Talk:Corn on the cob

message: cook for how long?Andycjp (talk) 09:08, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question; I know a friend from college who would eat vegetables and even soups out of the can, so I was curious if it even needed cooked, though I'm sure it probably wouldn't taste as good raw.I've put it in the microwave in a wet paper towel for 30 seconds, I think a couple minutes209.244.187.155 (talk) 21:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The following contrib was mistakenly posted inside a signed contrib, an accidental act of forgery. (And the contributor clearly intended to comment on the first 'graph rather than the preceding contrib as a whole.)--Jerzy•t 23:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

text:  vegetables and soups out of the can are already cooked...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.189.147.143 (talk) 01:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I love it at 2-3 minutes, but i see cooks recommending as much as 10. Apparently the chemistry implies at least 2 and not much more than 10. But an authoritative source should be IDed.--Jerzy•t 23:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Cooking time) 

message: The first 10 G-hits (of "about 3,550 results") for 
: "corn on the cob" "field corn"
either use the two terms in different passages, or emphasize sweet corn rather than field corn as appropriate for CotC. The first hit that differs from that pattern is #13, "Mexican corn on the cob: Elotes : Mexican Recipe" which says 
: I prefer the blue-green field corn this way, but sweet corn can also be used.
However, at Blue corn, and most sites that are hits for
: "zea mays" "Blue corn"
there is no hint of which of the field-corn types (of 4 acknowledged by Purdue [School of] Agriculture) is intended, and Purdue says both 
# that it is flour corn and 
# that there is insignificant commercial flour-corn production in the U.S. 
The accompanying article has been incoherent from inception until now, being unequivocal in the lead sent that CotC and the article are about sweet corn, yet referring later to CotC w/ field corn.   I have removed that sent for adaptation at Field corn, with an appropriate Dab HatNote, partly in light of the foregoing, and also since clearly the primary sense of CotC concerns sweet corn: Googling
: "corn on the cob" "sweet corn"
gives 18 times the hits, and of the first 10 that are not the accompanying article, all but one clearly juxtapose the two terms in a way that expects the reader to use sweet corn for their CotC. And please note that the lead and title do not imply "Corn cooked and/or served on its cob is never properly called "corn on the cob" if made with flour corn, flint corn, or dent corn" (let alone "Corn on the cob is never made with flour corn, flint corn, nor dent corn"); rather they mean that we have concluded that "CotC" is predominantly used to mean sweet corn cooked and served on its cob.--Jerzy•t 06:30, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roasted field corn 

message: I removed 
: The National FFA Organization (formerly the Future Farmers of America) uses the cross section of the corncob (to represent unity) on the FFA logo.
There may be place (presumably already occupied) for something like that in the org's article, but it is erroneous and in fact offensive to suggest that it is relevant in a CotC article. The FFA is a youth professional organization, not a consumer org for the appreciation of agriculture, and whatever else the ear represents (the cob alone, BTW could not well symbolize unity), its use is appropriate in large part bcz of the enormous role of field corn in American agriculture. There's about 99 times the land and probably labor devoted to field corn as sweet corn, and only a dumb city kid would suggest that graphic is remotely about corn on the cob.--Jerzy•t 06:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Furthermore, if you look carefully at the logo, you'll see that the kernels have a concave top (characteristic of dent corn) and not the convex top of sweet corn. --ABehrens (talk) 21:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  FFA 

message: There are many ways you can cook corn on the cob. My personal favorite is the way Original Corn on the Cob or Mr Corn roasts corn. They use Texas Corn roasters and then you can put different Kernels popcorn seasonings on it like dill pickle, salt and vinegar, oh so Ranch etc/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Originalcornonthecob (talk • contribs) 03:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ways to Eat Corn on the cob 

message: Nor do I know the definition.  Perhaps a corn expert could define this term before it is used (so extensively) throughout this article.  N0w8st8s (talk) 09:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a link to :wikt:ear#earofcorn. -sche (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ear" is nowhere defined in this article 

message: How about adding a section with calories, carbs, etc.?
(PS thats what I was looking for, but did not find in article)
Asaduzaman (talk) 08:30, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nutritional Information 

message: The sentence “
After being picked, the corn's sugar converts into starch: it takes only one day for it to lose up to 25% of its sweetness, so it is ideally cooked on the same day as it is harvested.”
seems incorrect, after fruit is picked sugars tend to break down, not build up. Why would sugars become starch after it no longer has an energy imput.
also the source doesn’t look like it’s good. 97.126.85.208 (talk) 17:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugar converted to starch