The Test Kitchen: How to Crack a Coconut – Gourmet Magazine
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Food editor Ian Knauer demonstrates how to extract fresh coconut meat—all you need is a little heat and a hammer. Eat it plain or use the coconut meat in Indian Shrimp Curry- www.gourmet.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
November 17th, 2011 - 18:13
theres 2 other ways to open or crack a coconut
1st thru the hole put a dinamite into tht nd blast (boooooooooooooooooooooooom) there u go coconut meat
2nd take tht coconut out side nd use ur damn .9mm pistol , carfully pull the triger there u go COCONUT
lmao
November 17th, 2011 - 18:43
awww look at its face (O mouth ) OoO lol soo cute
November 17th, 2011 - 19:43
20 minutes to open a coconut???
November 17th, 2011 - 20:12
Great …. Thanks
November 17th, 2011 - 21:09
i put coconut to tea towel and smash it agains the ground or wall… works perfectly
November 17th, 2011 - 21:40
easiest way to crack a coconut is to cut inside the soft eye with scissors and apply pressure on the outer shell from the inside and comes off like a charm.i never cracked a coconut before but guess im a natural
November 17th, 2011 - 22:25
got mine on the firs eye but the juice was fuckin oily like most of the cheap ass mexican coconuts i get im getting quality ones, fucking mexico
November 17th, 2011 - 23:02
go damn, i just spent 20 minutes in my backyard using a corner of the brick wall =/
November 17th, 2011 - 23:54
This is very inefficient. In the time it takes you to puncture the eye and drain the coconut, you can crack open several coconuts by using the blunt side of a cleaver around the middle — just hold it over a bowl to catch the liquid. In Thailand in the markets they crack a coconut open in about 7 seconds with a machete.
November 18th, 2011 - 00:40
I have been told I eat food weird. I guess I open bananas backwards, I eat a kiwi with the skin and now I just ate the skin of a coconut, lol I learn something new every day. I just used a pointed screwdriver and a small axe to open mine or you could just get chuck Norris to yell at the thing.
November 18th, 2011 - 01:08
@ZavorXS I just threw my coconut down the stairs after letting the milk out. Worked wonderfully
November 18th, 2011 - 01:36
@princeicio Agreed. Fresh, uncooked is best. More delicious and more nutritious.
November 18th, 2011 - 02:07
Forget the oven.
1 – Screwdriver
2 – Hammer
3 – Knife
4 – Peeler
November 18th, 2011 - 02:31
me and my nan tryed this and it didn’t work at all getting the milk out workd but not the oven part
November 18th, 2011 - 03:17
I once threw a coconut down the stairs. It cracked open, but then everything was drenched in coconut water. If I only had known that one of the three “eyes” can be poked…
November 18th, 2011 - 03:36
Hot? I don’t think so cold is much better
November 18th, 2011 - 03:37
not three eyes actually they’re two with a mouth as well!
November 18th, 2011 - 03:42
just smack the coconot in a circular direction around the coconot vertically. jeez
November 18th, 2011 - 04:20
haha
your smile at the end made my day 
November 18th, 2011 - 04:34
a coconut peeler will work also in less than 20mins.
November 18th, 2011 - 05:33
Thank you
November 18th, 2011 - 06:08
His head just resembles a coconut !!
November 18th, 2011 - 06:21
If it’s sweet and coconutty it’s good lol
November 18th, 2011 - 06:53
@gunut4 lol my dad took a hammer to it and it took ten minutes to get the sucker open!
November 18th, 2011 - 07:05
@anoopkashyap07 Thanks for sharing how cool you are. We’re all really impressed with your 20 second coconut opening skills. I wish you idiots would quit talking about the Indians and how they do it. Are you saying I should go out a grab a rock to open up the coconut so I don’t disappoint the Indians??? The other reason for putting it in the oven is to make getting the meat out easier. If you can only criticize a video with a stupid comment go do something else with your miserable life