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Saturday, September 17. 2011

Corn on the barbie

Here's how we cook corn on the cob: After removing the most loose outer husk, we soak the ears in cold water for an hour or so with husks on and silk still present, then toss them on the grill, turning regularly for roughtly 15 minutes.


They steam and char a little. Some of the husk will char a bit, and most of the silk will burn off. That's good.


Peel and eat. For me, no butter, no salt on it. Tastes good the cave man way.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 12:18 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Interesting.
We usually take the time to removed the silk and leave the husk on. We only soak for 15 minutes after removing the silk.
I was surprised to read the silk burns off. We will try that now.
I love corn on the barbie. Much better than boiled.
#1 Rick on 2011-09-17 13:02 (Reply)
--slather on that butter, get your store teeth out of your overalls bib, and go to it!
#2 buddy larsen on 2011-09-17 13:23 (Reply)
It is done when the outer huck are the color of a brown paper bag.
#3 Jim on 2011-09-17 13:52 (Reply)
Sounds good, I'll try it.

It sounds much better than the method my Irish father used to use, remove all the husk and silk, slather with butter, salt & pepper then wrap in foil.
#4 John the River (Link) on 2011-09-17 17:00 (Reply)
That's pretty much how I do it. Well, I don't soak them that long though.
#5 orbitup on 2011-09-17 21:02 (Reply)
Don't bother doing anything but putting them right on the grill for a few minutes a side.
it takes time to figger out the time and heat level, depending on your grill, but soaking is superfluous. There's enough water in corn, naturally, to keep it moist, I've found.
#6 Dan III on 2011-09-18 00:17 (Reply)
effete. corn. fire. no prep. eat.
#7 Fred Z on 2011-09-18 01:07 (Reply)

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