How to eat a Coconut?

The Coconut is one of nature’s most nutritious foods, has been highly valued by people of the Pacific Islands and Asia for centuries. Although it’s high in saturated fat, it’s also vitamin rich, full of amino acids, protein, magnesium, potassium and fiber, and is every bit as delicious as it is healthy. According to many, it is the “water that goes straight to the heart”.

Eating a coconut is a learned skill, and anyone can become an expert with a little instruction. Just practice the following steps and you will soon be a master when it comes to how to eat a coconut.

First of all, coconuts are literally hard as a rock. That means that unless you are chef and totally experienced in the use of a sharp knife, don’t try to open your coconut with a knife. Instead, head over to your toolbox and get a hammer and a nail. With the hammer method, you should start by locating the end of the coconut that has what look like three little eyes.

Open up two of these three holes by pounding the nail into them with your hammer. Let the coconut water out by pouring it into a glass or a bowl. Next, start looking for a line that begins at the top of the coconut and runs all the way down to the other end. Your hammer is the perfect tool to use to pound on that line all the way around the coconut. The coconut will then fall apart, breaking into two halves. Sometimes it takes more than once around with the hammer for the coconut to break open. Some of them can very stubborn but eventually you will have a coconut split down the middle.

Then, take your knife and start to cut the white coconut meat off the shell. This is the part of the coconut you are going to eat. You will be amazed at how good a fresh coconut tastes, especially if you have been eating processed shredded coconut for your whole life. Coconut isn’t just for dessert either. You can make all types of complete meals using coconut.

Now you know how to eat a coconut. But chances are at least one of you out there is wondering what to do if you have a coconut and no hammer and nail. Then, all you need to do is find the hardest object you can find and whack your coconut against it until it breaks. This could be almost anything surface–your front steps, a railing, counter, wood pile or concrete block.