Opening Green Coconuts (video)

[Pict]

This afternoon my kids asked me to open a few green coconuts so we shot a video of how to do it.

Here at home I use a coconut tool. If I was headed to a wilderness area that had wild coconuts or I owned a yacht I would definitely take one along as it makes the job much easier. I also used the 14 inch Tramontina Bolo to split them, which is the main use for this blade in the Pict household. Mac

OPENING GREEN COCONUTS

 

[Lithril]

Excellent, cheers for that. Have to say I was cringing at the beginning when you were cutting towards your leg and hand

 

[andy_e]

Green coconut rocks. In Barbados they have stalls beside the road where they sell bottles of freshly cut coconut milk and plastic bags full of the "meat" or jelly as they call it. Or you can buy a fresh green coconut and they'll cut it open in front of you and give you a straw I was there last March with family and drank the stuff every day, chilled it makes a great mixer for the local Rum too

 

[Prophecy]

Lol - 'We do actually feed him'.

Brilliant video - thanks!

 

[Pict]

We had fun yesterday putting that together. Being able to edit video significantly improves my parenting skills! My kids love bushcraft. When Daniel is bored he says, "Dad lets go out in the back and make fire."

Green Coconut water is extremely good stuff for thirst quenching but you run the risk of overdoing it and getting some loose activity in the intestines. The water is like a hydration drink. We always have a sack of them here at home. Mac

 

[Rebel]

That special knife is good. Never seen one of those before.

Where I lived they just used a machete. Never did it myself, I always had a vendor open it up for me.

Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcw4Fvc5hoA&feature=related

 

[Pict]

I have seen that done in person on lots of streets and beaches. The thing is if you mess up you get to hear a finger or two hit the floor.

That little coconut tool saves alot of grief when you have to open several for the family. My daughter can open them herself with that tool. There's no shortage of machetes here but I only use them to split the nuts in half. Mac

 

[Rebel]

I have seen that done in person on lots of streets and beaches. The thing is if you mess up you get to hear a finger or two hit the floor.

Hey, why do think I got the vendor to do it!

 

[Jared]

A design for one of them coconut tools won a invention programme over in australia a few years back, http://www.cocotap.com/.

Though I'm not too sure on this method..

Looks like possible stigmata wounds in the making.

 

[canadianwildman]

You guys are lucky to live in warm a country

 

[Pict]

I do miss walks in the snowy woods and four years of hunting season in a row. Then again I don't have to scrape my windshield either. Mac

 

[Ketchup]

I was teaching fish technology at a FAO course in Kavieng, PNG in 1989.
I remember an excursion when we were on a nearby island, studying sea cucumber "trepang" smoking, when my local PNG colleague said: "You thirsty?" He rushed up the coconut tree we were resting under, came down with about 4 green nuts and then opened them for us (the flbaergasted Europeans) using only his bare teeth.
Now there's bushcraft for you!