Thanks for the info!

Loved the music too!

Yet another great way to shuck corn. Thanks! However, it might be safer for some of us klutzy people to put the corn down on the board to cut it lengthwise rather than holding it in the air.

Nancy

Posted by eileen101 "Thanks for the info!"

You are very welcome.

Posted by islay_corbel "Loved the music too!"

Thanks. That is the music "Best Is Yet To Come". In my case, it's "The Worst Is Yet To Come" :-)

Posted by nancedar "Yet another great way to shuck corn. Thanks! However, it might be safer for some of us klutzy people to put the corn down on the board to cut it lengthwise rather than holding it in the air. Nancy"

Thanks you. You are absolutely 100% correct. It would definitely be safer and accomplish the same thing.

Cool, dcarch. Esp. if you have a lot of corn to clean for freezing or a big crowd. I'm OK w/ a few ears but my hands start protesting if there are more than a half dozen ears to clean.

[If I'm grilling corn, I just toss the ears on the grill. No soaking, no removing silks. The silks pull away nicely after the corn has been cooked.]

Nice torch. I need to get one like that for the kitchen. Gotta' manually light the one I have.

That does look like it's even easier!
I agree with Nancy,
It needs to lay on the cutting board
For the lengthwise cut.
I'm much too klutzy to risk
Holding the ear.

And once again, THANK YOU for sharing ! ! !

Rusty

If I brought my kitchen torch out to burn corn silks off the cob, I'd have to make sure my DH didn't catch me! He says even the thought of me with a kitchen torch scares him...

We're having sweet corn tonight... I think I'll try the wet sponge/paper towel method of silk removal for chaka khan, I mean chuck a corn, uh, Shuck a Corn :-)

DC:
Am I in the right CF ???

It certainly is nice to hear Positive attitudes.

Rusty:
Why dont you admit, that you are getting rusty? LOL !!!
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Ci lantro:

We cooked corn that way on my Grandfathers Farm in NJ.
Just throw it in the wood fired cook stove.

That were many Moons ago !
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I have another Oldie for you guys.

"Those were the days my friend ,
We thought they'd never end "

" We'd sing and dance forever and a day ".

LOU, sung that

Lou,

We still toss corn into an open flame. New England is filled with old stone wood-fired stoves (used as BBQs now) & we are lucky enough to have one in our back gardens complete with oven although the oven door & floor are rusted out. Anyway, DH uses apple wood in the stove & we just toss the corn still in the husks into the fire. Oh, yum!

/tricia

Posted by ci_lantro "Cool, dcarch. Esp. if you have a lot of corn to clean for freezing or a big crowd. I'm OK w/ a few ears but my hands start protesting if there are more than a half dozen ears to clean. [If I'm grilling corn, I just toss the ears on the grill. No soaking, no removing silks. The silks pull away nicely after the corn has been cooked.] ----"

Thanks. Most of the time when I BBQ, I also toss the ears on the grill. I am not sure it is better, I do soak the ears in water first.

Posted by therustyone "That does look like it's even easier!
I agree with Nancy, It needs to lay on the cutting board For the lengthwise cut.
I'm much too klutzy to risk Holding the ear. And once again, THANK YOU for sharing ! ! ! Rusty"

Thanks. Yes Rusty, I am amazed that I didn't think of laying the corn on the cutting board.

Posted by bizzo "If I brought my kitchen torch out to burn corn silks off the cob, I'd have to make sure my DH didn't catch me! He says even the thought of me with a kitchen torch scares him... We're having sweet corn tonight... I think I'll try the wet sponge/paper towel method of silk removal for chaka khan, I mean chuck a corn, uh, Shuck a Corn :-) "

Thanks. Be careful with that Chaka Khan tune, or you will be like FOAS, humming it all week long. LOL.

Posted by hawk307 :
" --------Ci lantro: We cooked corn that way on my Grandfathers Farm in NJ. Just throw it in the wood fired cook stove.
That were many Moons ago !
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I wonder how Mr. Flintstone did it. :-)

"----Those were the days my friend ,
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
LOU, sung that"

Lou, stay with cooking, Please. :-)

Posted by triciae " Lou, We still toss corn into an open flame. New England is filled with old stone wood-fired stoves (used as BBQs now) & we are lucky enough to have one in our back gardens complete with oven although the oven door & floor are rusted out. Anyway, DH uses apple wood in the stove & we just toss the corn still in the husks into the fire. Oh, yum! /tricia "

Absolutely the best. I wait until the fat drips down from the meat on the charcoal, then I smoke and grill the corn.

dcarch

Had corn for supper last night.
Tried this method.
(sans torch, though)
It's amazing how much
that one simple slit down the side
Speeds things up!

I find a combination of the two methods
Works the best for me:
Cut off both ends,
Slit down the side,
Remove husks & silk,
Rub lightly with sponge
Voila! ! Done! ! !
A little silk left on the ears
Has never bothered us at all. . . ..

Thanks again, Dcarch.
Rusty

Hi, I don't usually come to this forum, but stopped by today and saw this post.(had to also look at shuck a corn #1 - great play on words!) I love all these ideas -here's another: I wear one close fitting rubber/latex glove when shucking which easily gets every last piece of silk when rubbed along the ear.

Brilliant idea, olychick!

Here's another thought. If shucking a large number of ears, it might be efficient to do it assembly line fashion, performing each step on all the ears before moving to the next step.

Jim

That's why sharing ideas is great. There are always something new to learn from.

Very smart idea olychick, and Jim, in fact, even if you are not shuck a large numbers of ears, your idea is still better than mine.

dcarch

"...your idea is still better than mine."

No, not better. Just something added to yours. I imagine making the first cut on every ear, then the second cut on every ear, etc. Maybe it would be fast, maybe not. I haven't tried it.

Jim