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Sweet Corn............
William81
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Neighbor had a bumper crop this year. We ended up with a gross of some fine sweet corn. I just finished cutting it all up and my bride and I put 20 bags of corn into the freezer…. We ate a couple dozen last week and enjoyed the corn on the cob….. I love good sweet corn !!!!!
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Good times! I always liked field corn on the cob too.
Ohhh yeah
Good neighbors for sure
Break out the butter and salt
Should've ate that while watching "Secondhand Lions".
I've ate so much corn on the cob lately, the chickens are following me around.
I had plenty of corn. I have tried a lot of different corn, but Incredibles flavor is unreal. It tastes like it has butter on but doesn't.
The corn here has been the best in years. Sugar sweet.
Love summer food .....….
Corn on the cob is in the top 3 of my favorite foods.
I've only had 3 so far this summer. Ours isn't quite ready yet. But the Amish corn tastes great too.
Joe
Over the years, I've learned a couple of corn tricks.
One: apply the butter with a fork. It stays put on the fork and spreads much more evenly.
Two: dust the butter with Tajin, the Mexican fruit spice. Wonderful. (Tajin is sea salt, lime juice crystals, and cayenne pepper. Good on a lot of things.)
Sweet corn came off here during the last week of July. Got 20 dozen ears in the freezer.
Incredible is great. Bodacious is right there and peaches and cream is close. Don
Ate a few more servings today…….good stuff…
I did not know there were so many varieties of corn.
Try it basted with mayo (Duke's) instead of butter. I was introduced to it like that by some southern folks at a catered venue. Been eating it that way ever since.
Mayo and Tajin are what they use for Mexican Street Corn, after roasting the ears over charcoal. Boy Howdy is it good.
Ambrosia is another very sweet corn.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
Kevin, just consider Duke's to "identify as" white butter.
I just got done chewing my way through a corn cob. It took me 10 minutes to get all the butter out of my beard.
Joe 😁
@Bubba Jr. better look than mayonnaise…
Ok ok ok….we've been avoiding the topic like it was "9mm vs 45acp" but…..
if you eat corn on the cob "typewriter style", yer doing it WRONG!!!! Yeah….I said it. You gotta go "rotisserie" to get full flavor.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
I remember watching a young kid trying to eat corn on the cob without front teeth…… He got it done using a modified typewriter style. 😁
Full circle each end to make good handles, then typewriter.
I've been doing my best to make a rectangle out of the cob.
We have not had a garden last. Few years just did not have the time to take care of itlike it should be
But I miss the fresh corn and green beans ant potatoes right out of the garden to my plate
We Plan on hitting up the farmers market this weekend and see what we can come up with.
Goal next year get back to having our own garden again nothing like growing it yourself
As far as buttering corn I used a fork most of my life to get in on the corn but we started melting the butter In the microwave and just brushing it on the corn . JMHO works great and can really get it soaked in butter ( just what my bad heart needs ( LOL)
I have plenty of corn, I gave most away this year as it was not needed. This freezer is just about full.
It is Incredible and Peaches and Cream. A lot of cutting off of corn in the freezer.
One of my gardens early in the year.
If a * gets near my corn in the garden, he/she meets their demise in about 10 seconds from the big white dog in the picture.
I always liked Honey Select. A very sweet corn but I can't plant it anymore because of the deer. They like it more than I do.
I miss access to Iowa sweet corn. But I must say, butter and Tony Chachere's on sweet corn is hard to beat.
We plant Ambrosia and Honey Select most years. One is a bi-color and the other a yellow. Both are good, but I think the Honey Select may be a bit sweeter. The 3rd planting often adds some Jack Pot, but I think it's about the same as the Ambrosia. We have had some Bodacious, but I didn't think it was any better than the others and the other seed comes "free" with the purchase of a few thousand dollars worth of field corn seed. We plant a fair amount, usually pick 4 to 5 hundred dozen a year before we get tired of it, and give most of it away. Most of that goes to the local food bank, but the neighbors do get a fair amount. Our freezer seems to catch enough to get us through to the next year most of the time. This year might get a bit dicey since wet ground kept us from planting until June, but it will work out, like it always does.
I have a first cousin that has made a fortune over the past 30 or more years growing and selling his famous sweet corn. Though I have asked him several times to share the variety of corn he grows, he has kept it very secretive, even amongst his own family.
A few years ago, I was attending a gun show down in the metro Detroit area (some 300 miles away) and when a guy asked me who I was and where I was from, then asked me if I was the same guy that grew that super sweet corn up north? I just was totally amazed how the word has spread!
We have a separate butter dish just for sweet corn. Lay a slab of butter on it, stick the corn handles in and roll it around on the butter until covered.
lay corn on aluminum foil, 3 pads of butter, roll corn up in foil and cook 5 minutes on the 4 for sides on the grill, total 20 minutes. Magnifiquet.
Yeah, same here.