Corn on the cob clutter
Summertime ushers in all sorts of food choices, but over at the Amazon blog it can bring clutter in the form of the Five Essential Corn Tools post.
Five!?! Essential? A person who enjoys their corn-on-the-cob can prepare it pretty easily and skip these essential items by eating the corn off of a regular plate using their hands. Lets examine these essentials:
- Non-Stick Corn Basket: Ok this thing is kind of interesting, but how often does one grill corn? If you find yourself grilling corn quite a bit, you may already have something in your grilling arsenal that can be used rather than this corn unitasker.
- Porcelain Corn Dishes: Use a regular plate. It’s that simple.
- Butter Boy: Another corn unitasker. I just don’t see the butter knife as being a difficult utensil to master.
- Interlocking Corn Holders: Use your hands! It is corn-on-the-cob not filet mignon.
- Corn Zipper: Need to remove the corn from the cob? Use the same knife you used to put butter on your ear.
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Posted by Matt on Jul 4, 2007 |
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Posted by robin - 07/04/2007
Instead of the Butter Boy, just butter a piece of bread, and roll the ear of corn on it. Or, if you are me, roll 3 ears of corn on it. (I love corn on the cob.) Then eat the bread with melted butter. Mmmmmmm.
Posted by Brian - 07/04/2007
Matt, I was with you until you got to the corn stickers. I like to eat my corn scalding hot. Try holding a hot ear of corn long enough to actually eat it. Then there’s all the salt, pepper and melted butter. Add a 3-year-old child to mix, and you have a recipe for a pure mess. So I think the holders are well worth the price, especially if, like us, you eat corn once a week or more in season.
And Robin, a big thumbs up on using a buttered roll to butter your corn. That’s how we do it in my house.
Posted by Harald - 07/04/2007
My favourite corn butterer is a large vase about 2/3 full of hot water. Add melted butter, which floats on top of the water; the hot water keeps the butter liquid.
Simply dunk your corn; the butter sticks to it on the way down and back! And when you’re not buttering your corn, you can put flowers in it
Posted by Amy - 07/04/2007
I agree with Brian on the corn stickers. Ditto and the hot, buttery and slippery cobs. Ditto with a 6 and 7 year old. They are a must….
Posted by leslie Sloan - 07/04/2007
I just threw my butter boy in the garbage two days ago because I knew that it only served one purpose and I almost never eat corn on the cob! Bah!
Posted by leslie Sloan - 07/04/2007
I just threw my butter boy in the garbage two days ago because I knew that it only served one purpose and I almost never eat corn on the cob! Bah!
Posted by leslie Sloan - 07/04/2007
I just threw my butter boy in the garbage two days ago because I knew that it only served one purpose and I almost never eat corn on the cob! Bah!
Posted by Nat - 07/04/2007
Re: grilling corn. I learned to grill it in the husk. Just clean out the silk and make sure the husks a moist by soaking them for a bit. Not only does the husk take the brunt of the fire, but also it holds in all the butter and seasonings (I like to add chili.) that you can add to it before cooking. Also, since the husks which cool off faster than the cob you can also peel them back to make a nice handle for eating too.
Posted by Andrea - 07/04/2007
Corn holders are a necessity in the Midwest, where we eat corn almost every day when it’s in season. Ditto on the little corn plates–it keeps melted butter from getting all over the rest of your food.
Posted by persimmon - 07/04/2007
Am I the only one who got an image of someone holding a knife up to her head, carefully applying butter to her ear?
Never mind.
Posted by Zach - 07/05/2007
A Corn Zipper is a necessity for freezing purposes and it is rare that I see it marketed toward anything but. When bushel after bushel comes in to freeze, all it takes is a small Corn Zipper, a nail and a board to clear the cobs in no time. Not everyone does this, but then again not everyone is buying a Corn Zipper
Posted by Dale Cruse - 07/05/2007
I’m from Indiana and sometimes think that corn is in my blood!
I’ve always found a butter knife an inelegant solution for a round surface like and ear of corn. It just doesn’t spread well. Instead, I use a brush similar to the one I use to smear BBQ sauce on meat. MUCH better coverage – and definitely not a unitasker!
Posted by Laura - 07/06/2007
We always just put a stick of butter on the plate of the butter dish and roll the corn on the top. Yeah, it leaves a weird dip in the top and it’s rare that we use a whole stick of butter at one meal, but who cares? The brush in a little pot of melted butter is a good one too.
And I agree, in the midwest especially, ear holders are a worthwhile unitasker.
Posted by Bob - 07/07/2007
I don’t know if it showed up the same for anyone else, but Amazon offers me a discount if I buy the corn zipper along with…a previously covered unitasker, the OXO mango splitter!
Posted by Liz - 07/10/2007
My family takes a stick of butter and pulls the paper back off of one end. Use like a pencil, scribble butter all over the corn. Same concept as the corn butter plate, only you ruin less butter. (not that you cna’t just put the butter in the fridge for the next session of corn, but y’know. Family oddities)
Posted by Linda B - 07/26/2007
You have to have the corn butterer, but do you know how difficult it is to find one? Now that corn is ready, the corn butterer is considered out of season!
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