Do you roll your corn on the cob directly onto the stick of butter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I cut a pat of butter, put it on a tablespoon and rub it around the corn. The bowl of the spoon holds the butter and you can get it all over without ruining a whole stick of butter.

This is what I do (if the corn even needs butter, often it’s good enough that it doesn’t.) My husband rolls it in the butter stick.

[Anonymous]

I would neither eat corn on the cob as a guest nor serve corn on the cob to guests. There are too many issues: if buttered, it can be messy, it’s very unappetizing to see other people eat it, kernels get caught in your teeth. It’s an item best eaten in the privacy of your own home. If I had to eat it as a guest, I’d cut the corn off the cob before eating it, so there’d be no butter rolling.

In our own household, we peel the end of a stick of butter, but otherwise leave it in the wrapper, and just rub it on a hot ear of corn. At the end of dinner, we can cut off the tip that touched corn and use the rest of the stick in baking or cooking.

[Anonymous]

I don’t do this ever. I always get a pad of butter and use a knife to apply it.

[Anonymous]

Good fresh corn doesn’t need any butter!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Growing up we had this amazing little device that you put like a 2 tablespoon chunk of butter in and it had a curve for the corn. Think like a garlic press but for buttering corn. Amazon sells this which is the same idea. Fox Run Butter Spreader with Built-In Cover, Plastic https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I1Y2PK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_EQ54Y379KTVYWB42ARYD

We have one of these devices. The one we have looks like the one in the link and is designed for a West Coast stick of butter which is shorter and fatter than an east coast stick. But we make it work.

[Anonymous]

I cut a lemon in half, dunk the inside juicy part in a small saucer of chaat masala and salt, then I rub it al over the roasted corn on the cob.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, does the answer depend on if you are at home or a guest at someone else’s house?

Why are you asking?

[Anonymous]

gross no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would neither eat corn on the cob as a guest nor serve corn on the cob to guests. There are too many issues: if buttered, it can be messy, it’s very unappetizing to see other people eat it, kernels get caught in your teeth. It’s an item best eaten in the privacy of your own home. If I had to eat it as a guest, I’d cut the corn off the cob before eating it, so there’d be no butter rolling.

In our own household, we peel the end of a stick of butter, but otherwise leave it in the wrapper, and just rub it on a hot ear of corn. At the end of dinner, we can cut off the tip that touched corn and use the rest of the stick in baking or cooking.

I refuse to eat corn on the cob in public. I frankly don't even like it in the privacy of my own home. I cut off the kernels.

[Anonymous]

I have never seen or heard of anyone doing this. I have attended many bbqs at other people’s houses, I assume that people don’t do this around guests! I’m an anomaly because I don’t like my corn buttered, so we do olive oil at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:gross no

+1!

[Anonymous]

No, never. As a kid we used bread heels to put a pat of butter on then rub over the corn. As an adult I learned to love corn without butter or salt. A good piece of corn needs no adornment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, never. As a kid we used bread heels to put a pat of butter on then rub over the corn. As an adult I learned to love corn without butter or salt. A good piece of corn needs no adornment.

Did your parents not have utensils?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I cut a pat of butter, put it on a tablespoon and rub it around the corn. The bowl of the spoon holds the butter and you can get it all over without ruining a whole stick of butter.

This is what we do (with a fork).

I'd maybe use a stick if there was a huge amount of corn being served, like 20 ears. Otherwise it seems wasteful. Though I'm sure I'm wasteful in other ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, never. As a kid we used bread heels to put a pat of butter on then rub over the corn. As an adult I learned to love corn without butter or salt. A good piece of corn needs no adornment.

Did your parents not have utensils?

using the bread heel is neater and more thrifty when you’re serving corn to a bunch of kids.