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Gal just sent me a video regarding the natural way to eat corn. Not my way, but some of you can now claim ownership of the true and natural way:
Gal just sent me a video regarding the natural way to eat corn. Not my way, but some of you can now claim ownership of the true and natural way:
IWe used to have a butter spreader thing, we should try to get another.
We put up 60 ears today for the winter. Will probably add another 3 dozen or so.
Husk off, 3 min in microwave and 1 min add for each additional ear. Brush with toasted sesame oil, sprinkle of salt and gnaw away. Up, down, all around; it’s all good. I’ll be missing it come fall.
I found it:
2011 was the last year we raised corn. My FIL was the main gardener and his health diminished after that. 2011 was a low yield year, but I had fun using my new tractor. After we shucked the corn, we took it over to FIL's house where we processed it and put it up in the freezer. It was a long days work but the corn was never so good.
2011 was the last year we raised corn. My FIL was the main gardener and his health diminished after that. 2011 was a low yield year, but I had fun using my new tractor. After we shucked the corn, we took it over to FIL's house where we processed it and put it up in the freezer. It was a long days work but the corn was never so good.
I cook it in the microwave. For a while I used the wet paper towel method (described above in #11), but then I read that if you cook it UNSHUCKED in the microwave, the leaves peel off very easily afterwards without leaving behind any of those pesky, stringy threads. I was very skeptical about this, but tried it & was amazed -- it works beautifully. For me, 2 min & 45 seconds of cooking is perfect. So much faster than waiting for a pot of water to boil -- not to mention it's nice to avoid boiling a big pot of water in the kitchen on a hot summer day.
Yes, I eat it in rings, rotating the cob, with the fat end on the left. I didn't realize there was any other way! Seems natural because the kernels on the fatter end tend to be a little bigger & plumper so why not eat them all first? -- & by the time you get to the other end, those taste pretty good too!
I prefer to douse mine in black pepper. As much as the corn will hold.
Looks like you were almost as serious about sweet corn as my family! I grew up on an Iowa farm, and we ate a LOT of corn. My dad would load up his 8-row corn planter and make several passes in the "garden" (small field). That's a LOT of corn. Come harvest time, we'd get the water boiling, then go down to the garden and pick a load. Then RUN up to the house, shucking on the fly. Back then the corn lost sweetness rapidly as soon as you picked it, so you wanted to get it into the boiling water as quickly as possible.2011 was the last year we raised corn. My FIL was the main gardener and his health diminished after that. 2011 was a low yield year, but I had fun using my new tractor.