1, use a small hammer or other hard object to smash a few times until a large crack appears.

2. Break it open directly with your hands.

3, you can use a knife to peel out the coconut meat for eating.

Expanded:

Coconut (scientific name: Cocos nucifera?L.) Coconut plants of the family Palmae, tall, treelike plants, 15-30 meters high, stout stems with annular leaf scars, thickened at the base, often with clustered rootlets. Petiole stout, inflorescence axillary, fruit ovoid or subglobose, fruit cavity contains endosperm ("pulp" or seed kernel), embryo and sap (coconut water), flowering and fruiting mainly in the fall.

Coconut is native to southeastern Asia, Indonesia to the Pacific Islands, China's southern islands of Guangdong and Leizhou Peninsula, Hainan, Taiwan and southern Yunnan tropical areas are cultivated.

China more than two thousand years ago, the "Records of the Grand Historian" on the coconut has been recorded. Coconut is an important tropical woody oil crops. Has a very high economic value, all parts of the whole plant have uses. [1-2]?