Coconut Opener
Coconut is the most common thing noticed on streets of India. Every summer I visited my grandparents place, I used to drink coconut water everyday. Even now when I think of that scorching heat and the humidity levels in the place, one drop of tender coconut water tastes like nectar. Now, I am again into the habit of drinking coconut water almost everyday. It sure requires skill and practice to cut a coconut. Once the young coconut has been safely removed from the tree, cutting an end down so it is flat with a knife(called mocchu in kannada), and then sectioning out a center hole works well to access the juice. In young coconuts the juice may actually be under some pressure, and will spray slightly when the inner husk is first penetrated. You see many young lads doing this in nook and corner of the cities. Well, I happened to visit one of them, and in the process of doing so, this lad had a cut on his hand and it started bleeding, though not serious. Everyone around expre...