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The Easiest Way To Cook Corn. Ever.

April 25, 2020 by Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

Everyone has a method for cooking corn on the cob, but I reckon Pete’s is by far the easiest (the man is a genius).

We don’t do anything to the cob – we don’t remove the husk or silk, nor do we wash it. If there are lots of fibres on the top, we cut them off with a pair of kitchen scissors.

Then…we put one cob on the turntable of the microwave and cook it on high for one and a half minutes. (our microwave is 1000 watts).

Then we turn it over and cook it on high for another one and a half minutes.

That’s it.

Honest.

Let it cool for a minute or two so you don’t burn yourself, then peel it and eat it.

You can scale up to more cobs at one time, but that involves a bit more trial and error. Please let me know if you try this – it would be nice to know it works in kitchens other than ours! ♥

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  1. on April 25, 2020 at 5:43 am helenogorman2013

    Strangely enough I was taught virtually the same method by an old Scottish man Donald (who also kept ducks ) on my allotment site . He grows the most amazing corn and gave me a cob to try and told me to cook it like that. It was delicious and so fresh and sweet


    • on April 25, 2020 at 5:49 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Hahaha maybe Pete didn’t invent it after all then! He’s just told me he read it somewhere, but I always just default to assuming he’s a genius. 🤣


  2. on April 25, 2020 at 5:45 am Manuela

    That is an easy way to cook corn! It looks delicious.
    Unfortunately my microwave never worked the same after we burnt popcorn in it.


  3. on April 25, 2020 at 6:08 am Darlene

    Yes, the best way to cook corn! I’ve always done it this way also, but can’t remember who taught me. It’s far superior to boiling them in water!


  4. on April 25, 2020 at 6:59 am katechiconi

    I strip the husk, wrap the cob in a cloth napkin and nuke it for 1 minute on each side, which seems to be enough. Maybe the napkin helps to ‘steam’ the cob by holding it in…? It also stops the microwave steaming up so much!


  5. on April 25, 2020 at 7:23 am lorikandice

    That is what I ALWAYS do!! The corn retains all that delicious flavor too! I’m a Texas girl now living in the beautiful state of South Carolina-and it works both places!😉


  6. on April 25, 2020 at 7:33 am China Dream

    I do this all the time have been doing my corn in the micro for years now.6 cobs 12, 13 minutes, I will even leave them in the plastic bag so that the steam swirls all around the cobs when I do more cobs.I stack them if need be in the bag. 100% success all the time.


  7. on April 25, 2020 at 8:57 am Jenny

    I used to microwave my corn but it never cooked evenly, could have been my dodgy machine. Now, like Pete does, I shove the whole cobs in the oven and it comes out perfect every time.
    By the way, that corn looks amazing!


  8. on April 25, 2020 at 10:24 am Jasmin

    Always our way to microwave corn on cobs, but we do it for 5min :) After cooking we remove the husk and silk by cutting off the stem end and gently pulling off the husk at the silk end in one motion, most of the time it pulls off all the silk as well. Also if our corn doesn’t have a husk, we use a dampened paper towel to wrap each individual cob, then microwave. Not sure what to use to replace a paper towel, haven’t tried with anything more enviro friendly yet.


  9. on April 25, 2020 at 10:54 am Diane Campbell

    Nearly. I remove the silk then replace the leaves, sometimes with a quick rinse to add steam. I find silk easier to remove when its cold…


  10. on April 25, 2020 at 1:41 pm nelevi

    Yes, I cook mine exactly the same. Then, I slice off about 0.5cm at the bottom, squeeze from the hairy top, and the peeled cob comes sliding out. No hairy mess to deal with! There’s a little bit of waste, but the chickens don’t complain about that.


  11. on April 25, 2020 at 4:20 pm daleleelife101.blog

    Yep… we do this too. Although I do like corn oven roasted with butter, or bbqed with a drizzle of olive oil.


  12. on April 25, 2020 at 5:54 pm Anne Wheaton

    “Let it cool for a minute or two so you don’t burn yourself” – if only. I always burn the roof of my mouth. Every. Single. Time. I don’t have a microwave so still in the saucepan of boiling water for me.


  13. on April 25, 2020 at 7:26 pm Sue R

    You are right or Pete is. No need to do more fiddly things than this. Just bung it in and done.


  14. on April 25, 2020 at 11:32 pm joanne the geek

    That’s how i cook corn too.


  15. on April 28, 2020 at 9:31 am Itching for Hitching

    Always cook it in the micro, perfect.


  16. on April 29, 2020 at 7:41 am Diana Ditchfield

    Celia, that is the way I cook corn too. Recently told my mother ( an excellent cook) to cook corn this way & she was very happy with the result. Isn’t corn delicious at the moment?



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