It's sweet corn season, and there are great deals at all the grocery stores, and roadside stands all over. Time to eat it, and eat it a lot.
I recently read that the best way to do corn on the cob. I'd always wondered about this, and now I know: the best way to cook a an ear or a few ears: in the microwave. Before, I typically boiled the ears, which took quite a while, and filled the hot summer kitchen with hot steam.
Here is how they describe it at cooks.com
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,microwave_corn_on_cob,FF.html:
Cook fresh corn on the cob in microwave with husks and silk intact. They will cook in their own natural moisture.
Place on dampened paper towel. Turn ears over and rearrange after 1/2 cooking time.
Cooking Timetable:
1 ear - 1 1/2 minutes
2 ears - 3 to 4 minutes
3 ears - 5 to 6 minutes
4 ears - 7 to 8 minutes
6 ears - 8 to 9 minutes.
When ears are hot to the touch, remove and wrap in kitchen towel or foil.
Let stand at least 5 minutes. Remove husks and silk (which is easier than when cold) and serve.
Serve with melted butter.
It works great. Has anyone else tried this?
5 comments:
I will definitely have to try that. Although I like mine with just a little salt. Did you know you can stick an onion in the microwave for a few minutes, still in its skin, and basically it sautés itself without oil? And you don't get tears when you cut it up.
I looove corn on the cob and I have made it in the microwave like that. Works great and you do save yourself the stove heat. Yum.
My wife has prepared corn like this for a couple of seasons now - its the only way to go!
I only microwaved Corn after I had boiled it and needed to heat it up...Hmmm.
I been known to eat it right off the cob!
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