Shucking a Coconut
August 20, 2008 Filed in: Videos
Here is a short clip of a guy Jim saw on one of the
islands shucking coconuts. It is so funny as Jim and
Jay have been here in Panama for almost 9 years and up
until a few months ago they thought you could only open
a coconut with a machete. All of our employees and any
other local we know use a machete to open a coconut. It
takes lots of machete strikes to the coconut and then
bending the machete across the coconut husk to get the
nut out of the husk. And here is this guy with an
ingenious little tool that lets him shuck multiples of
coconuts in the time that it takes for anyone else to
shuck one. This is all part of the fun of learning
something new everyday!