We love corn on the cob in our family. It’s always so much more available during the summer months. In fact, last week, we were given 2 whole trash bags FULL of it! Normally, I have the kids shuck it for me, as they often think it’s fun.
Even the 2 year old gets involved.
But if we start eating it often, they think I’m punishing them by making them shuck MORE corn. Sometimes, in those cases, they would rather choose not to eat corn on the cob than to have to shuck it yet again. Yes, they tend to get a bit lazy. I’m sympathetic though. It’s hard to make someone do a job that you really dislike doing yourself. I mean it’s hard in an “I feel bad I’m making them do that AGAIN” type of way, not in the “work hurts them” type of way. Because obviously, I’m all about them working! That’s a whole new blog post though and I won’t get into that today.
SO….on one of those sympathetic mom days, I decided I’d shuck the corn myself. I wouldn’t even make them do it. Then, since I love shucking corn so much, I decided to use this handy tool called “Google” and figure out if there’s a way to make shucking corn easier and faster. (But wouldn’t you know it, they all came and joined me anyway! LOL).
That’s when I ran across this video:
(You’ll need to click to the website if you’re reading this in an email)
If you don’t want to take the time to watch the video, what it shows is how they microwave the corn for several minutes and then cut the end off of the corn. Once it’s hot, the silks and husks just slide right off with ease. The only thing I could think of though was, WHAT ABOUT THE WORMS? I’m imagining cooked worms in the corn on the cob. Of course, I realize not all corn on the cob has worms, but more often than not, when we get a large batch of corn on the cob, we’ll at least find 2 or 3 worms total (but sometimes more) in all the corn we’re shucking.
So that led me to try something else. I always felt like there’s a better way than peeling all those layers one or two at a time. This is what I figured out.
Cut off the base end of the corn (not the end with the brown silks sticking out), right up to the corn, but don’t actually cut into the cob.
If you peel from that end, it comes off in larger pieces than if you start from the other side.
It’s the small things that make me happy! 🙂
Once all of the husk is removed and as much of the silks are removed, run it under cold water, to get as many more of the silks as you can!
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