How To Open Young Coconuts At Home - Gourmet Vegetarian Kitchen

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How to Open Young Coconuts at Home? Opening young coconuts is not only a “man’s job.” Any woman can do it easily, and I can show you how!

Fresh coconut water is the favorite drink when I go back to Thailand. I have to make sure to drink a lot of it, as It’s so refreshing and always makes me feel good.

Oh, how I wanted to be able to drink it at home in the US!

For years, I dreamed about having fresh coconut water instead of canned, but it never happened. No matter how much I wanted, I wasn’t able to. Opening young coconut was just too intimidating

As I love drinking coconut water so much, I bought packs and packs of it canned. One day, when I didn’t feel good about having so many cans to recycle anymore, I thought about drinking it from fresh coconut again.

Since young-fresh coconuts are not difficult to find nowadays and we can get them in most grocery stores, I gave it another try!

That time, I bought a fresh coconut and tried opening it. I carefully used a small serrated knife to shave of the white pulp, and used a small clean axe’s sharp edge to cut it.

It was a little bit awkward but I did it, and I used that method for a while before I exchanged the axe for a cleaver. Using a cleaver to open it is so much easier and I can do it more often now. 

However, I have to admit it’s not easy or cheap. Fresh-young coconuts are more expensive than canned.  That fact makes me wonder how can they sell it so cheap–I still don’t know!

Ever since I learned how to open young coconuts at home, we stopped buying any canned coconut water. When we really want to drink it, we buy fresh-young coconuts and open them on our own.

Are you ready to drink fresh coconut water from young coconuts at home. Let me show you how.

Things you need:

1. Young coconuts
2. A big knife (cleaver)

Instructions:

1. Cut the husk down to the hard shell.
2. Use the sharp bottom edge of the cleaver to cut the shell around the coconut.
3. Now, use the top sharp tip of the cleaver to break the shell open.
4. Enjoy this naturally healthy drink!

Note: make sure to discard the pulp and keep the work area tidy, this way you can focus on working carefully with the cleaver.

Have you opened a young coconut at home? Please share it with me–I’d like to hear about it!