Occasionally I like to enjoy fresh coconut. I did not realize how little of a coconut connoisseur I was until taking on this review. I thought there were only hairy coconuts, or that is all that I saw in the stores I routinely shopped at. Well, I learned these hair coconuts are mature coconuts and there are also young coconuts and green coconuts available for sale. I found a Vietnamese Market in St. Cloud that sold young coconuts for $3.18 each. Young coconuts contain coconut water while mature coconuts contain coconut milk.
Now that I’ve got the young coconut, how do I open it? It does not have the three eyes like the hairy coconut. You can run a nail through two of the eyes and drain the coconut milk out of a mature coconut and then hit it with a hammer to split it open. This coconut looks very different. Here is where the Coco Jack comes in handy.
Pictured above is the Coco Jack Pack. This pack runs for $49.95 and includes the following:
- 1 Coco Jack
- 1 Coco Mallet
- 1 Coco Scoop
- 1 Coco Sack
To use the Coco Jack, you must have a young Thai coconut or they are sometimes termed “sweet coconuts”. Green coconuts work too. You will want to position the coconut and equipment on a sturdy counter top or table and this should be performed by adults with the kids away. There will be vibrations from blows of the plastic mallet so make sure anything breakable on your work surface is put away and to watch for anything moving from the vibrations.
Place the coconut on the Coco Shock (rubber safety mat). Then place the Coco Jack over the pointed part of the coconut (coconut crown) and apply blows to it with the EZ-Coco mallet. The Coco Jack has not been tested with other hammers, mallets, or beaters, only with the Coco Jack. Do not use any metal hammers with the EZ-Coco mallet. 
Coco water started to seep out and I knew I had hit the jackpot. Be careful when you remove the Coco Jack because it has sharp edges to penetrate the coconut. I rocked it back and forth to free it from the coconut crown.
It is best to drain the coconut water and try to consume it shortly thereafter to ingest the vitamins and minerals it contains. The Coco Scoop has a curved sharp edge to remove the coconut meat with minimal effort.
Here is the meat and water from the young coconut I opened with the Coco Jack Pack. The meat was more moist and less chewy with coming from a young coconut versus a mature coconut, but still very delicious.
The Coco Jack is made of 100% food safe stainless steel and made in the U.S.A. It is recommended to handwash and dry the metal equipment.
The Coco Shock (rubber mat) is washing machine safe and can be air-dried or tumble dried on low. It can be washed by hand too. To learn more about Coco Jack, please visit coco-jack.com
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Disclosure: I received a Coco Jack to conduct this review. The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own. No other compensation was received for this post.
