Quite often those who bought a coco for the first time face a question as it is easy to open a coco. The doubt is that it is easily possible to cope with a coco, the thick nutshell protecting gentle pulp of a fruit causes. There are several ways how quickly to open a coco. However after several tests you, most likely, stop on one – volume which will be most convenient for you.
How to open a coco in house conditions?
For the use it is necessary to choose a fresh ripe coco. The stale coco will have dry pulp and bitterish taste.
Before opening a green coco, it is worth preparing the capacity and the kolyushche-cutting tools. It is worth noticing that only the green coco has juice. In process of maturing, juice gets thick, becoming similar to sour cream and cream on consistence. At a brown coco juice becomes dense as butter, and then in general firm.
In the European supermarkets it is possible to get only the hardened cocoes with the become numb shell. Fresh green nuts are stored not for long, but easily open by means of a machete. Pulp of fresh cocoes can be scraped out a spoon. It has pleasant gentle taste and a jellylike state. The hardened pulp it is necessary to cut off, rub on a grater or to gnaw.
The got milk should be drunk at once as it is almost not stored.
Now in many supermarkets the cocoes prepared for opening are on sale. At such fruits the peel is smoothed slightly out.
Before professionally opening a coco, the fruit should be washed up carefully. After that it will be necessary to remove a milk from a coco. For this purpose it is necessary to find more pointed part at a coco. On it it will be possible to see three small dark stains is places to which the nut shank was attached. These points also are the most vulnerable. Take a pricker or a needle and puncture in these parts nut. It is possible to insert a plastic tubule into holes further and to drink milk directly from nut. Or it is necessary to incline nut and to merge contents in the prepared capacity. As the milk follows not completely at once, it is necessary to leave it inclined and to allow liquid to flow down.
After from a coco all milk follows, it is possible to start its opening. For this purpose use such methods:
- Put a coco in a clean plastic bag. Then take the hammer and strike several times a fruit. At the same time not only the shell, but also pulp will crack. Therefore if there is desire that coconut pulp had more attractive appearance, it is necessary to strike with the hammer a coco accurately. As soon as on a fruit there is a crack, it will be necessary to take a knife and to saw a coco in half.
- Take a house drill and accurately puncture with the working drill a coco. Of course, for this purpose a certain skill is required too.
- This way more difficult and that successfully to seize it, will be required to open not one nut. This method more is suitable for those who look for how accurately to open a coco. Take a fruit in not leading hand and define its cross middle. Recede about 3 cm closer by that end to which the shank was attached. After that take a massive knife and strike it with the back across a fruit in this place. If the blow is correct, then the small accurate crack will appear. It is necessary to place in this crack superficially a knife and, having turned it, to accurately pull down nut. After that in hands there will be an intact nut and two whole halves of a shell.
The intact shell can be applied to production of souvenirs, caskets, candlesticks.
If to seize this method of opening of a coco, then it is possible to surprise with its help guests before feeding them with coconut pulp.