opening coconuts.
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- tank0
best website ever!!
- ian0
When I was a kid my dad used to pretend the coconut was a wee shrunken head and had a face (the two eyes and a mouth on the top) so when opening the coconut he'd make a big deal of asking me what to break first the eye or the mouth. I always got a kick out of that! Oh and give em first dibs on drinking the coconut milk.
Course I could now be a bit disturbed because of it, but it was fun at the time.
- kelpie0
I'd employ some slight of hand and cleverly switch the towel with the whole coconut in with one you have prepared earlier and then you can claim to have opened it using only the power of your mind MX. that'll impress the kid
- Raniator0
I don't mean to sound naive, but what's the big deal?
- kelpie0
FUCKING HELL ARE YOU INSANE? COCONUTS MAN, COCONUTS
- emecks0
the big deal, Raniator, is that this 4 year old kid is walking about very excited that his uncle emecks knows how to open the hairy beast and is going to open it for him. Wee guy is really looking forward to it and I don't want to disappoint.
That and last time I opened a coconut I used a Dremel and it was pish.
- Witt0
use a sword, dammit!
- Raniator0
Yeah, I get it from a 4 year olds point of view. I think. Although when I was 4, not that I can really remember, but I don't remember being concerned about coconuts, or opening them.
If it's a bonding thing, then great... coconuts? Could be anything.
But yeah, bonding with ones children, younger brothers/sisters, nieces, cousins etc, all very important.
- kelpie0
true true, use of any implement designed to kill would totally blow his wee mind.
- kelpie0
own a shotgun?
- emecks0
aye kelpie, problem is aww this is happenin in alicante, otherwise I'd let go at it with both barrels of the 12 bore for sure, they winnae let me take the sawn off on the plane though...
- rafalski0
machete
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watch your fingers.
agentfour
(Nov 8 07, 03:35)hahahaha...
I was about to write:Be a man, use a machete. Watch your thumb.
Disclaimer: I don't encourage you to use a machete to open up a coconut nor to display such technique to a child.
- cls0
Yup, i actually know how to do it the right way. Forget the hammer, towel and nails. (that is amatur stuff) I spend four months in Jamaica an they thought me the way.
Grab the coconut with the face (http://www.howtoopenacoconut.co... facing you.
Then there is a small line over the whole nut.
Give it a good smack across that line with the back (not the sharp side) of a machete (in case of no machete by hand find something else ) and the coconut wil split in two nice parts.
Be sure to hold it steady so you won't spill the milk.
Do it this way and you will sure impress the little boy.
- emecks0
I'll do it that way next time cls, cheers!
The chisel impressed him enough yesterday :)
- ian0
Disclaimer: I don't encourage you to use a machete to open up a coconut nor to display such technique to a child.
rafalski
(Nov 8 07, 03:51)hahaha! That should be a warning sticker on the coconuts in tescos!
- emecks0
anyway, thanks a hunner wan and aww.
- OBBTKN0
Alicante?
Ask to anybody how they open alemendras and multiply the power x 100.
obviously
- madirish0
ideal:
- vice
- #8 nail
- hammerpl;ace in vice and then pound nail into nut w/ hammer. take it slow and listen for the crack on sides perpendiculor to vice mount points. when it is getting 'thick' sounding, remove from vice and place on ground and continue. try not to crack all the way open in halves as the milk is what you want.