Corn on the cob?

emiff6

Yes, you can eat raw sweetcorn, both the big cobs, or the baby ones that are sold for stir-fry which you can eat whole. It's just as sweet as cooked, but crunchier.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

emiff6 wrote: »

Yes, you can eat raw sweetcorn, both the big cobs, or the baby ones that are sold for stir-fry which you can eat whole. It's just as sweet as cooked, but crunchier.

Make sure you chew the kernels really well, though. Indigestible fibre and all that...

meritaten

its really easy to prepare corn on the cob. all you need is a large bowl and a small bowl. you put the small bowl upside down in the large bowl and then you cut off the bottom of your corn. take off all the leaves and the silks (those thread bits) and place the bottom of the corn on top of the upended bowl. now take your knife (it doesnt have to be supersharp tho it helps) and cut down the kernels of corn as close as you can get it to the stalk. the kernels will fall into the large bowl, keep cutting all the way round.

now you get a pan of boiling water and add a little sugar (a good pinch or about a quarter of a teaspoon) and put the sweetcorn in - unless you are using it in a different recipe. simmer for a couple of minutes and then drain add a little salt and butter and serve.
my son grew corn on the allotment last year - and it was amazing! served like this it was like explosions of taste in your mouth!

zippychick

how did you get on Humphrey?

Humphrey10

It tasted fine raw so I didn't bother boiling/steaming it in the end, and I don't seem to have suffered any ill effects from eating it raw! My least blunt knife managed OK with chopping the kernels off too.

It didn't have any of those stringy bits between the kernels that corn on the cob usually has, I guess they were removed when they took the leaf off etc for the shop?

Thanks for the tips everyone!