cab
|
How long is sweetcorn good for?Picking lively fat sweetcorn from the allotment at the moment. How long will it be good for, before it's past it's best? Basically, how fast do we have to stuff it down ourselves?
For freezing, should I blanch it, remove from the cobs and freeze that way?
And is it worth seed saving? It was an f1 variety.
|
tahir
|
Modern varieties are OK for a few days but I don't mind them even after they've started going starchy.
|
cab
|
| tahir wrote: | | Modern varieties are OK for a few days but I don't mind them even after they've started going starchy. |
A few days? Bugger, we'd better get eating ]fast 
|
sean
|
For freezing, blanch whole then either freeze whole or remove the kernels and just freeze them.
|
Behemoth
|
Clean well and remove all silk. Cut off top of cob. Wash, blanch a few cobs at a time for 5-7 minutes, depending on size. Chill in iced water 5-7 minutes. Drain and wrap each cob in plastic wrap. Pack in freezer bags, remove air, label and seal. Freeze up to 6 months.
A year or so ago Kitchen Garden had a whole load of advice on removing the kernels and blancing them and freezin as they take up less freezer space. Apperntly you can pop the kernels of by using a teaspoon or finger nail, it's easier once you get a row going. I've never been able to resist eating them so I've never needed to freeze them.
|
cab
|
I planted a lot of sweetcorn (can't recall the number... 16 or 25 or something) so freezing is definitely the way forward! Thanks for the advice.
Getting the corn off the cobs is still the only thing I'm hazy on. Looks laborious.
Edit: Although I planted a lot, I'm not SURE that they're all going to give me good cobs... You can water as much as you like, but it's never as good as rain 
|
bagpuss
|
| cab wrote: |
A few days? Bugger, we'd better get eating ]fast |
You could give us sweetcorn this evening I am sure no one would object!
|
cab
|
| bagpuss wrote: | | cab wrote: |
A few days? Bugger, we'd better get eating ]fast |
You could give us sweetcorn this evening I am sure no one would object! |
If you'd been more attentive to eating courgettes then maybe
If you're lucky...
|
bagpuss
|
| cab wrote: |
If you'd been more attentive to eating courgettes then maybe
|
You never gave us any courgettes to eat!
|
judith
|
| bagpuss wrote: | | You never gave us any courgettes to eat! |
That's a very risky thing to say, Bagpuss!
|
Bernie66
|
In my experience you lose the sweetness of sweetcorn virtually immediately. I would always pick it last thing and hurry home to get the full benefit, same with peas. That "just picked" sweetness goes rapidly. As for F1's they will grow and flower but won't set fruit unless all of my trials were a complete flop for other reasons
|
Lozzie
|
Lozzie's Dumb Question for Today:
Can you dry the cobs, remove the kernels and grind them for flour - like, to make tortillas out of?
Or is that a bit too much like hard work?  
|
cab
|
| bagpuss wrote: | | cab wrote: |
If you'd been more attentive to eating courgettes then maybe
|
You never gave us any courgettes to eat! |
'Cos you kept saying no.
But you're bloody well getting courgettes tonight.
|
judith
|
| Lozzie wrote: | Lozzie's Dumb Question for Today:
Can you dry the cobs, remove the kernels and grind them for flour - like, to make tortillas out of?
Or is that a bit too much like hard work? |
Yes and no. I think the corn for tortilla flours is a hard "dent" variety, just as the corn for popping isn't one of the supersweet eating types.
That said, if you do dry any corn and grind it up, you will get a flour from it, just as you could pop any variety of corn.
Whether it is worth the effort not using the correct variety, well that is something else entirely.
Oh, and corn is supposed to be a real pig to grind - much harder than wheat.
I do think you should try it, though, and let us know how you get on 
|
Nanny
|
sweetcorni agree that you should pick and eat asap
do that and you will NEVER so it any other way again
if you decide to take it off the cob you can cut it off but however you do it the result is a pig of a job
best just eat as much as you can till you're sick of it and then not eat any more till next year...........when it's in season....think of it as the asparagus of the late summertime
we get sick of it and end up giving it to the goats and chickens to eat.
we keep the sprouts and late carrots for the winter
|
wellington womble
|
It's pretty fab bbq'd. I've read that you should soak the whole cob (husks and all) in water for a few mins first, but they were selling it at the big green gathering just grilled over charcoal naked (as it were) and it was marvellous. Beats a plastic chicken burger any day.
|
sean
|
Works best if you soak it for about an hour, husk and all, then grill it.
|
tahir
|
BBQd sweetcorn is almost heaven
Removing the kernels from the cobs is fairly easy I've done it loads just can't think how to explain it.
|
Nanny
|
sweet cornone of our favourite summer meals was
fresh baked ham
fresh slices of beefsteak tomatoe
slices of boiled beetroot
corn on the cob
eaten outside in the bck yard on a big old redwood picnic table
can't beat it
|
