I didn’t need to dig out a bundt pan or worry about my large chef’s knife slipping. I videoed my first attempt with the OXO Corn Prep Peeler and clocked in at 1 minute and 21 seconds to remove the kernels from five cobs! Better yet, I remained unscathed and with all ten fingers. You can have fresh corn kernels off the cob, in the pan, and on your plate in under 10 minutes. ![]() So much so that I’ve made OXO’s recipe for Esquites several times over the last few days. I was invited to try the new OXO Corn Prep Peeler and I’m in love. Think of Esquites as a warm Mexican Street Corn salad that gives you all of the Mexican Street Corn flavors you want without the mess.įrankly, after trying every method to get corn kernels quickly and easily the cob- my teeth have remained the safest way for me. I usually order Esquites when I’m out to avoid the messiness, Esquites is Mexican Street Corn off of the cob. We got decent results.Mexican Street Corn is all the rage these days and I love it. ![]() We had to concentrate to keep the ring perfectly centered around the core of the cob, or else we cut unevenly or too deep, leaving pith on the kernels. We simply placed the end of an ear of corn into the blade and then rotated the corn with one hand and the ring with another to cut off the kernels. The blades themselves were all sharp and cut easily, but the results were uneven it was hard to gauge just how deeply to dig in with the blade, so some kernels were sliced off with the hard pith attached, and others were left half on the cob, requiring an extra pass to slice off the rest.Īnother model, consisting of a circular blade enclosed by a ring of plastic, showed more promise. In theory, they made sense: Run the blade down the side of the cob and off come the kernels. Four of the strippers resembled vegetable peelers with curved blades. The rest of the strippers were safer to use, and most did in fact remove corn kernels from the cob. We gave up trying to use this device after three attempts. Pushing hard wasn’t a good idea: With no guard with which to hold the corn, there was a distinct risk that our fingers would slide full force into the blade if we did so. Every time an ear of corn hit the blade, it stopped short and refused to go further unless we pushed very hard. This corn mandoline was also the only gadget that truly made us fear for our fingers. Built like a long, narrow wooden mandoline, it mashed the corn instead of slicing it off, no matter what we did to adjust the positions of the blade and corn. Technically speaking, almost all the gadgets were capable of cutting corn off the cob. So we bought seven models, priced from about $7.50 to about $24.00, and used them to shear off kernels from ear upon ear of both cooked and raw corn. Since we last tested corn strippers, our former favorite was discontinued, so it seemed like a good time to take a new look at these gadgets. These specialized gadgets promise to make the whole process of cutting both raw and cooked corn off the cob easier, safer, and more foolproof than using a knife. ![]() It can also be slightly dangerous-many of us worry about our knives slipping as they slice through the juicy corn. And it’s prone to error: Cut too deep and get some of the hard, fibrous material that connects the kernels to the cob, or cut too shallow and lose out on some of that sweet, sweet corn. The process is often messy, scattering kernels everywhere but the bowl or cutting board you’ve placed under the corn.
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