Cleaning corn for grilling the easy way. (bbq, chickens, steam)

[bustaduke]

You guys are gonna love this little trick to save time cleaning corn.

I love grilled corn but I hate cleaning the silk on fresh core. Yesterday we had about 16 people over and I grilled corn along with bbq pork chops.

With the corn I folded back the green leaves and started to remove the silk. But as always some of the silk would not come off the ears. So I started thinking about what would work in the kitchen that would clean the silk.

I remember how the use a drum with rubber fingers spinning to remove the feathers from ducks, chickens, etc. I looked through my draws for something rubber and found one of those round rubber jaw openers that fits in your hand.

I held it in my hand and ran it across the ear and within two passes all of the silk was gone.

This is so easy that I feel stupid for not thinking of it before.



busta

[SXMGirl]

I use the purple Rubba Scrubba from Fly Lady, but when I was growing up, we just used a wet paper towel and it did the job.

[wanneroo]

Whenever I grill corn I soak it in water all day in the husks, toss it on the grill, and let it steam in the husk. I cook until the husk is near blackened. Perfect corn and we don't freak out over a little bit of silk. We just pull it off and eat. Yum Yum.

[sidrah]

Wet paper towel rubbed up and down works, too. I eat it raw, cut it right off, so I don't wait for the boiling to soften the silk. It usually somes right off.