Today on the shelves of supermarkets are flaunted a variety of overseas fruits and various exotic fruits. Among this variety, you can find affordable and very useful specimens, for example, coconuts. However, not all of us can properly cleanse this fruit, which is why many refuse such an acquisition.
Cleaning a coconut is really not the easiest procedure, and for this case you will need such serious tools as a hacksaw for cutting metal or a hammer. And, of course, directly a mature coconut.
How to choose a mature coconut
Before you learn how to properly clean a coconut, you need to know how not to be mistaken with the choice of a suitable, mature nut. To purchase the "correct" coconut, follow the following recommendations.
- Remember that there should be no cracks on the surface of the fruit, choose a fruit with a smooth shell, without irregularities.
- Inspect the fetus for leaks of coconut milk: the swelling will indicate this.
- Shake coconut, in the middle of the nut should be felt the movement of juice, a nut without milk is best not to buy.
Well, after a successful choice, you can begin to clean the cherished fruit.
How to peel a coconut
Usually, to peel a coconut, apply one of two methods.
The first version of assumes complete shell removal. To this end, you need to take the hammer in the right hand, and keep the fruit in the left. Then, turning the nut in your hand, tap it with a hammer. Be careful not to injure the brush and fingers. Gradually, the fetal shell begins to become covered with cracks, the splintered pieces need to be removed and continue the procedure until you have a shell-cleared fruit in your hands.
After this, the coconut must be pierced with something, so that the juice that is inside is drained through the formed hole. The liquid( coconut milk) should not have an acidic odor. Ready-to-drink juice can be drunk, biting it with a cool fragrant coconut flesh.
The second method of cleaning will have to spend more effort, but as a result we get a nut, split into two halves. Coconut shell after such cleansing can be successfully used in the farm, for example, to feed from it in a catfish aquarium or to grow a room flower in this capacity. It can also become an element of homemade pots.
To clean the coconut in the second way, it is necessary to pierce its shell to form a hole, and to merge the milk. After that, the fruit is sawn in two using a hacksaw so that the result is two even halves. You can also move slightly to the top when cutting. In this case, it is not so easy to get the flesh of the fetus, but the result is worth the effort!