Comments on: How to Open a Coconut http://laurenlavoie.com/food/339 A blog Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:33:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: shyam http://laurenlavoie.com/food/339/comment-page-1#comment-218867 shyam Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:49:23 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/food/339#comment-218867 I followed through to this blog via a link on Bea's blog, and couldn't help responding to this coconut entry. Using a happer is a pretty bad idea (and I know because I grew up cracking coconuts :-) Best thing is to use the blunt edge of a cleaver (a type of knife) and hit the coconut along and around the belly. Several steady and strong blow like this will start to crack it and then you can use the same knife to open that up. With a bit of practice, you can have the coconut cracked in two perfect halves. Makes it easy to use a coconut grater like the one at the link below as well ... http://www.coconutty.co.uk/coconut-grater-p-53.html?osCsid=7f1c361935e00056ed7c603f84ca480a I followed through to this blog via a link on Bea’s blog, and couldn’t help responding to this coconut entry. Using a happer is a pretty bad idea (and I know because I grew up cracking coconuts :-) Best thing is to use the blunt edge of a cleaver (a type of knife) and hit the coconut along and around the belly. Several steady and strong blow like this will start to crack it and then you can use the same knife to open that up. With a bit of practice, you can have the coconut cracked in two perfect halves. Makes it easy to use a coconut grater like the one at the link below as well …

http://www.coconutty.co.uk/coconut-grater-p-53.html?osCsid=7f1c361935e00056ed7c603f84ca480a

]]> By: Dan Shapiro http://laurenlavoie.com/food/339/comment-page-1#comment-196421 Dan Shapiro Tue, 12 May 2009 04:39:47 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/food/339#comment-196421 I once used a tablesaw. Works great - you set the blade depth so it goes through the outer shell, but not the meat. Be careful since if the saw catches it will send the coconut flying at very high speed and something could get severed... I once used a tablesaw. Works great – you set the blade depth so it goes through the outer shell, but not the meat. Be careful since if the saw catches it will send the coconut flying at very high speed and something could get severed…

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