover coconut without this procedure.
To get to the insides of a coconut, you need to carefully examine it and find at one of the ends of the pore (in the form of dark spots without fibers).
Coconut pores easily break throughscrewdriver. After receiving the hole, you need to drain the milk into some container, after which you can directly begin the process of opening the coconut nut.
Coconut shell is the only weaka place that is located about a third the length of a coconut, if measured from the end in which you had made a hole. To alleviate the weak spot, the nose and base of the coconut should be identified.
The base of the coconut is fixed on the palm, ithas a wider and flat surface, and the nose is sharp and long. Having decided on the edges of the coconut, you mentally need to split the nut of the coconut palm into three parts. If you count from the nose edge, the line, mentally drawn along the border of the second third, before the third part will be the weakest point of the nut.
Armed with a hammer (you can use a regular kitchen knife) we proceed to the procedure that answers the question of how to cut a coconut.
Put a nut on a hard surfacecoconut palm and hit the weak point with a hammer. To open a nut it is not necessary to beat it endlessly on it, it will be enough just to strike blows of medium strength. After each strike, you must rotate the coconut around the longitudinal axis, while changing the place of impact. You can also open it by holding it up on weight - to hit it with a tool and as a result of a blow of the shell it will be 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 nut shell does not give incracks, then before breaking a coconut, it is necessary to tap on its entire surface with a hammer. Coconut must break into two halves.
When this does not help, then you should takebag or plastic bag and put coconut 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 with a hammer on it. The coconut will surely open, although it will look and not as aesthetically pleasing as with a normal procedure.
How to break a coconut very quickly and without longmeasurement-computation-hammering? To do this, put it in a towel (drain the juice according to the method indicated at the beginning of the article), take his ends in his hand and hit (hard!) Just once on a hard surface. The result will be a broken nut, and the flesh freed from the shell.
If not all the shell is separated, then for a couple of minutesPlace pieces of coconut in a heated oven or in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. This will separate the peel from the coconut pulp much easier. At last justice prevailed - we got chopped and peeled coconut!
It remains to quickly drink coconut milk, which is very useful and come up with what dish of coconut pulp you will please the household.
