Corn Sweetness Question

[Jim Smith]

Are there different grades of sweet corn? Sometimes it is really sweet other times yuck. Is it price driven? Can you test it before you buy it? Thanks, Jim

 

[rrausch]

Some hybrids are really sweet--too sweet for my taste. With the older varieties, once they are picked they begin to loose their taste & sweetness, as the sugar fades somehow. My rule was to only buy sweet corn at a stand next to the field where it was grown, that way you know it is really fresh. Best is go out and pick it and bring it in and boil it up!

 

[DJW]

When I lived with a family in Penn. the lady of the house would put a saucepan of water on the stove, go to the garden and harvest the corn, come in the house and put the corn in the boiling water, she claimed the sugars, starch or whatever would change soon after harvesting, so having her own corn she found the best way to suit her taste. From plant to boiling water was only a matter of minutes, that was in 1955.

 

[AMink]

When I was in Boy Scouts, we were in the Adirondacks in NY. We stopped at the scoutmaster's friend's house and got to pick our own ears (of corn). They were good right off the stalk! I don't know of anyway to test in the store. :{ Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.



I love this website! You can learn stuff about things you never even think of!

 

[DJW]

Also on the same farm growing Corn for Silage, I found the the field Corn great to eat raw in the field, a Great Nutty taste

 

[Carlsummers]

Also on the same farm growing Corn for Silage, I found the the field Corn great to eat raw in the field, a Great Nutty taste

IMHO, field corn is the absolute best. I wouldn't give a nickle for all the Silver Queen grown in Fl. Here in Fl. , it is getting increasingly difficult to find field corn... they just don't grow it any more. Last year, I tried a yellow and white mixed (ears had both yellow and white kenels), don't know the name, but it tasted real close to field corn... makes nice, thick creamed corn, like grandma used to make. Plan on putting up about 12 bu. this year.

 

[DJW]

Not a Farmer by any means but with this Profit driven society perhaps Profit is the only standard success is measured by today. Of the Field Corn, by the use of the word Field perhaps it referred to as fit for Animals only. For Silage, as we harvested the whole of the plant less roots and it was ground up green and blown into the Silo, cows went wild for it, plus the moisture draining from the base of the Silo. Even the Farm boys I worked with were amused to see me eat the raw Cattle Corn, they wouldn't touch it, thought it fit for cows only, crap humans eat cows. Of today's food take out the Salt, Sugar and Fat what have you left? Much of the population is kept alive by Pills. In general if one is doubtfull of a food supply, offer it to an animal, if the animal refuses to eat it, generally it's unfit for human consumption, however cows will lick paint and die from it, the old paint anyway. Read the label if it has one.

 

[TowPro]

Here the Amish plant several rows a week, once harvest time come's the corn comes in several rows at a time. this way its always "picked that morning" fresh. The first rows already have cobs on them, maybe a week or 2 we should be seeing fresh corn!

Most of it is the mix yellow/white type, I agree, its the best.



Wonder if the 12" of rain we had over the last 6 days will change the taist?

 

[bmoeller]

Some sweet corn that will be packaged commercially, doesn't taste good at all, when picked and cooked straight from the field. Although, some does.



Sometimes when I am waiting for the grain cart to get back to me or for a truck to get back to the feild, I'll climb up to the grain tank of the combine, and snack away. :-laf Regular field corn tastes pretty good. Some of the new hybrids don't taste as good.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Has anybody ever eaten Cow Corn?

 

[bmoeller]

Read my post above. That is what we raise. Some tastes pretty good. Some doesn't though. High oil corn is a little weird.