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[Olwen the Odd]

I believe that the best way here is to use a hammer.  However, the nationals in PNG
use the back of a bush knife...used to scare the heck out of me.  I always worried
that they would cut me, someone standing behind them or themselves...but I never saw
even the kids hurt themselves!  They would hold the nut in their hands and whack it,
then turn it around on the same line and whack it again...continuing this until the
nut broke into neat halves!  Guess that shows what practice'll do for you!

Kiri

"Mark.S Harris" wrote:

> Kiri said:
> > I did forget about one "weird gizmo" that I have.  It's a board to which a kind
> > of hook-shaped piece of metal has been attached.  The outside edge of this piece
> > has teeth filed into it.  It's used to "grate" the meat from inside a coconut.
> > You sit on the board, with the metal piece in front of you, then take half a
> > coconut and grate the meat from inside the shell.  It sounds weird, but it's
> > very efficient.  It is used extensively in Papua New Guinea for this purpose,
> > and was made for me by my houseboy when I lived there.
>
> I sometimes see coconuts in the grocery here. What is the best way to
> 'open' a coconut to get at the inside? A big hammer? A saw? Does
> it vary depending upon whether the coconut is green or brown and
> hairy (I assume the last is ripe or past ripe and the former is
> not, and probably not available in my area). Do the brown hairy
> ones have coconut milk in them or it is just 'meat' by then?
>
> I was going to ask whether coconuts were known in period in Europe.
> Then I looked in my nuts-msg file and found that, surprisingly to me,
> they were.
>
> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net
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