How to Open a Coconut Quickly and Easily into Two Halves
Forget about piercing the eyes of the coconut. Forget about wrapping it in a towel and whacking with a hammer. It’s just time consuming and you may end up with a ton of small fragments. Here’s how the experts do it:
You will need a cleaver (big knife) and bowl. - Hold the coconut over a bowl in the palm of your hand facing upwards
- Whack the coconut with the back of the cleaver a few times all around the center, rotating it a few times, until it cracks open cleanly into two halves
- Catch the juice in the bowl as it drains
Watch here How to Make Pro-biotic Coconut Water Kefir: To create a wonderful fizzy, sour, champagne-like drink, teaming with beneficial microflora, add a packet of Kefir Starter to coconut water and leave to ferment in a glass preserve jar. Kefir contains many nutrients, including Vitamins A, D, K, B2 and B12, plus the minerals calcium and magnesium, amino acids and enzymes. Kefir has been shown to: - Reduce sugar cravings
- Improves the digestion of all foods
- Contains potassium, calcium, and magnesium
Preparation: Use one packet per litre of coconut water and leave to ferment in a glass preserve jar at around 24 degrees C for 36 hours. A small amount saved from each batch can be used to make a new batch and so on, up to seven times. We recommend using Zico Natural Coconut Water See the official Body Ecology site on how to make coconut water kefir
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