Dinner ideas
5 dinners for peak summer corn
Peak corn does not need an elaborate recipe. Char it for a salad, fold it into pasta, stir it through rice, pile it into tacos or make a quick chowder.
sweetcorn
5 pages tagged sweetcorn.
Buying guides
How to choose sweetcorn with juicy kernels
Good sweetcorn feels full, has a green husk and fresh silk, and shows no dry stem or empty tip. Buy the ear that feels juicy, not the one with the loudest colour.
Dinner ideas
How to keep corn sweet until dinner
Sweetcorn keeps its best flavour when it gets cold quickly. Leave the husk on, refrigerate the ears and cook them within a few days instead of storing them on the counter.
Cooking technique
Why sweetcorn loses sweetness after picking
Sweetcorn is sweetest close to harvest because its sugars begin changing into starch once the ear is picked. Cold storage slows the process; it does not reverse it.
Buying guides
Corn on the cob vs frozen sweetcorn: which tastes better?
A freshly picked ear is hard to beat. For supermarket corn that has travelled or waited, frozen sweetcorn often has more sweetness and a cleaner bite.