How To Cook Sweet Corn

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Take an ear of sweat corn leaves and all and place in microwave for 4 mins.

After it is done remove the leaves and all the silk by cutting off the stem AND about 1" of cob. This is the secret!!

Grab said corn by the silk and begin pressing on the leaves and silk to force the cob (and corn) out of the cut end. Kinda like squeezing a tube of tooth paste.

No more husking corn! :eek:

The corn comes out cooked with 99% of the silk removed.

It is a mazing. ;)

You are welcome.
 
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Dunk 'em in some water and toss 'em on the grill, leaves and all, works similarly. Just have to be careful not to catch them on fire. ;)
 
Seen several good recipes posted by various pilots. We need someone go aggregate and create a PoA cookbook.
 
denverpilot said:
Dunk 'em in some water and toss 'em on the grill, leaves and all, works similarly. Just have to be careful not to catch them on fire. ;)
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This is my favorite way to cook corn. Simply delicious.


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I'd rather do the work up front so I don't have to peel anything after it's cooked, but your method seems really simple. I'll have to try it.

Here are the two basic methods I use, in order of preference:

1) husk/shuck the corn, add butter, s&p, wrap in foil, toss on grill while burgers cook. Turn every now and then.

2) husk/shuck the corn, boil water, toss in corn, wait for water to return to boil, take off heat. Corn will hold at that temp without getting mushy, so timing is no problem. Butter, s&p to taste.
 
We tried the 4-min husks-on micro method last week, found that it works as advertised.
 
Matthew said:
1) husk/shuck the corn, add butter, s&p, wrap in foil, toss on grill while burgers cook. Turn every now and then.
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This is probably a (quite common) bad idea. Look at sodium (salt) content of commercial butter. Look at locations of chlorine and aluminum on periodic table. Look at effects of Al++ (or whatever the electrical state of ionized Al is) on human body.

As noted, commonly done and probably a bad idea.
 
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Clark1961 said:
This is probably a (quite common) bad idea. Look at sodium (salt) content of commercial butter. Look at locations of chlorine and aluminum on periodic table. Look at effects of Al++ (or whatever the electrical state of ionized Al is) on human body.

As noted, commonly done and probably a bad idea.
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What the hell? Eat up people! Smoke em if you got em. Drink em too.
 
Cook sweet corn? Blasphemy, raw chilled from the fridge. I used to get a batch of U of Illinois Champagne sweetcorn, so yummy, I'd fly in to pick it up when ready. If I have corn bad enough that I'm going to boil it, I'm gonna put most of a bottle of Zataran's liquid crab boil in the water as well as a bunch of cubed red potatoes long before I toss in the corn, crawfish boil style. I'm going to separate out a batch of clarified butter and whisk in the last of the Zataran's and maybe add some gently rendered and clarified bacon fat for buttering the corn. It's also good stuff for starting a rue or basting a steak or chicken.
 
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denverpilot said:
Dunk 'em in some water and toss 'em on the grill, leaves and all, works similarly. Just have to be careful not to catch them on fire. ;)
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Get out the grill, put in the charcoal, add cancer causing lighter fluid, find matches, resoak with lighter (global warming causing) fluid, find matches that light, wait 30 minutes for lighter fluid to burn off, yada, yada, yada.... Just Say :no:
 
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Clark1961 said:
This is probably a (quite common) bad idea. Look at sodium (salt) content of commercial butter. Look at locations of chlorine and aluminum on periodic table. Look at effects of Al++ (or whatever the electrical state of ionized Al is) on human body.

As noted, commonly done and probably a bad idea.
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Salt is no longer bad for you. It is eliminated by the body very easily. It does not cause high blood pressure. Old school wives tale.

http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/food_myths/Salt_Causes_High_Blood_Pressure.php

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt
 
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Geico266 said:
Salt is no longer bad for you. It is eliminated by the body very easily. It does not cause high blood pressure. Old school wives tale
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It seems you've missed my point. Salt+moisture+aluminum+heat = Aluminum ions. Free aluminum is bad for body...
 
denverpilot said:
Dunk 'em in some water and toss 'em on the grill, leaves and all, works similarly. Just have to be careful not to catch them on fire. ;)
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Two secrets to making the grill work better:

1. Soak the corn in salt water.

2. After you take them off the grill, throw the ears in a cooler. They will steam in the cooler, and get even more tender and juicy.

Ya learn a thing or two about cooking corn when you live in Iowa for 14 years. :lol:
 
Geico266 said:
Get out the grill, put in the charcoal, add cancer causing lighter fluid, find matches, resoak with lighter (global warming causing) fluid, find matches that light, wait 30 minutes for lighter fluid to burn off, yada, yada, yada.... Just Say :no:
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One word answer: Propane. :D
 
This is how my grandmother did it. Cannot beat it.

Take down the largest pot in the kitchen and hand to 6-year-old grand daughter. Go out into the field and pull fat ripe ears of corn off the stalk. Shuck right there in the field. Stand up the ears in the pot held by grand daughter. Continue until the pot is entirely filled with corn. Go into the house. Fill the pot with water and boil for 10 minutes.

Best tasting corn ever. One of the best memories ever.
 
Jay Honeck said:
Geico266 said:
Get out the grill, put in the charcoal, add cancer causing lighter fluid, find matches, resoak with lighter (global warming causing) fluid, find matches that light, wait 30 minutes for lighter fluid to burn off, yada, yada, yada.... Just Say :no:
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One word answer: Propane. :D
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I use propane for the grill, most of the time, but when I want to use charcoal, I use newspaper and one of those chimney things to light the charcoal/wood.

denverpilot said:
Propane and propane accessories, Hank? ;)
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Ya beat me to it! ;)
 
Take pot of water and hot plate/cooker into field. Boil water. Strip corn ear back while still on stalk, bend over and place in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Remove, cut off stalk, eat.
 
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