Sawaddee ka welcome to hot thai kitchen today because I'm in Thailand we're going to do
something a little fun and interesting I'm going to show you how coconut milk gets made now I have
to preface this with this is actually the first time I'm going to open this coconut
usually when I used to make coconut milk as a kid it's been opened for me by an adult because
it requires wielding a big cleaver but today hey for hot thai kitchen we're going to do
it together so this is an old coconut and this is not the kind of the kind of coconut you get
your coconut water from those are young coconut there's water in here but the older the coconut
the thicker the flesh and that thick flesh gets creamy and fatty and that's where the coconut
milk comes from so this had a big hairy husk on it and it's been taken off and it's been shaved
with like literally with a knife just kind of shave like that so that you don't get too much
hair in the coconut water when we release it so the first thing we're going to do is crack it
so that the water comes out so we can deal with it without water splashing everywhere so okay
this is my second time ever so maybe this will go slightly better than the first time oh it's
cracked there I just heard it so I try to split it so all the water comes out and this coconut water
is completely drinkable it's actually sweeter than the young coconut water that gets you know
turn into commercial coconut water whoa there's more water so oh I'm so excited about this the
first my first one didn't come out this pretty but here we go so now we've got this beautiful
old coconut and now we're going to grate this meat using my special tool the rabbit alright
so here's the heart I'm familiar with I used to do this a lot growing up so I be handed a
coconut just like this and then we would use this thing which is a coconut grading chair
also known as the rabbit and okay it's not known as the rabbit we call it goodbye and that means
rabbit for reasons unbeknownst me I guess some in some ways it looks like a rabbit but it has
this really sharp blade and then you just grade it just like that and as you can see it's really
quite moist and juicy and then we're going to take that and squeeze all the coconut milk out of it
this is one of those things people don't do anymore okay like I'm completely going
back in time here nowadays people either buy the coconut already graded and then they milk their
own coconut milk or they just buy premade coconut milk but there's nothing like fresh coconut milk
but flavor the aroma is so much better than any kind of canned or you know preserved type
of coconut milk and you know why when I was little I liked this stuff this is fun so this is what it
looks like when it's done well I could push it a little bit further but I'm getting a little tired
so I think we've got enough as you can see in some parts I went a little far and I dug out the the
shell it's not a big deal for coconut milk but you know if you're using it for a dessert or something
you don't want the brown bits contaminated into the white fluffy coconut so normally if you were
to industrially make this you can make a hundred percent coconut milk meaning you just take this
with nothing at it and put it through like a squishing Machine and then the Machine just
squishes out all the coconut milk however at home we can't squish as hard as those machines they're
going to need a little bit of help so we like to add a little bit of hot water into the coconut
meat and then it makes the the milking a little bit easier and then you just squeeze it with your
hands so really just go in and you'll see as you squeeze the coconut milk will come running out and
that's coconut milk right there and when I was a kid I would just do this for like 15 minutes and
I just keep going because it's really fun okay so now that I've got this I'm going to squeeze
it into a strainer and this trainer is very traditional I think this has been here since
I was born and squeeze it over the strainer and that's it that's fresh coconut milk bat fly ah
okay and then I'm going to save this and set it aside because I want to go back and I can try
to milk even more coconut milk out of that and then what I'll get is what we call hang Kathy or
basically the second press it's a thinner coconut milk it definitely has its uses but this first
press is the more concentrated creamier creamier version so whoo there we go and that's it that's
how you make fresh coconut milk old school as you can see we didn't get a whole lot of coconut milk
so this is a lot of work right and that's why when I was little I was used to make coconut milk a lot
but I think it's a great experience if you get a chance if you have get a hold of a coconut you
should give it a try and you can really experience what fresh coconut milk tastes like and smell like
and it's also quite a lot of fun as well so I hope you enjoyed this episode and I will see
you next time for your next delicious time now if you are a guy you would just straddle this thing
and just put the coconut between your legs but as a lady this is sort of the more appropriate
position to do this in but if you're by yourself just go ahead and do whatever is comfortable right