Help break a big hard coconut!

Maj. TightAss · 03-01-2003 2:04am #1

Today, a friend of mine brought me back a present from her holiday in Hawaii - a fecken coconut (she thinks it's hilarious). So here I am, 7 hours later, staring at this hairy rock - the problem is I've never figured out how to open one of these things without spraying myself with coconut milk.
Any ideas?

sceptre · 03-01-2003 2:16am

Drill. Let milk drain out then use a nice clean knife (or a saw:D)

Handier than a hammer and chisel.

Alternatively just hand it to a five year old - they seem to be able to break anything.

phaxx · 03-01-2003 2:20am

Yup. Drill two holes, and use a straw, or pour it out.

_sheep · 03-01-2003 2:25am

Im sorry i just expected something different when i clicked the link on the main page for here.

"Help break a big hard coc......"

Had to comment on it

, oh yus, drill a hole

po0k · 03-01-2003 6:29am

"Help break a big hard coconut"...combined with "Maj. TightAss" to it's right.....had me thinking along totally differnt lines to this.

yes, like phaxx said two holes[/i] like you do in vinegar bottles that don't give you a built-in sprinkler.
One to let the actual vinegar out and one to balance the pressure inside the bottle.

I remember the first year we got one.
Took a hatchet to it.
What fun that was, I can tell you!
Especially when the mother came home.....
I still bear the scars.

yellum · 03-01-2003 8:11am

Strong vice, sledgehammer, goggles.

the Guru · 03-01-2003 12:47pm

a machette and hack at an angle away from yourself

Thats how tarzan did it

or go with the Drill

Tazz T · 03-01-2003 3:53pm

Support coconut on 4 sticks of dynamite. Light. Stand back and enjoy the refreshing taste of fresh coconut milk on your face.

Gordon · 03-01-2003 4:12pm

There are three indents at the top, you should be able to drill a small hole in two of them with a pen knife easier than the coconut shell.

I suggest cooling the coconut in the fridge as warm milk isnt the nicest I find.

Maj. TightAss · 03-01-2003 6:18pm

Thanks for the responses - I drilled two holes to drain it and then used one of the holes to get the knife stuck in.

Kastro · 03-01-2003 7:39pm

well i was gonna mention a bit o semtex but now that your sorted lol..

rymus · 03-01-2003 7:56pm

did ya think of doing a reinactment of the sledgehammer & watermelon bit on the Ed Sullivan show? "Haeohhhhhhhhhh"

superconor · 03-01-2003 9:58pm

isnt coconut milk a natural laxative?
dont go crazy mate

Tails · 03-01-2003 10:14pm

When i got a fresh one from under a tree, i spent a day trying to get into it! well that could have been due to the fact that i only had a penknife!:p .

Well how i done it was i used the jagged blade to get the out side off then that left me with the "inner" coconut and there was a soft point at the top of it. so i used the cork puller to screw my way into it! and hey presto i was able to get the juice out of it, but than i got fed up and threw the rest of it away.

Snowball · 03-01-2003 10:24pm

if u have one of those big kichen chopping knives u can use the bit that sicks out just at the handel and kinda hachet it, that bit of the knives will get anything.

Drills are really mankey, think what ppl drill and then stick that in ur mouth?

Thorbar · 03-01-2003 10:30pm

You could always ask your dentist for a loan of his drill

Help break a big hard coconut!

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