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Title: The Best Way to Cook Corn on the Cob for a Crowd?
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Published: Oct 19, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-10-19 22:40:26 by Critter
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It's Cooler Corn! Am I the only person who hasn't heard of "cooler corn"? As an obsessive food nerd, you'd expect that I would have at least heard of it, but over the weekend I was blind-sided by the simple genius of this method for cooking loads of corn on the cob perfectly. I was hepped to it while visiting my family in Maine. Short story: We like corn on the cob. And with eight adults at the table, that means a couple of dozen ears. We would have used the lobster pot to cook them all, but the lobster pot was busy steaming lobster. Then my sister, a capable Maine cook with years of camping experience, says "let's do cooler corn!" Before I can ask "what the heck is cooler corn?" a Coleman cooler appears from the garage, is wiped clean, then filled with the shucked ears. Next, two kettles-full of boiling water are poured over the corn and the top closed. Then nothing. When we sat down to dinner 30 minutes later and opened it, the corn was perfectly cooked. My mind was blown. And I'm told that the corn will remain at the perfect level of doneness for a couple of hours. Turns out, Cooler Corn is pretty well known among the outdoorsy set But for those of us who avoid tents as much as possible, it's perfect for large barbecues and way less of mess than grilling. In fact, I may even buy another cooler just so I'm ready for next summer. Now That I'm in the know.
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#1. To: Critter (#0)
You go first, and tell us if it works as advertised.
Today's corn taste as good as in the past or is there something GMOish about it?
It depends on what kind of cooler you have. A plastic one would be a bad idea to poor boiling water into. It might cook the corn, but with all the chemicals from the plastic leaking into the water and then the corn, it wouldn't be fit to eat.
God is always good!
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... w/ the husks and everything on it that is. What, you like to cook worms with your corn? LOL! Not that there would be a worm in every ear of course but if you don't shuck it you don't know which one(s) has/have the "extra protein." I have read that deep fried corn on the cob is good but of course they are talking about shucked and scrubbed, or at least I imagine that is what they meant.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein "...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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Take a bucket of water to a restaurant deep fryer, the water not only will survive as it escapes as steam, to will signal to others to come running to clean up the body nearby with quite a boom.
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Well, to me it would just be nasty but as Shirley Q. Liquor would say, "To each they own!" I'm sure it wouldn't "hurt" you other than the thought of eating a worm would make me gag and I probably couldn't eat the corn if I knew there was a worm cooked in with it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein "...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
My first job in high School was busing at a Sizzler Family Steakhouse. They had had a guy take the fresh from the fryer grease outside in a bucket and spray a strong stream into it from a garden hose while I worked there. He got his Darwin award, but didn't get the side of fries with it that would have been appropriate.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
Do what we did when I was at school. Drive around town for about a week collecting everything made of wood put out for rubbish. Two by fours & scrap lumber, old bedsteads, TVs, discarded signage, what have you. Nice hunks of seasoned tree limbs and tree trunks won't hurt anything either. Take several pickup loads way out into the country and build you a stack of combustibles about eight foot high. Obtain some large ice vats and a couple of half kegs of beer. Along about sundown add a suitable accelerante to your pyre, light it up and skedaddle until the blaze burns down a mite. Have a large roll of aluminum foil on hand and wrap up a bushel or two of well soaked corn on the cob. Some time around midnight, rake up a bunch of coals and bury your cobs well. Uncover when done and husk 'em hot. That's how corn tasts best. Cheers.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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#5. To: Eric Stratton (#4)
Anyone ever tried throwing a bunch of corn into a turkey fryer?
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"Nothing harmful survives the deep-fryer."
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