How do I open sugar cane?

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My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

I don't know that you open it. I thought one crushed it to extract the
sweet juice? I know at the chain restaurant Bahama Breeze, they have old
fashioned rolling/crushing devices to do it as it is an important
ingredient in their mojitos.

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

You cut it into length easy to handle say 8 to 12 inches. Then you
put one end in your mouth and start chewing and sucking the juice.
After you get most of the juice you spit out the pulp. Take another
bite. Repeat till you've had enough. If the stalk has a very hard
husk, you can split it in two lengthwise to make it easier to get to
the pulp.

The other way it's used is extracting the juice using a press and
drinking the juice. Don't know if a juicer will handle it. Try some
small pieces. If it works you'll have a treat.

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My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open it?

As kids we just took a stick and banged it on a tree to bust the tough
outer rind and get at the sweet white fibres inside which you chew to
extract the juice and then spit out the fibrous wad. They would break
out in very conveniently sized lumps for chewing. :-)

A more refined technique is to cut out the single internodes, usually
by cutting close below the nodes so that you ended up with short
lengths with the tough nodal bit at the bottom of each for a handle.

Once cut like that, it's simply a matter of "skinning" the piece by
cutting down between the rind and the pith from the "open" end to the
"handle". Then you can quarter the piece longitudinally to make the
bits easier to chew on. You can cut up a batch and store them in the
fridge for a day or so -- if you can cut faster than eat. 🙂

I might add that most of the modern canes here in Oz are barely
edible. They are now so high in fibre that the pulp itself is almost
impossible to chew. I think breeders went for higher fibre to
counteract both loss of pith and microbial degradation of the billets
once the industry moved to from whole-stick mechanical harvesting to
the modern "billet" harvesters which chop the sticks up into
relatively short pieces. Many of the modern varieties are also barely
distinguishable from bloody Guinea grass, the stems are so thin!

Badilla was a great eating cane having both a good thick stem and low
fibre pulp. I believe it was the only "noble cane" (_Saccharum
officinarum_) directly introduced from the wild (PNG?) to commercial
sugar production in Oz. I don't think its grown here any longer other
than in genetic resource collections.

Cheers, Phred.

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ravenlynne said:

Quoted message said:

I don't know that you open it. I thought one crushed it to extract the
sweet juice? I know at the chain restaurant Bahama Breeze, they have
old fashioned rolling/crushing devices to do it as it is an important
ingredient in their mojitos.

Love their jamaican beef patties and mango salsa.

Oh yeah!! I always get those too. It is one chain restaurant that I
really like a LOT.

I work in Brixton, london, which has a large West Indian community, what you
need is a bloody big machete to strip off the bark, then cut into lengths
that you chew, spitting out the pulp. it's a little disappointing I find,
not as sweet and rich as you'd expect, a bit like sugar water really.

Winston
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My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

TheHerd said:

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My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Good grief man., Lay the bloody thing on a brick and smash it with a
rock. Didn't you get the memo?

I grew up on sugar cane plantations and as kids, we ate it all the
time as a treat. You do have to take off the outer thicker skin to
get to the good stuff. First of all, slice a long stalk in 1 or 2
foot sections. Stand the cut piece of sugar cane on its end, get a
knife, slice off the outer part of the stalk and you are left with
white sugar cane. Then you slice that white stuff into small
"sticks",and chew out the yummy sugar and spit out the fibre.

Pre- Hawaiians brought their own kind of sugar cane in their migration
to Hawaii and it is thought that their teeth were very clean as a
result of chewing on that white cane fibre.
aloha
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Goomba38 said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

I don't know that you open it. I thought one crushed it to extract the
sweet juice? I know at the chain restaurant Bahama Breeze, they have old
fashioned rolling/crushing devices to do it as it is an important
ingredient in their mojitos.

Love their jamaican beef patties and mango salsa.

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth. Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

Sheldon

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Good grief man., Lay the bloody thing on a brick and smash it with a
rock. Didn't you get the memo?

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Where it's grown, they usually use a machete.

Use a cleaver or chef's knife but be careful.

gloria p

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looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

You peel it.

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Sheldon said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth. Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

You just wanted to use the word "masticating" :-)

TammyM

Sheldon said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth. Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

Sheldon

Oh I am sorry to argue wiht you Shldon. Please be gentle. One
doesn't masticate the sugar cane fibre-- more than just to extract the
juice. You chew the fibres to get the juice and then spit out the
rest. In a sugar mill, big crushers squeeze the stalks to extract the
juice. Sort of the same method. Then the sugar juice is boiled...and
you eventually have sugar crystals.

Early Hawaiians did have beautiful teeth and their sugar cane was one
of the 12 "Canoe plants" that they chose to bring on their early
migration.

aloha,
beans

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Sheldon said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth. Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

Sheldon

Oh I am sorry to argue wiht you Shldon. Please be gentle.

hahaha! I want some of what you're on, beans!!

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Sheldon said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

Quoted message said:

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth.  Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

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Sheldon

Oh I am sorry to argue wiht you Shldon.

So, Beans... you farted away any sense of humor you may have had. And
if you're going to post diatribes filled with gibberish, proof read,
you illiterate newbie [censored].

Sheldon

cyberTwat said:

Beans said:

Sheldon said:

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> My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
> looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
> it?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Human teeth are just not well designed for masticating sugar cane,
simply proves vegetarianism is a myth.  Much easier and far more
satisfying to uncap a bottle of rum.

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Oh I am sorry to argue wiht you Shldon.

hahaha! I want some of what you're on, beans!!

He's on sucking donkey [censored]... right up your alley, [censored]... Beans'
retarded sister! <G>

Aahhahahahahahahahawhahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

Sheldon

Goomba38 said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

I don't know that you open it. I thought one crushed it to extract the
sweet juice? I know at the chain restaurant Bahama Breeze, they have old
fashioned rolling/crushing devices to do it as it is an important
ingredient in their mojitos.

I've seen sugar cane at one of my local Asian (Viet - owned) markets, I
always wondered what people do with it. Seems to sell okay, I've seen a
number of people with it. Guess next time I'll just ask (if they speak
English)...

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Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

A lot of the stuff you buy in the stores, depending on where you
live, is pretty dry and solid.

I recommend a hacksaw or band saw. Then make sugarcane shrimp
(Vietnamese)

Chewing it reminds of chewing on a Popsicle stick or pencil - it
gives me the goose bumps just thinking about it.

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

Quoted message said:

My subject sais it all. I have no clue what the inside od sugar can
looks like and my family and I just got a stalk. how exactly do I open
it?

A lot of the stuff you buy in the stores, depending on where you
live, is pretty dry and solid.

I recommend a hacksaw or band saw.  Then make sugarcane shrimp
(Vietnamese)

Chewing it reminds of chewing on a Popsicle stick or pencil - it
gives me the goose bumps just thinking about it.

'Zactly, the petrified [censored] in the US stupidmarket is a far cry from
cane cut fresh in the field. I think mostly some Hispanic markets in
the US stock a small bunch of cane in the produce section primarily as
some kinda feel-good back-home thingie... all the times I'd patronize
the Hispanic markets I never saw anyone buy any. Harvesting cane is
done by hand with a machete, it's one of the most oppressive jobs on
the planet... perhaps they keep a sheaf of cane at the Hispanic
markets in the US just to remind some of their Hispanic patrons how
their landscaping job ain't that bad. I've been up close and personal
to cane fields in Belize, that's way beyond slave labor.

Sheldon