This thread reminded me that it's about time to post the annual how to nuke corn on the cob vid.

Thanks for the post Jim. I actually forgot that veggies can be cooked quite well with a microwave. In fact I read this in a short article, makes sense...

"In a food science class I took a few years ago — a lab-based class held in a large teaching kitchen — the professor forbade the use of microwaves, though there was one at every station. “I just don’t feel they are safe,” she told us.

Seriously? This instructor had a master’s of science degree, which says something about how widespread the fear and prejudice against microwave ovens are, and how deep the emotions run. But the truth is that cooking in microwaves is not only perfectly safe, it is one of the best ways to cook vegetables to preserve their nutrients.

When it comes to cooking vegetables, exposure to heat causes the breakdown of some nutrients, such as vitamin C. Certain types of nutrients are also water-soluble, which means they leach out of the vegetables and into the cooking water. So you retain the most nutrients by cooking vegetables quickly and limiting their contact with water."

I remember that I read someplace that boiling vegetables, not only does the vitamins and nutrients leach out, you were better off drinking the water and eating the veggies just for the fiber content, other than eating a lot of fruits.

So really the best use of a nuke oven is cooking popcorn. Its just a well established fact. Most anything else is just rubbish, pushed by food freaks to make them look respectable. I thought Shugart was going to show us how to pop corn on the cob. It'd save effort of shelling the darn things.

If Shugart posts it, it's a trick.
I'm going to stick to the hot water method.
Nice try Shugart!

I have tried the nuke method and the kernals didn't seem to soften like the boil method and as the cook, I have people (accusing) depending on me.

"People who boil corn in water should themselves be boiled in water." - Nero Wolfe.

The nuke method is the quickest and easiest. It's what I usually do. Stick that fucker in the microwave and ~5 minutes later you're chowing down.

If you want some REALLY great corn on the cob, try this:
- shuck, clean, and dry the corn well
- wrap it in aluminum foil
- cook it in a hot (475°F) oven for about 45 minutes.

The corn will emerge so awesome that adding butter is almost superfluous (but we do).

Trust me on this, you won't be sorry.

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Originally posted by rburg:
So really the best use of a nuke oven is cooking popcorn.

And nachos.

Now if I could just get reliably non-GMO ears of corn.....

We've been cooking corn on the cob in the microwave for years. Quick, easy and just as tasty as other ways of doing it.

Jim

Yeah, the microwave method has been posted here many times before, it does work.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
This thread reminded me that it's about time to post the annual how to nuke corn on the cob vid.

I don't know if it was you who posted the first video I saw on this but a very large THANK YOU!! goes out to you or that member.
This is by far the best way to have quick corn on the cob that is so easy, we were eating it just for a snack.
I showed my sister how to do it and she asked, "Why the hell were we boiling water for all these years!"

I cut off some of the hairy stuff at the end and a few of the outer blades. I then put the corn small end up under a running faucet to get water in the corn and between the corn husks.

I do the 3 minute per corn, 5 minute for 2 corns in the microwave.

Cut the big end off and squeeze it like I learned here. I need to get those mitts that let you handle hot stuff however.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
"People who boil corn in water should themselves be boiled in water." - Nero Wolfe.

That bought a smile to my face. I probably have every single Nero Wolf book Rex Stout every wrote. Been years since I’ve read any of them, but have fond memories of Wolf riding his elevator up to tend to his orchids.