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I need to remove all of the flesh of a coconut so I can use it as a project box. Does anybody know of any ways to get the flesh out without damaging the coconut?
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haha this has got to be the weirdest question Ive seen on this forum so far. I don't think there is an easy way to do it. Maybe just use a dremel tool and grind it out. Maybe you could cook it out in the oven? Or boil it.
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Well I doubt the dremmel idea, I broke the cutting bit and 2 cutting wheels opening it, when I put the first one in the oven it got about 5 horizontal cracks and was ruined, boiling might work though.......
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Inside there is the white part, and behind that the shell. Between there is actually a thin brown layer. Put a life in between, and it comes of cleanly. To open a coconut, hammer it while rotating it. Yay for indian's =)
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Lye (NaOH) treated coconut fiber is a cheap alternative for some plastic fillers.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried boiling lye water in a coconut to make soap. Remember to wear protection, as it probably works for dissolving eyeballs too.
However, I agree ants will clean anything down to the bone.... Finally a positive use for fire ants...
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There's no way to get the meat out of a coconut without damaging it. At the very least you need to drill a hole in it. If you cut it in half with a saw then it's easy just as RP181 says (and the stuff tastes good too). I don't think lye would work very well- it would dissolve the fats but leave a lot of the fibre behind. (and I'm pretty sure that it would do a better job of dissolving eyes than dissolving coconut).
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Removing flesh from coconuts
