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I haven't bought the ears in a while, but when I do, I only peel down to where the chewed off kernels stop.
Someone told me long ago if it's sweet, the bugs eat more of it, if it's not, it's abandoned asap for a one that is!
That system seemed to work more times than not through the subsequent decades, or, it was just a matter of the ones with the darker yellow kernels and/or just good batches?
It is not at all unusual to see sweet corn here in Minnesota for $2/dozen. That's certainly on the low end of the scale, but it's regularly out there nonetheless. Normal inflation has more than doubled the average cost of things since 1987, thirty years ago. Since the late 1970s, it's increased prices more than four-fold.
Sweet corn hasn't somehow been magically immune to such economic effects. So if someone remembers finding sweet corn for 13/$1, it is hardly surprising. And there are farms in New Jersey.
I have seen sweet corn at $2 per dozen throughout the Midwest although $3 is more common in season.
However, I have also seen certain varieties at $9-10/ dozen for certain hybrids. Personally, it is not worth it.
Recently I was at Sprouts and saw a worker throwing corn into the trash bin. I asked him about it and he said that every corn ear whose ear tip had been peeled had to be thrown away. I mentioned what a waste that was, and he muttered, "You wouldn't believe how much food gets wasted in this place." I never thought to peel back the layers, but since that incident I will not try it. I usually just feel for plump kernels underneath the leaves.
Sure miss that sweet Jersey shoepeg out here in the west. And beefsteak tomatoes, too.
I remember buying corn from the roadside stands in South Jersey on the way home from a day at the shore. Thirteen for a buck. Darn near made a meal all by itself!
I remember that, too! When I was a little girl, my family vacationed at the New Jersey shore. Mom and dad stopped at farm stands when we were near. The tomatoes and corn were fantastic! They were really good in PA, too, but we were on vacation, so they tasted better in New Jersey that week.
Recently I was at Sprouts and saw a worker throwing corn into the trash bin. I asked him about it and he said that every corn ear whose ear tip had been peeled had to be thrown away. I mentioned what a waste that was, and he muttered, "You wouldn't believe how much food gets wasted in this place." I never thought to peel back the layers, but since that incident I will not try it. I usually just feel for plump kernels underneath the leaves.
I hate to see perfectly good food thrown into the trash.
My son used to do that. I'm not sure where he got the idea that a vegetable with a blemish needed to be thrown in the trash. It wasn't me.
.......But over-ripe? I don't even know what over-ripe would be. What is it?
Picked when it is past the milk stage, or stored too long. The sugars turn to starch and the corn is starchy instead of sweet and the older it is the tougher the kernels are. It's still edible (usually) but it isn't nearly as good.
Picked when it is past the milk stage, or stored too long. The sugars turn to starch and the corn is starchy instead of sweet and the older it is the tougher the kernels are. It's still edible (usually) but it isn't nearly as good.
Yes !
there are three maturity stages for corn ( both sweet and field corn )
milk stage
dough stage
dent stage
anything past milk stage is too mature for good sweet corn on the cob.
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