How do you eat corn on the cob?

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I think most people eat corn on the cob by holding it at each end and gnawing on it going round and round.
Try this method: Before going into the boiling water/steamer/grill cut the cobs into 1 1/2"-2" slices. When the corn is ready eat the 'slices' 'top to bottom' or 'bottom to top'. You'll find you get A LOT more of the corn kernel this way. In other words eat the slices from the top of the tree downwards or the other way around instead of eating the tree going 'around' the trunk.
Also easier to serve/plate also.

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I am having trouble visualizing your description.

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I steam and then eat whole au natural.

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I'll try this. The reason I very rarely fix corn is because it's a hassle to eat it whole on the cob. To me anyway.

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I do not shuck ears before microwaving them, which adds flavor as the corn "steams" inside the husk, and makes the silks come off easily once the ear is cool enough to shuck. But I may try cutting the cooked ears into rounds, since I don't butter my corn. I think the smaller pieces might be sloppy if buttered.

I recall seeing Martha Stewart sectioning corn that way on her show some years ago, but don't remember if that was before or after (or how) she cooked it.

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Wow - so many ways to eat corn on the cob! My preference is to eat it like a typewriter. Left to right, rotate, return! Of course, I use corn holders.

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I love corn on the cob, but the corn I grew up with, small kernel white corn, is hard to find in Texas. So instead of doing the minimal boil or steam route I have gone to a faux Mexican street corn. Make a mixture of mayonnaise, lime, and Sriracha, slather it on, and grill it. OMG. Little is left. I am not sure that you could grill two inch chukka, but I will try it.

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I have always eaten end-to-end, left to right, typewriter style. Ding! (if anyone remembers what a typewriter is.)

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I've only had corn that way in soup or barbecue packets. I hadn't thought of doing it myself. But I'd wonder about how many kernels I was losing to each cut.

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I like to eat it one niblet at a time. Picking them off with my fingers.

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One evening my family had a friend of my brother's over for dinner--the kid was probably about seven--and one of the courses was corn on the cob. Well, little Scottie buttered, salted and peppered his corn and proceeded to get after it typewriter style until every last kernel was gone. The corn shrapnel was a-flyin', our eyes were a-buggin' and not once did the kid come up for air. Upon doing his piranha job on the corn, Scottie looked up at us and in his pronounced west Texas drawl said, "I liiiike corn."

I guess you had to be there.

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I'll stick with what I enjoy: playing typewriter :::ding!::: with my corn on the cob when I'm eating it from left to right, roll it a bit, and do the same thing.

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I go typewriter style and I don't miss a kernel.

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A couple of years ago, I mentioned to my husband that I'd read that some people eat fresh corn "raw," and since then, he's never eaten it any other way. But it's how he eats it that is the most odd . . . since he was a kid (he reports), he has eaten around the cob in a spiral. I think he once told me it was originally done to annoy his siblings . . . and he's been doing it ever since!

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Although I ate it a lot as a kid, lately it's just been at street stall bbq places in China. They'd take a used Gatorade bottle, fill it with "something" red, among other vague, but often tasty, spices, and sprinkle it on the cob. It's just one out of many delights at a nighttime Chinese bbq.

The corn you see in the daytime in China is terrible. It's feed corn.



Jonathan
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Left to right, 3 rows at a chomp.

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Like a total slob.

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