Comments on: How to cook corn on the cob https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/ Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:49:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494649 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:49:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494649 My daughter has a somewhat older touch, but it has a camera, and it is pretty good, I think the same as the concurrent iPhone.

]]> By: Gus Tisdal https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494648 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:24:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494648 I have seen sme pictures made on the ipod touch and they don’t look bad at all for a 0.7 MP camera. Does anyone have real experience with the camera of the ipod touch? Is it any good? Here in Holland (europe) this ipod touch is not released yet. Does anyone know when it is going to be released in Holland?

]]> By: helen jones https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494647 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:21:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494647 ok here’s how we prepare corn on the cob. Fresh. Husked. De-silked. one massive clean cooler. fill cooler two-thirds full with corn. toss in a handful of salt. NO SUGAR. add boiling water to cover corn. close top of cooler. toss into truck bed. drive like a bat-out-of-hell to the fields where the harvest is on. keep a couple pounds of butter and s&p on hand and stand out of the way. toss the leftover cobs to the cattle… life is good

]]> By: Uncle Glenny https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494646 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:49:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494646 You could eat it raw. I’ve done that with sufficiently high quality, fresh corn.

]]> By: scidogs https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494645 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:30:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494645 better move quick, the corn at my local store is now labeled home grown which means we are at the end of the crop this year.

]]> By: Susan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494644 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:49:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494644 Another advantage of microwaving unhusked corn is that the silk is easy to remove afterward.

As to fresh corn, I know some corn farmers who have set up a pot to boil in the field so the corn can be added immediately after picking. Not quite as good as bending in the cornstalk …

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494643 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:21:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494643 Jim, why ruin the corn? Better to set up the boiling water on an outdoor cooker next to the corn stalk, and then bend the corn stalk down to put the corn cob into the water while still attached. Once the screaming stops, wait about two minutes and it’s done.

]]> By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494642 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:31:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494642 Back in Illinois i had a small backyard garden with some sweet corn. I set the water on to boil, went out and pulled three ears. I shucked them on the way into the house and put them into the boiling water. I do a 5 minute boil. It is a fact that the fresher the corn the better it tastes.

]]> By: Bodach https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494641 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494641 Room temperature corn into boiling water for 3 minutes, remove from water and toss around on a hot grill until nicely marked, slather with butter, sprinkle with cumin/salt mixture, eat, rest, exercise to remove new weight.

]]> By: Alon https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/12/how-to-cook-corn-on-the-cob/#comment-494640 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:01:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13401#comment-494640 Adding salt to the water ensures that it gets evenly distributed as the corn hydrates. Adding sugar made sense when most varieties weren’t as sweet as the currently comercially available ones, but it’s rather pointless in this day and age (like salting raw eggplant to draw the bitter, potentially toxic solanine out).

I favour the roasting method myself: discard all but a couple of layers of husks, remove the silky stigmata, brush corn lightly with olive oil or butter and a pinch of salt, wrap again in remaining husks, and roast over an open fire for about 15 minutes, rotating as needed to prevent burning.

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