Microwave Corn on Cob Complete With Husks and Silk

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears......

I suppose by the time I get around to doing a post on a tip I saw - and tried -  that you've all seen and tried this on you own?

Oh well.

I'm gonna write sort of a corny post anyway (as that joke proves to be lame at best).

And I'm also gonna make sure I type the word corn and corny correctly each time.  They are the kind of words if I type them wrong, spell check won't catch - and it will take this post to a very dark place on the internet with stalks stripped down to their golden bits.

At the beginning of August when the sweet corn harvest was bountiful around here, I saw a little video on cooking corn, husks and all, in the microwave.

I contemplated how if that worked, and most importantly if it tasted good, the time it could save.

Well it worked, and it tasted great.

We've always given the corn shucking duties to the kids, and removing the silk is the part everyone hates.  It shucks.

They also argue while they do this job.  Yes really.

I'm not sure what it is about getting corn ready to eat that brings out the worst in people, but since the dawn of time at our house someone always complains they readied more cobs than the next person.

At the peak of Ranch meals when all six kids lived at home with their two parents, if everyone was to receive 2 ears of the sweet stuff that meant cleaning a minimum of 16 ears of corn.

When corn was fresh out of the fields two ears was never enough for Brawn or the older boys, so often times it was two dozen ears bubbling away in a pot on the stove.

I decided to give this microwave tip a try one night when we didn't need a big pot of corn to slather in butter, but just a few ears.

And I'll be danged if it didn't work exactly as easy as the video I watched.  There are a whole field of videos to view, so click {here} to see the simple one I first saw.

The only thing I did different was soak my corn for a little while in a sink of cold water.  Why?  I don't know, but when we grill it husks on, we soak it first so I decided to add that step.

I cooked 4 soaked ears for 8 minutes in the microwave.  These were thick large cobs.  Maybe less time would be fine for smaller cobs.

When the timer dings the corn will be really hot, so grab a pot holder first and cut off the end piece opposite the tassels on the silk hat.

Any of you country kids ever detassel corn for the seed companies in summer?  I'm a city girl and I still don't understand all that corn detasseling lingo.

I think soaking the corn helped it cook to perfection.  The first time I tried only one ear without soaking it and I thought the kernels were tough.  Soaking them first was like they steamed themselves inside the husks.

Then.... all you do is wiggle a cob out of the husks, silk and all.

The corn flopped right out of the husks and four of us had a silk free hot steamy piece of golden deliciousness with our dinner.

Sweet and juicy, cooked to just the right tenderness.

Best of all no one was complaining that they shucked more cobs and got the silk off better than the other person.

So this tip keeps the peace in the family.

And now that Fall is here, it's apple pie, sauce, and apple butter making time around my place.

I've seen a few videos with apple tips that I might have to try and also one on speed peeling taters for Thanksgiving.  I hope they actually work as good as this silk free corn cooking does!