How to Clean the Outside of the Coconut

How to Clean the Outside of the Coconut

How to clean the outside of the coconut is very easy if you know the tool used, namely sandpaper.

Coconut is a plant that has many benefits, from roots until leaf's, all of which can be used to support human life, the most common benefits are the nut, namely coconut water and coconut meat.

Coconut is composed of 3 layers, namely outer skin, coconut fiber, and coconut shell, coconut fiber and coconut shell are also of many benefits,

In this article, I will only focus on coconut shell, the characteristic of coconut shells is the rough surface because there are fibers and very hard, maybe the hard texture of this shell serves to protect the flesh and coconut water so when the nut falls, it will not damage the meat and water inside coconut.

Coconut shell are widely used for crafts, this process is done to provide added value economically, because coconut shell are usually only a piece of waste that is worthless, most often only burned and used as charcoal.

To make coconut shell into a handicraft, in general coconut shell is cleaned and smoothed it's surface.

Then the question arises, how to clean and smooth the out side of the coconut shell.

Let us discuss

To clean outside coconut shells from fibers and refine them, we can use tools such as knife and sandpaper, knife are used to clean fibers but the surface of the shells has not been smooth, to smooth them out we can use sandpaper with 3 choices, namely Fine (150 to 180), Very Fine (220 to 240), Extra Fine (280 to 320).

The following steps to clean the outside of the coconut shell

1. Take the coconut that is still intact, then peel until the husk is separated from the coconut shell.
2. Use a knife to clean the outside surface until the fibers are gone.
3. Use one of the sandpaper types above, to smooth, rub the sandpaper on the shell surface forwards and backwards by hand.
4. For one grain of coconut that is mashed the surface of the outer side using sandpaper, to obtain results that are really smooth it takes about 30 minutes.

That is the way to clean the outer coconut, the above process can also be done to clean the inside of the coconut shell, good luck.