QI | What's The Best Way To Open A Coconut?
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This clip is from QI Series P, Episode 14, 'Pathological' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Ed Byrne, Rhod Gilbert and Sindhu Vee. - Zábava
Bob Mortimer could just tear it apart with his bare hands
Brian Blessed would have just shouted at it. Instant shredded coconut.
lolatomroflsinnlos I get that reference
that was an excellent would I lie to you.
My sister can do the same thing that Bob does with apples.
@@carrotcakecat So can I.
I gotta respect that they had prepared all these tools to open a coconut "properly" but she just cracked it open with one hand 😂😂😂
Jonic_P oh my GOD, IT’S LIKE WE WATCHED THE SAME VIDEO OR SOMETHING!!! Insane, right?!?!?!?!?
They didn't even show the tools. It's obviously a scripted segment. They probably didn't even have them, just said they did.
She's like "lol, white people" *_SMASH_*
@@veidro A smart arse without the smart is just an........right?
Like a boss!
No idea why but I love the phrase "then your Mother gives you a tight slap".
Deco Dolly you haven't experienced it then
You may have mother issues
Aquarium Gravel what're you on about? It was a joke.
@Aquarium Gravel Sindhu was just making a joke and I was solely talking about the phraseology. I'm absolutely not getting into a discussion about how other people raise their children 😲
Oh, I heard "Dyke slap" as she gestured toward Sandi. Lol
i just love that "no no" when sandi mentions tools
"What's the best way to open a coconut?"
Twat it really hard on the floor.
Twat? Hmmmm
Twat means something different in the UK.
Same as a Terry’s Chocolate Orange
@@kay6096 Twat means something different in the UK. , well, yes :) but it does work in the sentence ...Twat it really hard on the floor.
@@kay6096 yes, but it was still used correctly here. Multiple meanings my friend
I love how matter of fact she is about it, stand up, step down, crouch and smash, job done!
Bosch
@@PianoKwanMan Robert Bosch
@@triv1 Hieronymus Bosch
Sindhu is a rockstar! she opened the coconut and explained everything so beautifully
He?
@@treyjetson5320 2020, remember?
She is a she
What a cooool lady.
At 0:47, when Sindhu shook to coconut beside her ear, it was a dead giveaway that she knew what to do. Had she heard splashing, she'd have known that the coconut wasn't ready to be cracked open.
You're supposed to hear splashing.
If there's no splashing the coconut has probably gone bad(there's a hole somewhere that allowed it to dry out, and also let microbes in, it'll be moldy).
Yea according to the internet you want splashing to know if its good to eat or drink.
you can literally see her putting her hand under the cracked coconut to dot drip water all over and then dangles her hand to air dry it .. haha
There should be a small amount of water left. If you hear no sloshing, then it's probably rotten.
"It's something you do when you get something new."
What about when you get a new coconut?
You crack the coconut.
Then you get stuck in an infinite loop. It's very important that you buy at least two coconuts at a time, so you can break one of them to inaugurate the whole batch.
@@beeble2003 Now that's cookin' with gas.
@@beeble2003 You buy one coconut. You break that coconut. Coconut christening complete.
Explain where the infinite loop comes in.
@@Mythraen I was assuming that coconuts can't be self-celebrating, so you need to buy another one to celebrate the first, and another to celebrate the second, etc. Your proposal also has merit; further investigation required.
But can it be carried by a swallow?
kooldude949 yes, if it grips it by the husk
Do you mean an African or European swallow?
Doesn’t have to be carried. Coconuts are migratory.
@@79pants you should watch monty python and the holy grail.
@@Equinox1066 They did, it is a response from the movie...
Haha this was an amazing clip! I am so impressed that she opened the coconut so casually, amazing.
I know, I was shocked how easy. And she looked so calm and collected about it.
it's like being amazed at someone opening a jar of pickles .. her description was that of growing up cracking coconuts on my occasions .. interesting sure but amazing? you need to get out more :p
So it's like a Chocolate Orange?
@Zen I don't think you understood my comment.
With vanilla inside
Only softer
"Don't tap it, whack it!"
@LiveHedgehog Definitely like a Terry's, either choc orange or choc raspberry - they both break the same. Yum. :-P
That was pretty baddass
Would have been way more badass if she'd taken the husk off first. Pre-husked is pretty much cheating.
@@WalkaCrookedLine How so? I've never dealt with coconuts much before, so I'm genuinely curious.
@@coryzilligen790 this fellow makes it look easy, but he has clearly had lots of practice. czcams.com/video/v15Wzlrwpdc/video.html
Thy this one
czcams.com/video/JQU6o4ooL5E/video.html
it really was! I was impressed and had no idea it could be that easy.
"These coconuts are not the drinking ones. Those are the green ones."
Now they know.
It may not be traditional, but brown coconuts absolutely have (wonderfully) drinkable coconut water in them and I'd get a tight slap from my gran for wasting it like that.
@@cmdrmiketv2698 true but most of them are nor sweet like the green ones.
@@cmdrmiketv2698 The water is drinkable; but bad for your health. Only the green ones (the tender ones) have water that's good for you.
I love the green coconuts. Many years ago, I was on holiday in Hainan, and I drank so much coconut water, straight from the coconuts. It was such a thirst quencher, especially in the humid summer heat.
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 was the stomach alright? Because drinking too much can cause diarrhoea
It's the only time Sandi has ever looked fascinated by a answer
That was impressive as fuuuck!
Holland Kerr really? This happens hundreds of millions of times in India everyday. And I mean hundreds of millions, no exaggeration!
As a person from the Caribbean, I am looking at this seeing people cheer as someone opens a coconut.
What the hell is going on?
They drank the rum first...
There's a lot of odd cheering on this show
They don’t expect ppl to have basic physical capabilities if they’re not low class hence the cheering.
I’m from a place where coconuts are exotic. We stab a coconut with a screwdriver for a while then decide we don’t like them anyway and give up.
Coconuts are completely alien to most of us. You could have given me one along with an entire workshop full of power tools and I still probably wouldn't have been able to get into one! Now of course I'd probably manage with just a bit of solid floor, that's the power of learning right there!
Experience and skill combined with a concise explanation.
So, anyone else expecting a trotting horse / Monty Python reference?
It won't work. You have to remove the flesh and dry it out
@@willsunnyf1 you could grip it by the husk!
Nobody expects the trotting horse / monty python reference!
I'll see myself out.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE No. she said her mother gives her a tight slap if she fails to crack the coconut properly.
They made that joke earlier in the episode.
Coconuts with smooth exterior and fairly large: there's water inside.
Coconuts with hairy exterior and aren't as big: less water, but more fleshy parts inside.
they are the same coconuts. When you leave the smooth one to dry, you can peel off the outer husk (turns brown) which is good fibre for insulation etc. Then you get the hairy inner kernel that contains the flesh.
That is the way you break a coconut when you have to start something new. You smash the coconut on a hard surface. The bonnet of the car is no good, but the wheel of a lorry is hard enough to withstand the impact and crack the coconut. Nevertheless still best to crack on the road in front of your vehicle.
When doing at home for cooking purposes, and you have no such hard surfaces to use, you can break it with a heavy knife/sickle/machete or rod. Hold the coconut in your weaker hand, and smash the blunt end of your knife perpendicular to the axis of the coconut. It will partially crack and you can then pry it open.
Survivorman Les Stroud used an old boat propellor to open a coconut. He kept striking the coconut with an edge of one of the blades, and rotated the coconut until he had cracked all the way around the outer shell.
That’s what my mom does; it was super surprising for me to hear that non-south Asians don’t do this
Came here to say that 😂 my Xemai (Indian grandmother) taught me to open using the back of the cleaver, but we do over a bowl so we get the water.
It’s the dehusking that’s the hard bit. That’s what I wanted to see. Always seeking to perfect that particular wrestling match.
Sindu is hilarious. Saw her stand-up in Hull and never stopped laughing.
How convenient they found the world's leading expert in coconuts. I would love to see the car dealer's response to the car being returned with a coconut shaped dent in it.
I suspect the car dealer's response would be quite negative. This proves that failing to break the coconut was indeed inauspicious.
She’s cool! ✌🏽
@@pikapika3667 : Or -- and this sure is a revolutionary thought in 2019, more than 50 years after the second wave of feminism began -- you could actually respond to her as a human being and not just as a fuckhole. Women are people -- just like men, we're here on Earth for our own purposes, to live our lives and use our talents, not to be rated by men or used by them as little more than sex toys.
black fingers? you must be racist if you only want to use those
Not cool at all. That method can't drink the water inside.
J J ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽 tell em
@@kathmandu604 the get the right coconut.
TIL: Inauspicious means "not conducive to success"
I had already looked up inauspicious while watching the video, but because of you I also had to look up "TIL".
TIL: "TIL" means "Today I learned".
@@Aquadolphin314 I already knew what inauspicious and TIL meant, so I learned nothing today, thus the unending decline toward the oblivion of a deteriorating mind begins.
@@DrZaius3141 LOL!
Another particularly popular time to have hundreds if not thousands of fresh coconuts cracked or even smashed (somewhat wastefully) on the road is during Thaipusam. It's widely practiced in societies with large number of Hindus, for example here in Malaysia. Of course there's the more practical machete for when you want to drink it instead.
This is a peculiarity of Thaipusam in Malaysia, where it seems to have become some sort of contest. The coconuts are an offering to the deity, and in India you take them back home, and use them for cooking.
I'm not sure about in other parts of the world but in Malaysia, the best way to crack the coconut open in perfect 2 halves is by using an axe or a 'parang' (or in this video case, hard on the concrete floor) and knocking it at the side where u can see a vertical like line that have it's top point pointing towards 1 of the 3 eyes that is softer than the other 2 eyes. I can guarantee, u will get a perfectly cracked 2 halves of a coconut.
i will disagree there that its not the drinking kind, because we drink it in the Caribbean, you just need to poke out the holes with an ice pick and its often quite sweet.
It's too dried out is her point. There's too little milk left.
You just give it to a unladen swallow. Preferably an african swallow. It will then carry it and it will drop the coconut. As a result of the drop the coconut will split in half and will be used to imitate a horses pace.
But then the African swallow's not migratory...
Are you implying that a 5 pound bird can carry 10 pound coconut?
@@Archmagos_assistant I love that this is a python bit, but it totally reads like a really dumb youtube comment argument xD
@@Archmagos_assistant perhaps two can, if you string a line between them
If anyone's seen the Polynesian channel they do they do the same with a machete. I'd say a quote but the fella is hilarious so watch him if you like.
Can you tell me the name of the channel, please?
@@MrAHatz
polynesiancultural - how to husk a coconut. would love to know what you think of it!
@@AfroGannon - thanks!
Just watched it... thanks
In the coastal parts of Mexico they open them with machetes. They only hack the top bit off, then you drink the water, then they chop it in half and scoop out the flesh and mix it with lime, salt, and chile powder.
Surprised no one has commented about the mansplaing
everyone tried to ignore it
Wasn't said by a guy so it gets a pass among those that would normally cry
@@partyblue9 That's not my experience. I think it was an attempt at a joke and that's why it gets a pass.
I was okay with it because I almost laughed. The only thing that I didnt like was that I think they would have said some funny stuff about the best way to open it but they just got told the right way to do it immediately. It would have been fun to see the others try to open it incorrectly
tum hawken I agree. Seems like a way better vehicle for humor. As is this is more "Hey Sindhu, show us how you open a coconut".
Also I think if they were going to do this they should have delivered the coconut and tools on a tray. It'd play on audience expectations because most don't know how to open one. Here we're just immediately told it's wrong to use tools.
And this is why you should hang out with everyone, knowledge.
Nice thought but there are genuinely some people you can learn nothing from. Every culture has something to learn though.
The bit about the tight slap omg
One of those three "holes" on the coconut is rather soft. It is a good idea to poke a hole through it, drain out the delicious water into a bowl (Even from the brown ones, you can get some water as you can see in the video). That is probably why they provided the screw driver.
Literaly everyone: yeah, we can open doors with our minds these days ...but.. a coconut..? Why even..
That one girl there: ...actually, in India we open coconuts all the time. 🤷♀️
What?
I learned something :D
The best way to open it?
Ask Mom to do it.
Wait, she said that the green ones were the drinking ones, but I always thought the brown ones with a face were just the inside bit of a green one.
Pretty sure they are the same coconut at different stages of life. Green is less ripe, no good coconut meat but it has water. As it ripens it browns, loses the water and gets meatier
@@TheAllomar
Correct.
Also, the green ones still have the outer husk on them. The little brown one in this video is older (less water and a thicker layer of coconut meat inside) and the fibrous outer husk has been removed.
You thought right.
@@williamm9435 The green ones have a bit of flesh that is soft and tastes awesome. You can scoop it up with a slice of the husk itself.
If you wanted to open it properly, so you could still drink it, you stick a screwdriver into one of the eyes or holes. Those parts aren't protected by a hard shell
I was waiting rip scream what they finally said at the end (cause there are different sizes & types of coco's across the world, & there are some you cannot just open as easily as that)
Mz. Vee just exudes intelligence, like a boss
I feel like she just learned the word auspicious today
I was thinking it’s probably just the word in English closest to the concept in that culture
lol.. probably millions do it every morning in India.
Bhavya Mankad Philippines. She grew up in the Philippines.
@@justusbraz Maybe the Filipinos and other tropical nations use the same method. But the things she talked about (auspicious starts and all) came from her Indian roots.
@@justusbraz and yet she knows nothing about coconuts
they need to rename this clip "Sindhu Vee reminding me why I am, indeed, very VERY gay for strong women"
Like a boss
There is also a seam that is very visible on the coconut, it helps if you strike that due to it being a weak point
And if you’re new to the transportation of coconuts, the trick is you grab it by the husk.
Feel really sorry for Sandi, must have taken her months to record the waiting bit at the end of all these videos.... ;)
I get at the eyes with a corkscrew first to drain the water out so I can drink it and then smash it open
Cracking coconut. Yeah! That's a cool and much respect to you!!
She grew up here? Nice!
That was actually Quite Interesting
One of my favorite memories of my mother is one Christmas she was going to make ambrosia. She knocked holes in the "face" of the coconut, drained it, then took it and a hammer and in her blue quilted housecoat and curlers, proceeded to whack the daylights out of the coconut on our carport. Unfortunately for her, the coconut was not willing to go quietly. It 'flew" in a direction as far away from my demented mother and her hammer as the coconut could get. The next 15 minutes, much to her children's delight and my mother's exasperation, was a sort of crazed ballet of hammer wielding, flying coconut, sweating mother in epic proportion! She finally "killed it" and swore we had better enjoy this ambrosia because she was never making it again!
I thought they gonna show coconut that still have the husk,
In the words of Terry’s Chocolate Orange:
*Don’t tap it, WHACK IT!!*
A: Ask someone else to do it.
She’s absolutely the coolest.
yes, I used a hammer when I was a kid, but I was from Virginia so I didn't have any training.
What I'm getting from this is that coconuts are really badly designed for how far they fall.
The one in video is the husked one. Naturally they are enclosed in a husk.
They don't exactly fall on concrete though
Au contraire, they're very *well* designed. Remember, the purpose of a tasty fruit around a seed is to encourage animals to eat it & poop the seed out somewhere else; a coconut that breaks open when it falls is easier to eat.
Oh, so green coconuts don't become the hard shell ones after they've dried up or something?
No, they'll spoil before the seed itself dries up. The seed coat isn't fully developed yet, so as the pericarp and mesocarp spoils, the microbes are able to permiate into the seed and cause the water and meat within to spoil as well.
For the whole fruit to dry, the tree "waits" until the seed is fully developed, then it draws water out of the carp layers of fruit in order to prepare it for the voyage ahead. The dry carp layers have two main functions: they help protect the seed from contamination and they increase the buoyancy of the fruit, helping the plant spread across the ocean.
Here in the Philippines we have two names for coconuts. "Buko" refers to green coconuts which have the sweet water. "Nyog" refers to the brown coconuts which have the thick, fatty meat.
There is a stage in the development of the fruit when it appears mostly green but the seed is fully developed and is actually considered nyog. This is when it is commercially harvested since the seed is unlikely to spoil due to the fully developed shell.
they're the same coconut, just at different stages
And Sindhu just gets that much hotter, showing a coconut who's boss.
But where do you put the Lime?
Thats the easy bit , getting the flesh off is bloody near impossible
More Sindhu please!
FanFicnic Yeah, more of her, and with less clothes next time. I'm sure Sandi would agree with me ;P
ED LIKE "ah yes of course" when she said these aren't the drinking ones HE 1000% DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE MULTIPLE TYPES OF COCONUTS definitely saying
The green ones are for drinking?! Well, that explains why I tasted it and it was disgusting 😗
The green ones contain the clear water that you can drink. The brown hairy ones, if I remember correctly, you can make a milk from if you dry the white flesh, grate it into water, then squeeze the pulp. My mum made me do it for rice pudding.
Pretty good party trick!
Flex 😎
so happy you've brough filipino culture to the show! i'm filipino and i live in america and i've never heard of that tradition, so i'm very happy to learn about it!!!
That's interesting. Is it because it's more of a rural thing or because she is from a different region or because you were brought up in the US? I am interested because i used to date a filipino girl years ago and she never spoke of her traditions. Well ,we were young, we didn't speak much at all...but that's too much information i guess :P
Its probably because she looks more Indian and what she explained is mainly done by hindus across the globe
Sindhu Vee has mentioned being Indian in other performances
Tight slap
What episode is this?
This clip is from QI Series P, Episode 14, 'Pathological' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Ed Byrne, Rhod Gilbert and Sindhu Vee.
@@CaptHayfever thanks
TIL something new about coconuts!
Which idea came first, the coconut or the guest?
Ah but does she know what leaves to rub on nettle stings? Or how to make and play conkers?
They use all parts of the coconut tree... Except the coconut water.
Me wondering why it doesn't have water...
What does she mean green coconuts? I mean the husk is green but not the seed right?
Green = unripe. The shell has not hardened, and you chop the top off with a machete, stick in a straw, and drink the water. There is not much flesh in it.
how on earth....
Actual Portuguese here. Never heard of such boogeyman. Only boogeymans here are papão and jose castelo branco of course
@@faenethlorhalien Spanish is just Portuguese with down syndrome tho
Edit: i thought it was "el cacuy" in Spanish oris that only in Mexico?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(folklore)
HULK SMASH
So we've been lied to with all these movies where people are trapped on islands only the green ones have water
That jab at the blokes was a bit much.
You can still drink the water!!!!
Throw it
Really hard
Sindhu Vee is hilarious.
Shut up Sandi! I want to hear Sindhu tell us more about Coconuts!
Jackhammer!
😎
I bet she couldn't break open a Terry's chocolate orange...😁
So I guess you have to use an ice skate on the green ones.
This is one of the "green ones". The green part is the exocarp. The brown fibrous shell you're familiar with is the endocarp. They remove the exocarp when exporting to save weight and space.
She said, “These are not the coconuts you drink from. It’s the green ones.”
With someone else's head.
Rhod had the same idea lol
He who cracks a coconut with his head, will not eat any part of it.
- African proverb
A coconut is a nut.
The coconut neither contains cocoa or is a nut
2:17 aaaah so that's why it tastes so fucking vile. When I tried it I thought it had spoiled.
Can't do that with a green one.
I like her
Oh come on who uses "Screwdriver and a hammer". it was all pre-planned to show how to break it open by her
A shitload of people use the screwdriver technique. I’ll admit that’s how I learned it before I moved to Oceania.
I'd just like to remind Sandy that her show is literally "Woman explains everything to men."
thats not what mansplaining is tho
Well please come on, just go to sleep granny.