How to Select and Store Corn
How to Select and Store Corn - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.
Here is how to select and store great fresh corn. First of all, when you are shopping for your corn, in the farmer's market or in the grocrey store, you want to look for tightly closed ears with grassy green husks. You may see a little bit of the silk coming out of the top which is fine but you really want to see them closed. Now the most reliable way to know if you have got the best corn kernels possible under there is of course to open up your corn husks by pulling back a few inches of the husks and exposing the kernels and you want to see firm, plump, fresh looking not wrinkled milky kernels.
What I like to do takes a little more risk but I actually use my fingers to feel the kernels in the closed husk and if I can feel that they are full and round and firm, I am pretty sure that is a good one to pick and take home. To store my corn, I want to get it into a plastic bag and as soon as possible. Put it into the plastic bag and it is going to go into the refrigerator. Now corn loses its sweetness pretty much right after it is picked and you really have about a good twenty-four hours, one to two days maximum to use that corn before it loses its freshness and its sweetness. So if you are not going to use it right away, I do recommend that you cook it or take the kernels off to cook them and freeze them for later use. Enjoy your fresh corn.
Here is how to select and store great fresh corn. First of all, when you are shopping for your corn, in the farmer's market or in the grocrey store, you want to look for tightly closed ears with grassy green husks. You may see a little bit of the silk coming out of the top which is fine but you really want to see them closed. Now the most reliable way to know if you have got the best corn kernels possible under there is of course to open up your corn husks by pulling back a few inches of the husks and exposing the kernels and you want to see firm, plump, fresh looking not wrinkled milky kernels.
What I like to do takes a little more risk but I actually use my fingers to feel the kernels in the closed husk and if I can feel that they are full and round and firm, I am pretty sure that is a good one to pick and take home. To store my corn, I want to get it into a plastic bag and as soon as possible. Put it into the plastic bag and it is going to go into the refrigerator. Now corn loses its sweetness pretty much right after it is picked and you really have about a good twenty-four hours, one to two days maximum to use that corn before it loses its freshness and its sweetness. So if you are not going to use it right away, I do recommend that you cook it or take the kernels off to cook them and freeze them for later use. Enjoy your fresh corn.
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