[Sca-cooks] cutting corn

[A F Murphy]

I basically agree with Adamantius here - except that my experience is
that frozen corn is soggy and tough... Canned corn is a much better
vegetable, IMHO, as long as one fully understands that it is an entirely
different vegetable than fresh corn. But truly fresh corn (as opposed to
the stuff some fool husked and wrapped in plastic to sit around a store
for a few days, which is no longer worthy of the name) is something I
can only get in limited supply in a limited season. I won't see it for
another couple of months. I mostly eat it on the cob, to savor it! Or
cut off and barely cooked with fresh tomatoes and fresh basil... I don't
waste it in anything where something else will be the dominant flavor.

Now, most other vegetables are best frozen. I have no idea why corn is
an exception. The only canned vegetables I use are corn, tomatoes
(again, a worthy vegetable unrelated to fresh) and beets, which are one
of the only vegetables that I think can't be overcooked. However, I
wouldn't put a canned pea on my table for anything!

Anne

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Also sprach Avraham haRofeh:
>
>>  > Adamantius, who uses canned corn fairly frequently as a pantry
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>>>  convenience, but cannot abide frozen
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>>
>> Really, A? It seems to be an accepted fact in gastronomic circles that
>> frozen is the next-best-thing to fresh; if you buy a good quality
>> product, it's been frozen "at the peak of freshness" (I'm not trying to
>> sound like a commercial, honest I'm not). In fact, good frozen corn is
>> supposed to be better than mediocre "fresh" corn, which can be far less
>> than sweet. I *love* corn, but it's way too much sugar and starch for
>> me, so I never eat it anymore; I don't remember the last time I actually
>> made it in the house.
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> For whatever reason, frozen corn has always been, in my own
> experience, dry and tough when off the cob, and watery and tough when
> on the cob. I don't think I've just consistently gotten bad examples,
> say, that were thawed and refrozen or anything. I don't know what
> constitutes a good quality product, since all the frozen corn I've
> ever had in my life was pretty bad, but I suppose I might've just
> bought the wrong stuff.
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> Adamantius
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