Corn On The Cob

My Mom taught me how to eat corn on the cob...

 

There are dozens of recipes on how to cook corn on the cob. Any will work OK as long as you don't over cook it. When it's done and preferably still warm, put the corn and a stick of butter on a plate in front of you.

Now slice a chunk off the stick of butter - the butter can be right out of the fridge, it doesn't need to be soft. With a little experience you'll learn the best amount, and it will vary as the corn is consumed.

 

Now don't be tempted to massage the corn with this chunk of butter. Trying to butter a cob of corn is messy, unproductive and a total waste of time. Put the butter directly in your mouth.

Now, without messing with the butter in your mouth, gnaw out a few rows of corn.

Then as you chew, mix the butter with the kernels... YUM!

But wait, there's more. Whack off another slab of butter - this time maybe a little smaller, and pop it in your mouth. Now position the cob so the lower row of corn is at your bottom teeth. Now learn how to nibble off just one row of the kernels.

 

Once you master this technique, just think - more butter at each row! And soon you'll be down to the coveted last row, all by it's lonesome. This is the prize!

And when it's all over, you'll have totally obliterated the cob like the top one in the picture. The bottom cob shows the waste at consuming more than one row at a time.

Once you learn this technique, you'll never look at corn on the cob the same again.