I’m not your neighbor, but you might want to give them a heads-up before you start grilling so they can close their windows *before* there’s smoke throughout the house.

Absolutely not to the shoe one. Fuck that. Also pouring other peoples’ drinks seems like a bad idea in the age of roofies. Ladies, do not let your drink out of your sight.

I’m sorry. THREE hours? On high? Corn? FRESH corn? WHY!?

Remember the great “That’s Bullshit!” Penn and Teller episode where they fill a bunch of water bottles from a hose out back and then bring them out as speciality bottles—they put a tarantula in one (“the hairs of the spider filter the water naturally”) and label the others from exotic places “Blue ice extracted from…

I used to do that, but I found out the reasons why they soak it are to slow converting sugars to starch (lack if fridges at fairs mean they need to find a way to slow down nature), mitigate the risk of really hot fires, and have a product similar to steamed corn. If you skip the soak (you can wash) and throw it on a…

You never had juicy corn? The slow cooker creates and adds to moisture and gently steams. I grow my own and it is hella juicy, lots of moisture in the ears, even uncooked. I use her method and it works great for me and my mob. A couple of hours, that’s it. Tastes wonderful, plus one less thing to deal with when the…

And, if you’re really picky (or live somewhere the water is trying to kill you - e.g., Flint, MI), run it through a filter. A Brita pitcher (or other comparable brand) will cost a lot less and do a lot less environmental damage than buying bottled water.

In my experience there’s no need to soak it. You better flavor and color when you don’t, the green husks will provide plenty of moisture to help things cook evenly. And soaking has never really reduced the charring and ash during grilling or roasting for me.

Even lazier don’t shuck it. The husk will provide better flavor and any additional steaming moisture needed.

And a cooked cob is easier to husk. For some weird reason especially when you nuke it.

Over thinking it with the slow cooker. And WAY over doing it with 3 hours.

Good fresh sweet corn needs a few minutes of steam time at best, and it’s easy to way over cook in a slow cooker. Hours in the not quite luke warm does weird shit to food. My pretty big slow cooker wouldn’t fit much corn when we tried this…

Three hours is not “just like that”. I cut off the base end, microwave it and then shuck it.  It looks in its own moisture in a about a minute,  Roll it in butter and eat.  You’ll be finished while the slow cooker is still warming up.

Even easier:

That’s just for restaurants, silly. This is for people. Totally different thing!

Personally I just like wrapping my corn in a damp paper towel and microwaving, or just eating it as-is. Both delicious, both minimal muss and fuss.

We called it cow corn, since we raised cows on it. I can't tell you how many rednecks that'd pull up and jump the fence and steal some only to immediately regret that decision when they bit in. Similar thing with the apple orchard .. you think we keep the good tasting apples at the side of the road? Come on bro

It seems too long to me, but it can’t be as bad as the corn a family friend’s grandmother used to make. She would boil the hell out of it, and for a long time, I thought she was buying field corn or as we used to call it, “Horse Corn”, due to the total lack of sweetness, and a very odd aftertaste. I said something to…

Yes! My mom taught me to steam corn this way, and I do it pretty frequently in the summer. Let me know if you have any trouble.

I had one.  It was ok, but I don’t plan on getting another one any time soon.

Cool. Yeah, I think time has shown that Fieri, for all his in-your-face, white-trash persona, is actually a pretty saavy, reasonable, altruistic guy, so think people are starting to come around to him. (In fact, I wonder if this profile is something of an apology for the NYT’s legendarily brutal review of his Times…

I read somewhere  - maybe Reddit or Twitter, idr anymore - that they hadn’t expected to sell as many units of Mexican Pizza as they had in the first week - like they only expected to sell around 20 million within the year? But like hi, Taco Bell, we’re living in the age of TikTok/IG/social media clout. Do you really…