India, May 7 -- As delicious and versatile a coconut is, it is also a notoriously difficult fruit to consume. Even after one manages to peel off the thick outer fibrous covering, there is yet another hard shell to crack into before one can access the nutritious water and pulp.

This often demotivates young home cooks from using it in their recipes. To solve the problem, celebrity chef and MasterChef India judge Ranveer Brar took to Instagram on May 7 and demonstrated how to break apart a coconut without making a mess in the kitchen.

The chef stated that there are three vertical lines that go down a coconut, like longitudes on a globe. If one looks at the top of the coconut, they can see three dark circles, also known as the eyes of the c...