Talk:Corn on the cob

(In husk)

cooked in the husk? I've never heard of that before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.93.252 (talk) 07:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

   I can see two reasons to go that route:

1. For a sufficiently large crowd, it could perhaps keep them warm during the trip from pot to plate, but experiment beforehand to confirm my hypothesis.
2. If you're cooking for foreign guests you want to impress, it seems to me that it might add drama, heightening the sense of barely refined New World barbarism!

   But i wouldn't consider it otherwise: shucking hot corn-otc sounds like a fool's errand with potential for minor burns; just toss it in shucked, take it out of the pot with tongs & shove the skewers into the ends before anyone can get hurt, IMO.
    In the case of your continental guests: drain the pot, put the lid back on, & bring the pot to the table. Wear well-fitting oven mitts to shuck it, holding it by the stalk and stripping back the husk without touching the kernels. You could have a jig (four dowels sticking out of a board) to hold the cob still while you break off the stalk (and the husk will go with it) or cut the stalk off with a serrated knife, and then stick in the skewers. Pass plates down the table, or put all that on the cart and go from diner to diner. Now, that's theater!
--Jerzy•t 23:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

(Cooking time)

cook for how long?Andycjp (talk) 09:08, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Good question; I know a friend from college who would eat vegetables and even soups out of the can, so I was curious if it even needed cooked, though I'm sure it probably wouldn't taste as good raw.
I've put it in the microwave in a wet paper towel for 30 seconds, I think a couple minutes
209.244.187.155 (talk) 21:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC) & —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.30.221 (talk) 22:31, 2 August 2008

The following contrib was mistakenly posted inside a signed contrib, an accidental act of forgery. (And the contributor clearly intended to comment on the first 'graph rather than the preceding contrib as a whole.)^{--Jerzy•t 23:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)}

vegetables and soups out of the can are already cooked... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.189.147.143 (talk) 01:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

   I love it at 2-3 minutes, but i see cooks recommending as much as 10. Apparently the chemistry implies at least 2 and not much more than 10. But an authoritative source should be IDed.
--Jerzy•t 23:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Roasted field corn

   The first 10 G-hits (of "about 3,550 results") for

"corn on the cob" "field corn"

either use the two terms in different passages, or emphasize sweet corn rather than field corn as appropriate for CotC. The first hit that differs from that pattern is #13, "Mexican corn on the cob: Elotes : Mexican Recipe" which says

I prefer the blue-green field corn this way, but sweet corn can also be used.

However, at Blue corn, and most sites that are hits for

"zea mays" "Blue corn"

there is no hint of which of the field-corn types (of 4 acknowledged by Purdue [School of] Agriculture) is intended, and Purdue says both

1. that it is flour corn and
2. that there is insignificant commercial flour-corn production in the U.S.

The accompanying article has been incoherent from inception until now, being unequivocal in the lead sent that CotC and the article are about sweet corn, yet referring later to CotC w/ field corn.
   I have removed that sent for adaptation at Field corn, with an appropriate Dab HatNote, partly in light of the foregoing, and also since clearly the primary sense of CotC concerns sweet corn: Googling

"corn on the cob" "sweet corn"

gives 18 times the hits, and of the first 10 that are not the accompanying article, all but one clearly juxtapose the two terms in a way that expects the reader to use sweet corn for their CotC. And please note that the lead and title do not imply "Corn cooked and/or served on its cob is never properly called "corn on the cob" if made with flour corn, flint corn, or dent corn" (let alone "Corn on the cob is never made with flour corn, flint corn, nor dent corn"); rather they mean that we have concluded that "CotC" is predominantly used to mean sweet corn cooked and served on its cob.
--Jerzy•t 06:30, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

FFA

   I removed

The National FFA Organization (formerly the Future Farmers of America) uses the cross section of the corncob (to represent unity) on the FFA logo.

There may be place (presumably already occupied) for something like that in the org's article, but it is erroneous and in fact offensive to suggest that it is relevant in a CotC article. The FFA is a youth professional organization, not a consumer org for the appreciation of agriculture, and whatever else the ear represents (the cob alone, BTW could not well symbolize unity), its use is appropriate in large part bcz of the enormous role of field corn in American agriculture. There's about 99 times the land and probably labor devoted to field corn as sweet corn, and only a dumb city kid would suggest that graphic is remotely about corn on the cob.
--Jerzy•t 06:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore, if you look carefully at the logo, you'll see that the kernels have a concave top (characteristic of dent corn) and not the convex top of sweet corn. --ABehrens (talk) 21:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Ways to Eat Corn on the cob

There are many ways you can cook corn on the cob. My personal favorite is the way Original Corn on the Cob or Mr Corn roasts corn. They use Texas Corn roasters and then you can put different Kernels popcorn seasonings on it like dill pickle, salt and vinegar, oh so Ranch etc/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Originalcornonthecob (talk • contribs) 03:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Actually the part speaking of sweet corn being the only one eaten directly from the cob is untrue, in Mexico is preety common to eat regular corn from the cob, sometimes with chilli powder, lemon, salt, cream and cheese.

"Ear" is nowhere defined in this article

Nor do I know the definition. Perhaps a corn expert could define this term before it is used (so extensively) throughout this article. N0w8st8s (talk) 09:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)n0w8st8s

I've added a link to wikt:ear#earofcorn. -sche (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Nutritional Information

How about adding a section with calories, carbs, etc.? (PS thats what I was looking for, but did not find in article) Asaduzaman (talk) 08:30, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Sugar converted to starch

The sentence “ After being picked, the corn's sugar converts into starch: it takes only one day for it to lose up to 25% of its sweetness, so it is ideally cooked on the same day as it is harvested.” seems incorrect, after fruit is picked sugars tend to break down, not build up. Why would sugars become starch after it no longer has an energy imput. also the source doesn’t look like it’s good. 97.126.85.208 (talk) 17:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)