How to open a hard-shell coconut

Coconut shells are relatively hard. If you don’t eat coconuts often, you often feel helpless when faced with a hard coconut shell. In fact, opening a coconut shell is relatively simple. It requires certain skills, such as using a coconut opener. You can also use a hammer or a blunt knife to easily open the coconut shell so that you can drink the delicious coconut juice inside.

How to open a hard-shell coconut

1. The simplest method: the hammer method

How to open a coconut shell How to open a coconut shell

1. Use a screwdriver to make a hole in the eye of the coconut, and then pour out the coconut juice.

2. Then put the coconut in a plastic bag, place it on the floor, and hit it with a heavy hammer.

3. Although it is not Thor’s hammer, it is also invincible.

2. Hitting with a blunt knife

1. Hold the coconut in your palm and place it over a bowl. After opening, the remaining coconut juice will flow into the bowl.

2. Pay attention to the surface of the leaf, through the natural gaps between the three eyes, aim at the "equator" of these leaves, and hit hard with the blunt edge of a heavier knife. While hitting, turn the coconut with your hand so that the knife can hit in a circle.

3. Keep beating until the coconut is completely separated. As long as you tap it accurately, after a few turns, the coconut will be divided into two equal halves.

But this is too dangerous and can easily hurt your hands. It’s not fun.

3. Ape-Man Dharma

1. If you don't have a heavier knife, hold the leaf in your hand and hit it against a hard surface, such as a step or something raised, and the hitting position should be along the natural "equator" of the leaf.

2. Just like the apes before the invention of stone tools, they kept smashing and smashing until finally, the ape grinned and the coconut shell cracked.

4. Ice and Fire

1. Use a metal barbecue fork to pierce the eye of the coconut and pour out the coconut juice.

2. Place the leaves in the oven and bake at 90° for about 15 minutes. Or you can put it in the freezer for 15 minutes.

No matter what method you use, the skin and flesh inside the leaves will loosen up - who can resist ice and fire?

Tip: When the coconut juice is still inside and the coconut is completely unopened, do not bake it in the oven, as it will explode and fall to pieces.

3. Hold a coconut in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other. Hammer along the "equator" of the leaf.

4. Finally, it opened crisply.

5. Now you can easily take out the coconut meat - because of the ice and fire steps above, the flesh is completely loose.

Of course, not everyone has a hammer or oven at home, so the following method is even simpler.