It’s white, wrapped in plastic and shaped rather like a little hut. The coconut is missing its round brown exterior so it’ll be easy to get in and take a drink. If it wasn’t easy they wouldn’t be selling it at Coles.
Try and slice the top off. Hmm, it’s very hard to cut through. Cut down from the top instead to try and take out a wedge.
Got a wedge out. It’s very brown inside. Liquid does not seem to be forthcoming.
Google it. Lots of instructions on how to get into whole brown coconuts but nothing that looks like mine.
Back to coconut. I can cut through a softer outer layer but then get stuck at a seemingly impenetrable layer of rock.
I hope I don’t wreck my best knife. Swap to a cheaper one.
I hold the knife and stab at it repeatedly like a crazy murderer going for the heart. The coconut does not bleed.
Some websites recommend a hammer. I don’t have a hammer.
Ah-ha, a website with a video working on a coconut that looks like mine!
Okay, so I need to kind of cut away the softer stuff to the hard bit until I have a circle, then wedge the heel of the knife in and lever the top off.
Trim trim trim… okay, the soft stuff is gone. Now wedge! Wedge! Come on, get in there!
Whack! Whack! Whack! Bits of coconut are flying all over my kitchen but I just can’t get in there!
Whack!
I finally stop and look at it. It smirks at me.
Whack! Whack!
Nothing.
I give up. I return to the computer.
It taunts me from the bench.
I ungive up and go back for another whack. This time I add more down-swing.
And it starts to give! Amazingly I manage to prise a circular lid off and there it is! Coconut water! Even a little bit of white flesh on the underside of the lid! I pick a bit off. Not the best coconut flesh ever but it’s there!
Wish I had a straw. Stick my pinky in and suck it. Tastes like watery coconut, missing the sugar that’s present when you buy it as a juice drink.
I upend the coconut into a plastic measuring jug, the only thing with a spout that I have. One whole coconut produces exactly 250ml of yellow-tinged liquid. Not as much as I had expected.
Pick bits of husk out of my glass. Go for a swig.
Even though it’s clear it somehow feels creamy on the tongue. It’s better without all the added sugar; softer, purer. It smells just like desiccated coconut.
I really like this!
I quietly sip away at my glass of hard-won wate. The jury is too busy enjoying the taste to decide whether it was worth the hassle.
Rating:
Specifics: drinking coconut bought from Coles, Macquarie Fields
Coconut Water
It’s white, wrapped in plastic and shaped rather like a little hut. The coconut is missing its round brown exterior so it’ll be easy to get in and take a drink. If it wasn’t easy they wouldn’t be selling it at Coles.
Try and slice the top off. Hmm, it’s very hard to cut through. Cut down from the top instead to try and take out a wedge.
Got a wedge out. It’s very brown inside. Liquid does not seem to be forthcoming.
Google it. Lots of instructions on how to get into whole brown coconuts but nothing that looks like mine.
Back to coconut. I can cut through a softer outer layer but then get stuck at a seemingly impenetrable layer of rock.
I hope I don’t wreck my best knife. Swap to a cheaper one.
I hold the knife and stab at it repeatedly like a crazy murderer going for the heart. The coconut does not bleed.
Some websites recommend a hammer. I don’t have a hammer.
Ah-ha, a website with a video working on a coconut that looks like mine!
Okay, so I need to kind of cut away the softer stuff to the hard bit until I have a circle, then wedge the heel of the knife in and lever the top off.
Trim trim trim… okay, the soft stuff is gone. Now wedge! Wedge! Come on, get in there!
Whack! Whack! Whack! Bits of coconut are flying all over my kitchen but I just can’t get in there!
Whack!
I finally stop and look at it. It smirks at me.
Whack! Whack!
Nothing.
I give up. I return to the computer.
It taunts me from the bench.
I ungive up and go back for another whack. This time I add more down-swing.
And it starts to give! Amazingly I manage to prise a circular lid off and there it is! Coconut water! Even a little bit of white flesh on the underside of the lid! I pick a bit off. Not the best coconut flesh ever but it’s there!
Wish I had a straw. Stick my pinky in and suck it. Tastes like watery coconut, missing the sugar that’s present when you buy it as a juice drink.
I upend the coconut into a plastic measuring jug, the only thing with a spout that I have. One whole coconut produces exactly 250ml of yellow-tinged liquid. Not as much as I had expected.
Pick bits of husk out of my glass. Go for a swig.
Even though it’s clear it somehow feels creamy on the tongue. It’s better without all the added sugar; softer, purer. It smells just like desiccated coconut.
I really like this!
I quietly sip away at my glass of hard-won wate. The jury is too busy enjoying the taste to decide whether it was worth the hassle.
Rating:
Specifics: drinking coconut bought from Coles, Macquarie Fields