how to break a coconut without any tool

Today I will show you how to break a coconut without any tool

Now when you going down to the store
and buy coconut its already riped
out of the husk for you. But out on an island
if you stranded like you are on castaway
you have to get through the husk
in order to get to the coconut

But these husks are deceivingly tough they take an enormous amount of energy to rip through

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and so if you are in a survival situation trying to conserve energy


the last thing you want to do is burn it all up trying to get to your source of food

*grunts*

So here's a little method I've played around with to crack these things open using as little energy as possible


When you give your coconut a good shake you should be able to hear the water sploshing around inside


if you don't hear anything it's either choked full or completely empty


and you can tell that by the weight of the coconut itself


now when you look at the coconut you will notice it kind of has a sharp pointy end on one side

and a blunt end on the other

and what we're gonna need to do is smash the top so we crush the fibres, and peel this thing apart


if we tried using rocks to chip at this we would be chipping all day


and we are not strong enough to pry this open with our fingers


what we actually need to do is crush the fibres and make them weak enough

so that we can pull them apart with relative ease
and the easiest way to do that is by using gravity

now if you are on an island like I am, all you need to do is come down to a rocky part of the beach


set your coconut upright on a hard surface and surround it with other rocks


and then grab a rock that is about as big as you can lift on your own


raise it 4 feet high and throw it straight down into the top pointy part of this coconut.(picture:4)

and it might take a few tries to really get the fibres broken up so throw that rock as many times as it takes until you actually physically see the strands of coconut starting to bust loose

*grunts*
Whoo!

So you can see after two smashes with a heavy rock how there is busted lines down this husk


that is a very good sign, it is already weakening the structure


and now if we turn it over and give it one more good smack from the bottom side

it should be enough crack that

so instead of spending hours peeling away at this thing we can let gravity do the hard work for us

sweet
thats looking pretty good!

so at this point i can feel this has softened up quite a bit

and look at that it just peels right apart

that's exactly what i was going for right there

so it took three hits with the rock
two on the top, one on the bottom

and now it is to the point where we can just peel this off

almost like husking corn

it is not difficult, doesn't take a lot of energy

and there we have it
there is our coconut (looks tasty!)

needs a little bit of a haircut, but in essence that is what we are after right there


and the rest of this husk makes really great fire tender, for starting your survival fire

there it is!

so i just gave our coconut a little bit of a haircut and you can see now


this is what they look like in the stores... Don't they?


which is already where the hard work has been done for you


now we need to just find a sharp rock that we can bang this against and crack it open


which shouldn't be to difficult on a big rocky beach like this


now to get inside our coconut there is a cool trick we can use that involves these three dots on the face of coconut


and if you think of it as a face, you can see two of the dots look very similar were gonna call those the eyes


the other one is a little bit odd shaped and we are gonna call that the mouth


now if you split the eyes and follow it straight up the back, you will see a hard ridge line


and if you stop right in the center, that is the place that we need to smack very hard against a rock


so find a rock with a nice sharp edge and set your coconut so that your line is perpendicular to it


and what we are going to do is give it a nice crack right in the center of the coconut

and it should split a line right across the center
*cracking sounds*

see on the photo how cleanly that break splits the coconut open there

*cracking sounds*
*cracking sounds*

and now if we just put our fingers into that line and pull back


we can pop it open and salvage the water from our coconut

as easy as that
Mhmm
That's good stuff

So there you have it guys! If you are ever stranded on a desert island and need to survive on coconuts! (Crazy right?)


There is a quick an easy way to get the nutrition you need


Thanks for joining for this experiment, and i will be looking for you in the next video!

Talk to you then!
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Multi-Purpose!
Aw dude one shot! Look at that!

With the green coconut all the milk just cracks right out!


There's not even a shell thick enough to withstand it!