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How To: Open a coconut in 30 seconds

This video tell about opening coconut in 30 seconds, take a green coconut, hit it against a rock on its top or bottom side hard till the time it opens up or comes off from the side which you are hitting on the rock. Once it opens up a bit, you can then pill off the outer portion of the coconut with your hands, if any portion is not opened, then hit it again against the rock to open it full. Once it is opened, take out the fibers on out in full, the bear coconut you can hit against the rock fr...

How To: Open a coconut with meat cleaver

Step 1. Understand that opening a coconut requires a considerable use of precise force. Because you are using a knife or cleaver, it is very important that you keep your fingers and other body parts away from the blade. Step 2. Clear off a stable cutting surface. Step 3. Begin scraping off the white, sinewy upper layer around the pointed top of the coconut, using your knife. Scrape off the top layer until a brown ridge is revealed around the base of the pointed top. Right where this brown lay...

How To: Make a Blue Mediterranean gin cocktail

In this video, Derrick Schommer, sales engineer, podcaster and host of Common Man Cocktails shows viewers how to mix up a Blue Mediterranean. This classy gin cocktail is based on Bombay Sapphire gin, teamed with lemon-and-lime Sprite and Blue Curacao for a sophisticated, slightly sweet drink. The Blue Curacao and gin are placed in a high-ball glass with ice, then the drink is topped off with Sprite and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.

How To: Clean and cut an artichoke

This helpful tutorial video demonstrates how to properly cut and clean an artichoke before cooking it. Learn how to do it quickly and easily with minimal fuss. The video covers both the flower and the stem. - First, use a large knife to cut off the stem of the artichoke. You can set it aside to prepare later, if you wish. - Moving about 2/3rd of the way up the flower, cut off the top of the artichoke. - Slice the remainder in half. - Switching to a smaller knife will make the next part easier...

How To: Build a spy clock

HouseholdHacker teaches you how to make a spy clock. You will need a cheap walkie talkie set and a battery powered clock. Fully disconnect the circuit board and cut the battery off from the walkie talkie. Also clip the microphone. You will want to glue the on/off button so it will always be on. Next, open up the clock and rewire the battery with the walkie talkie circuit board. Wire the walkie talkie into the speaker, inside the clock. The clock should look unopened. You're ready to go.

How To: Cook an artichoke

Victoria Walsh from Chatelaine TV will show you how to cook an artichoke in this very simple video. To begin you want to make sure to remove any dried leaves from the artichoke, and then proceed to clip the rough ends of the remaining leaves on the artichoke. Next, you want to cut the top off, and then cut the stem off leaving only about three quarters of an inch. Now, you want to prepare a boiling pot of water and let the artichokes stem in the pot to tender for 25-45mins. To check the tende...

How To: Open a coconut with no tools

Follow along as Coconut Chris teaches us how to open a coconut in under a minute. - You can use a metal spike, but the most common way to open a coconut "Hawaiian Style" is to smash it on a rock.

How To: Cut the cheeks off a mango

This video give you a step by step in how to cut your mango cheeks, and owszat shows you how to do it. Using careful tactics on the mango, you can see a slight edge. Where you distinguish your mango's center point is where you will be cutting from. Tear off your stem to have a flat relying surface. Cutting about five millimeters from the center point on each side, making one slice that releases your cheek, and doing the same for the other side leaves you with two mango cheeks and the center p...

How To: Do the Hindu Shuffle & Hindu Control

Here's a video tutorial that will surely teach you how to do Hindu Shuffle and Hindu Control. Shuffle the cards to your audience and let a person pick a card. Retain the bottom card not by overhand shuffle since it's obvious that the bottom card is retained. Hindu Shuffle does the same thing as overhand shuffle except that it's done in a different angle and way of handling. Force the bottom card by holding the deck with your right hand's thumb, ring and middle fingers. Take off half of the de...

How To: Quit smoking using a pen cap

Tired of not being able to quit smoking? Have you tried everything but nothing works? Watch this life changing short video and learn the trick of quitting smoking by simply using a pen cap. Watch this video and listen to MAtt Jarbo's story on how he fought off smoking for ever. All you need is a BIG pen cap and you will be able to fight off the cravings of smoking. No other thing needed just follow his tricks and you will soon not smoke anymore.

How To: Cut a pomegranate open

Ever wanted to enjoy the sweet taste of pomegranate but were confused about how to actually get to the fruit? Use this simple method to cut open your fruit. Take a small, sharp knife such as a paring knife or pocketknife. Slice a thin round off the top, stem end. This will leave several tops of fruit sections visible. Cut a small cone shape out of the center about 3/4 of an inch deep. Use the knife to slice from one end of the fruit to the other along the white pith dividing the segments of t...

How To: Sew by hand

Watch this video to learn how to sew by hand! You need scissors, thread (or floss), a needle, and fabric. First, stick your threaded needle through the cloth and pull the thread through. To make a running stitch, push it back through to the opposite side. Your stitches should look like a dashed line. For a whip stitch, keep pushing the needle through the fabric from the same side each time, near the edge. It will wrap around the edge. To tie it off, push the needle back through the loop of a ...

How To: Remove a crank arm with a square taper

In this how-to video, you will learn how to remove a crank arm with a square taper on a bicycle. You will need a crank puller. You will also need two sockets (14mm and 9/16"), a quarter, a socket wrench, and a screwdriver. Use the quarter as a screwdriver to pull off the cover. You can use the screwdriver in case that does not work. Take the 14mm socket, place it in the socket wrench, and twist off the bolt. Take the crank puller and screw it on one end. Twist the lever until the crank is loo...

How To: Peel ginger without using a knife

Gourmet Magazine's food editor Lillian Chou introduces cooking enthusiasts to a little-known method to peeling a ginger. She addresses the problem of cooks taking too much of the ginger off with the skin when peeling with a knife. To reduce this wasteful practice and get dependable results every time, she encourages the use of a spoon! This simple tool can take the skin (and only the skin!) off ginger without any hassle. It also is apparently very good at getting the hard-to-peel spots on gin...

How To: Turn off AutoCorrect symbols in Excel

In this Excel magic trick video the instructor shows how to stop automatic copyright symbol ©. While using Microsoft Excel when you type the letter c in between a pair of curved braces Excel automatically turns it into the copy symbol © even if we did not intend to use it. Now to get rid of this feature go to the file menu and then to the options menu. In the options window that pops up go to the proofing sub menu and there is a button for auto correct options. Go into it and it shows the lis...

How To: Make mini egg & bacon pies

This video from One Pot Chef Show demonstrates how to make mini egg and bacon pies. Instead of pastry, the pies uses a slice of bread. Cut the crusts off the bread. Use a muffin pan with paper liners and press the piece of bread into the liner. Tear off the bits that overhang the liner. Cook bacon and drop a little bit of bacon into each cup. Scramble eggs in a bowl and season them with salt and pepper and a little Worcestershire sauce. Pour a little of the eggs mixture into each cup. Cheese ...

How To: Draw manga/anime girls

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a manga girl. He uses a Photoshop-like program on the computer to generate this character. He starts off the picture by starting off with a basic shape for the body and face. He uses light sketching, before using more thick lines to create the details of her face and body. He draws a lot of lines, to make sure that the girl is symmetrical. He makes it look even more elaborate, to parts such as the hair and face, by layering multiple details.

How To: Install a dimmer switch for home lighting with Lowe's

A dimmer switch lighting system in your home can offer a relaxing midpoint to the standard on-off option and even cut down on energy costs. This video tutorial by Lowe’s shows how to install a single pole dimmer switch in your home lighting system. Depending on the total wattage of the lights to be controlled you’ll need to install a compatible dimmer switch. Before replacing the actual switch plate, check the power with a circuit tester to insure that the power is off.

How To: Seed and eat a pomegranate with bowl of water

Pomegranate is native to Persia and it is a combination of two Latin words that mean apple and seeds. Wear old clothes and put a paper towel over the cutting board because the juice of the pomegranate can spray out and it stains. Start by cutting off the top and bottom of the pomegranate. Score the pomegranate by cutting through the skin in four different places. Get a bowl of water and hold it under water while you pull the skin off. As you take the pomegranate apart you are trying to get th...

How To: Paint Converse shoe nails

To create Converse shoes nail design, you will first apply a base coat in the color you want the shoe to be. Tape off to create a shoe top and paint white. Pull off the tape, but not too soon or line will be uneven. Take a darker color of base coat make a curve on both sides leaving the middle so it's shaded. Repeat on the other side. Using black outline the white nail tip. Using silver make circles, while the polish is tacky make holes in the circles. Using white make little lines for stitch...

How To: Prepare breaded pork loin

Video describes a way to make breaded pork loin. It begins by showing you the ingredients of the pork loin, bread crumbs, milk, pepper, salt, and egg. First you start off with the pork loin where you sprinkle them with a little salt and pepper on both sides of each pork loin. Then you take your egg and add a little milk. From there you wire whisk the milk and egg until well mixed. Then dip the meat fully into the egg and milk mixture to dip into the bread crumbs so they stick to the meat. Vid...

How To: Clean an LCD screen

Is your computer's LCD screen getting so dirty you can barely make out what you're typing. Use a few household ingredients to keep a clear, sharp image on your LCD screen without clouding or scratching it.

How To: Eat a kumquat

Have an itch for a kumquat? Don't know what a kumquat is? It's a fruit. Venture out of of your everyday apple, and follow these steps to impress your friends with your knowledge of this funnily named fruit.

How To: Draw a realistic human eye

In this video tutorial, "Miki Falls" manga artist Mark Crilley shows us how to draw a realistic eye. For any artist who aspires to draw realistically, it's essential to get eyes right. The eyes, after all, are the "window to the soul," and if something's off with a drawing of an eye, we will always notice.

How To: Assemble a puppy dog pumpkin

How to create the puppy dog pumpkin, Good Boy. It's not very difficult, just saw off the top gourd stem and turn the bottom pumpkin upside down. I used some toothpicks to help level the bottom pumpkin. Carve out the eyes, mouth and legs. Gouge the rind off but leave the rest of the flesh on the dog's chest, eyes and tongue. Paint areas if desired. I used a button nose held by straight pins and funny eyes glued on. The ears are attached by toothpicks into the head pumpkin. Just look for unusua...

How To: Start and stop on a bicycle

This how-to video offers some steps for coming to a safe stop and a quick start on a bicycle. Coming into the stop, lift the foot off the bike pedal early so you have a chance to get the foot on the ground before stopping. Use the brakes while in the stop position. Reset the pedal to the midway position while fully stopped. Keep the head up to get ready for take off, and try to get momentum going before getting the other foot back in. Watch this video cycling tutorial and learn how to start a...

How To: Tie a twisted dropper loop for fishing

The Twisted Dropper Loop is a variation of the dropper loop. As the dropper loop the twisted dropper loop forms a loop which is off to the side of the line. In the this variation the line is twisted before the loop is created. This stiffens the line and make it stand nicely off to the side. The twisted dropper loop can be used anytime a loop is needed in the middle of your leader. Follow along with this fishing HowTo video to learn how to tie a twisted dropper loop for fishing.