How to open up a coconut for water

This is the easiest technique for opening up a coconut. Copied from the natives in Tahiti. Coconut water is full of nutrients.

[ricespana]

EXCELLENT! Exactly as he says. The more solid your surface the better. The sharper the knife the better. You have to give it a good strong chop! The harder the more successful. I was amazed at how easy it was. Thank you for this video!

[Msgrimsteppa]

would’ve took me an hour to open this coconut until i watched this video, did it in less than a minute lol thanks! 🌴 🥥

[Nia-rwls]

Thank you! I ordered one coconut online and was wondering how to open it at home since its outer shell was very hard. I would have thrown it in dustbin if it was not for your simple trick video!!!

[ChunmaiRoo]

Wow thanks for this video. By far the safest way and the fastest!! Never thought I’d be looking on YouTube “how to open a coconut”.

[Choppop]

One of the best videos on YouTube. 10/10 thank you.

[nardiaforsyth]

This just saved me so much time, thank you!

[효빈-gc]

Thank you so much!! So helpful and straight to the point 🥰🥰

[JessyNycole]

I didn’t have a big enough knife, but I still was able to do it just by hitting it over and over on the four sides. It was so My first time cracking a coconut!!! Thank you much! 🙏🏼

[zenkoz]

Another pretty effective method for getting a split going is drilling a good medium sized drywall screw through it. After that you can insert the most sturdy knife you have as far as possible and give the new combination of knife and coconut a good solid whack onto something harder than the coconut (blade pointed down obviously) and you should be right in 👍

[iwx]

I can't get accurate with the knife and also thanks, I was hacking at it the wrong way

[ItsaMarioLova]

Um..mine has a hard hairy brown shell around it

[michellec]

Nope, I just hit through the white soft shell.😅

Tip:
1) remove the white soft rind/shell on the top of coconut
2) then maybe make those 4 cuts, BUT they are too small in hole result to scoop out the flesh after drinking. You also want to inspect your coconut flesh for goodness (if pinkish, through out) and this hole is too small.

Tip
3) remove top white soft layer, exposes a round hard shell.
Hit the corner of your cleaver into lowest exposed shell and pry open. Nice big round opening, perfect for inspection and scooping out.

I really had a hard time with this tiny rectangle method as my knife did not go all the way through. I had to hammer my knife top first into hard shell all four sides and that was dangerous.

[pusmblb]

i just used a hammer for the last step