Shucking Corn, How to Shuck Corn, Shuck Corn, How to Shuck Corn on the Cob

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Shucking Corn, How to Shuck Corn, Shuck Corn, How to Shuck Corn on the Cob This is one of those things that some of us grew up with - a chore usually assigned to the back porch, along with stringing beans or shelling peas. Shucking corn isn't hard, and learning how to shuck corn is a simple matter of knowing what to look for. Check out how easy it is!
Jan: All right. Are you ready? Okay. All right. It is the middle of July. That means it's corn season, and there is nothing better on the planet than corn on the cob. It is one of my favorite things. It is also one of those things that, when it is not done right, it's just nasty. We do not want to ruin perfect, succulent, delicious... No. Okay. So, shucking corn, do you have a method?

Lanthe 2: My method?

Jan: Your method. Now, the thing about shucking corn, you're only after one thing really. You want the silks out of the way. Okay? Now, what Lanthe is doing is simply stripping it back like this and pulling all the husks off. There is another way you can do this. You have to be a little bit tricky and a little bit careful, but it also means that you have some more [inaudible 00:01:08].

Okay, so what Lanthe has done is what most of us are familiar with, and all we would do here is take this end and pop that off and we twist all the silks. All right? Now that goes under running water with the full scrub brush, and then it is ready to go. You could drop that in boiling water. You can wrap it in foil and throw it on the grill. You can roast it, although it's a little tricky without the husk on it.

Now, what I'm doing is something that has become more and more popular lately. It is absolutely phenomenal to roast corn either in the oven or on the grill. To do that, you end up wrapping it in foil. But lately we have found that you don't have to wrap it in foil because it comes with its own perfect little wrapper.

Now, when you're doing it, work your way around the ear, just like that, and you are going to remove as many of these as possible, the silks. Take this over to the sink and scrub them. You have to be careful not to lose your wrappers here. Now, one thing I have wrote over and over and over again is that you have to soak your corn before you cook it.

So, you would take this plain corn, soak this in water, [inaudible 00:02:32] 20 minutes, or overnight, or whatever. I'll tell you this, I've never done it once, and my corn is awesome.

So, you do not have to take the step of soaking it in water. The one thing you would want to soak it in water is if the outside husk is real dry. Because, when you throw it on the fire the corn burns up, and that's not delicious. Actually, charred corn, it ain't bad [inaudible 00:02:54].

Lanthe: [inaudible 00:02:54] corn.

Jan: Yeah. This is the right species. Okay. So corn on the cob, with or without the husk, get rid of the silk, scrub it, soak [inaudible 00:03:05] That is really all there is to it. So, we're not going to soak it. We are going to grill it. So, we'll show you that next.

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Jan: Okay, it's July and we've got more corn [inaudible 00:03:34]...