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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 267.1 | How to do it | MARIAH::WILKINS | Dick Wilkins, Sub Sys Eng CXO | Wed May 21 1986 11:16 | 20 |
| There is really no clean/neat/easy way. This is how I did it as
a kid (a native of Miami with them growing in my yard).
1. Take a saw and cut into the external surface 1-2 inches all the
way around and then using any type prying tool, carfully remove
the husk. This is the hard part. Don't cut into the nut.
2. Take an ice pick and poke out the two eyes in the nut and pour
out the coconut milk (drink ice cold, nothing like it).
3. Take the nut and throw firmly against the nearest solid concrete
wall or sidewalk until throughly cracked.
4. Pry open the nut with screwdriver or similar. The using the
screwdriver or or other slim tool, separate the nut meat from
the inside of the nut shell.
5. Enjoy!
If the coconut is correctly ripe this will all work fine.
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| 267.2 | Crack the nut Hawaiian style!! | NY1MM::MDRESNER | Mark Dresner | Wed May 21 1986 12:17 | 18 |
| I saw an easy way to crack the nut in Hawaii...
Running around the outside of the nut is a ridge or line of sorts.
If you hit the nut with a hard object (in Hawaii they used a rock
shaped like an axe head) like a hammer, the nut will split NEATLY
into two pieces.
I have tried this and it works...
By the way the nut breaks *so* neatly you could break open a bunch
and make them into a set of salad bowls :-)
-Mark
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| 267.3 | Whoops.. | NY1MM::MDRESNER | Mark Dresner | Wed May 21 1986 12:19 | 8 |
| Whoops.....
Forgot to say that you hit the nut ON the line running around it!!
Sorry.
-Mark
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| 267.4 | Bake it first. | FURILO::BLESSLEY | | Wed May 21 1986 17:18 | 10 |
| Remove liquid by nailing (or choose you favorite weapon) a couple
of holes and draining.
Bake for about a half hour at 350 degrees. Crack by whatever method
works - the "meat" should separate from the shell with little effort.
(At least, that's the theory!)
-Scott
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| 267.5 | how to tell a GOOD cocunut? | CAD::RICHARDSON | | Thu May 22 1986 12:47 | 7 |
| Yes, Scott, it's a good theory...
On the other hand, once you do get the meat out and toast it, it is
FAR superior to grocery-store coconut in the little bags.
Does anyone know how to tell a good coconut from one where the milk
is fermented inside? Fermented cocunt milk is REALLY AWFUL.
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| 267.7 | | PNEUMA::MASON | The law of Karma has not been repealed. | Fri May 23 1986 12:12 | 7 |
| Re .1
How can you tell if a coconut is ripe? I guess this goes along
with the question about the milk being fresh.
****andrea****
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| 267.9 | Indian way. | NAC::E_JESURAJ | | Mon Sep 12 1988 16:27 | 32 |
| I had fun reading most of the replies.
Back in India, one of the essential ingredient is Coconut (this
is the correct spelling).
How to break it into two pieces?
Hold the coconut firmly in your left palm, with the middle finger
covering one of the eyes of the coconut, and hit it with a hammer
on the vedges. Keep rotating the coconut after each hit. We should
be able to break it with 3 or 4 hits. Once you see a crack, you
can get the coconut water into a glass (to drink it later) then
hit the coconut hard, and it will break into two pieces for sure.
Once you remove the coconut from the shell, you can even freeze
the coconut. To thaw it, just soak the frozen pieces into hot water
for 5 mins.
How to buy a good coconut?
Select a coconut with lots of water. Shake the coconut well
and feel it. There should not be any cracks on the shell.
Hope it helps.
- Elizabeth
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| 267.10 | Where can I buy frozen shreded coconut ?? | SERPNT::SONTAKKE | Vikas Sontakke | Fri Sep 23 1988 10:41 | 6 |
| Some of the supermarkets carry frozen shreded coconut. My sister
bought us some from Virginia. If you have seen that prodcut in any of
the supermarkets around New England area, please post the name here.
Thanks,
- Vikas
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