How to Eat Corn on the Cob?

Answer 1

1. Cook the corn. (Or not; some exceptionally fresh and ripe corn does not need to be cooked at all. However, this is not a wikiHow on how to prepare corn on the cob for eating, but on how to eat it.)
2. Watch out - it is hot! Eat the main dish of your meal first while you wait for the corn to cool down.
3. Place a healthy chuck of butter on a knife and then move the knife in a horizontal pattern across the body of the ear of corn.
4. Start your cob. This is the trickiest part. The key to neat and effficient corn on the cob eating is to use your teeth to pry the kernels whole into your mouth without actually biting into them. (Once they are in your mouth you chew and swallow them normally.) To pry them loose, you will need to have space above or below a row of kernels so that it can be pried loose. Unfortunately, the only easy way to clear the initial space you need (all you need is one row) is to take a normal bite, or, better yet, several bites clear along the cob from one end to another. Then you can pick your teeth clean, because the rest of the process is completely free of any risk of fibers getting stuck between them.
5. Eat the corn. Proceed to use your top or bottom front teeth to pry whole kernels into your mouth, one row at a time, working left to right. If you are using your top teeth, insert them between the row of kernels that is immediately above the cleared space and the row above that. Then with a gentle but firm downward pressure, tumble the kernels home, into your mouth. Work across the row to the end of the ear of corn, then do the next row, and so on. The action is like an old-fashioned typewriter.
6. When you have finished eating your corn, use a toothpick to clean your teeth, and a napkin to get the excess kernels off of your face.

Answer 2

Corn on the cob is a delectable summer time dish that everyone ought to know how to properly enjoy.
Steps

1. Cook the corn. (Or not; some exceptionally fresh and ripe corn does not need to be cooked at all. However, this is not a wikiHow on how to prepare corn on the cob for eating, but on how to eat it.)
2. Watch out - it is hot! Eat the main dish of your meal first while you wait for the corn to cool down.
3. Place a healthy chuck of butter on a knife and then move the knife in a horizontal pattern across the body of the ear of corn.
4. Start your cob. This is the trickiest part. The key to neat and effficient corn on the cob eating is to use your teeth to pry the kernels whole into your mouth without actually biting into them. (Once they are in your mouth you chew and swallow them normally.) To pry them loose, you will need to have space above or below a row of kernels so that it can be pried loose. Unfortunately, the only easy way to clear the initial space you need (all you need is one row) is to take a normal bite, or, better yet, several bites clear along the cob from one end to another. Then you can pick your teeth clean, because the rest of the process is completely free of any risk of fibers getting stuck between them.
5. Eat the corn. Proceed to use your top or bottom front teeth to pry whole kernels into your mouth, one row at a time, working left to right. If you are using your top teeth, insert them between the row of kernels that is immediately above the cleared space and the row above that. Then with a gentle but firm downward pressure, tumble the kernels home, into your mouth. Work across the row to the end of the ear of corn, then do the next row, and so on. The action is like an old-fashioned typewriter.
6. When you have finished eating your corn, use a toothpick to clean your teeth, and a napkin to get the excess kernels off of your face.


Tips

* Add salt to the water when boiling the corn on the cob. This will make the kernals come off more cleanly.
* Attempt to keep your corn on the cob over your dinner plate. This will make the clean-up process much easier.
* To get the full experience of eating corn on the cob, be sure that you do not use any substitutes for butter. Butter is the single most important ingredient in this dish, and margarine or low fat "butter buds" will take away from the overall taste of corn on the cob.
* The "Hunt-and-Peck" approach, also known as, "The Search and Destroy" method, is an acceptable, albeit less common, alternative to the typewriter approach. By this method, the eater identifies the most golden, enticing kernels and consumes those first, whether they be contiguous kernels or not.


Warnings

* Do not eat corn on the cob on a first date because it may give your date a bad first impression of your table manners.

Answer 3

if you are trying to be neat... good luck! actually you can cut the corn off the cob and eat it that way. but that really takes away from the true meaning of corn on the cob. stick the little corn cob holders in each end and smother in butter and dig in.

Answer 4

Firmly grasp one end of cob between thumb and forefinger of left hand; repeat with right. Using teeth, bite into the cob, being careful to shear off the kernels with incisors. Chew. Swallow. Repeat until kernels are gone, or appetite is sated.

Answer 5

I like eating mine with these corn forks. They are two pronged forks that you stick into each end of the cob. In that way you keep your fingers clean. Most grocery stores stock them; though, if you live in a foreign country, your european and, or American stores stock them.