> can anyone tell me the best way to open a coconut so i can use the
> shell to serve a drink in??? help!!!!!
First look at the top for two small intentations and puncture both with a nail
or heavy knife, then drain the liquid.Take a very heavy cleaver(the kind a
chef will use for butchering) and smack the top about 1/2 inch below the
pointed end,in an upward angle.This takes practice you'll probably ruin a few
before you get it down.Soaking the coconuts in water for a hour or so first
helps to prevent the coconut splitting and holding it in a vice also helps.I
would not reccomend doing this behind the bar as pieces can fly every
where.you can buy a small grinder (by drexel) will a cutting edge that will
work but it leaves sawdust on the inside.
Dennis