buttering corn on the cob

I had no idea such a thing as a “corn cob butterer” even existed! (The corn stabbers I’ve seen, but never used or saw the point of.)

I’ve seen the bread method growing up, but we always just used a knife with butter method. For a short while, when I was a kid, there was squeeze butter (it’s still available) that we tried. But we went back to regular butter.

When I was a kid we had the skewers for the ends of the cob and a little matching brush to apply melted butter to the cobs.

I’m not seeing a downside to melted butter dripping off the cob. Just roll your cob around in the melted butter on your plate.

Don’t the corn stabbers have two points on them?

dnr :smiley:

The corn stabbers allow you to blister the roof of your mouth without blistering your fingers. Duh.

Hm. Put butter on room temp bread and try to make it melt on my food while I have hands full of bread and cob?

Then you either waste the butter left on the bread or eat it?

My Wife (and now me) just spin it atop the stick of butter that’s in the butter dish. A new 1/4 stick of butter works best.

It seemed kinda odd to me at first, but it works pretty well.

we almost always use the corn stabbers. typically also it was mom buttering the bread and the corn and it was done as shs was passing it out (doesn’t have to work that way though, multiple people can pick up the bread that’s parked right next to the corn), complete and even coverage, works great, the bread doesn’t tear, there’s no wasted butter. I’ve never seen anyone eat the bread afterwards.

it’s bread and butter. I can’t think of why not to at least try it.

everyone that I’m aware of that didn’t do it this way when shown were like, what are you doing? then wow, that works great! and became converts afterwards.

put some butter on the bread, lay the bread on your hand, lay the presumably hot corn on the cob in the bread, allow your hand to cup slightly contouring to the corn, twist the corn around.

there’s no “making it melt” if your corn is hot. and you’ll just have to trust me that it saves butter. but it is just butter, and it is just bread. I would say the ease of doing it and the complete coverage would be the primary reason to do this.

I have the ultimate in corn on the cob pampering: a butter dispenser. It’s a plastic box about 3 inches long, the width of a stick of butter. At one end is a movable cap, and at the other is a curved side to match up with the curve of the cob. You press on the cap to advance the stick, and slide it along the rows of corn. Here’s a pic.

because butter that’s placed on top tends to just run off and over a small area of the corn versus it being semi forced between every kernel on the cob. sure, some will run off, but it’s more completely covered from the start.

all I can say is it cost next to nothing in time and materials to try, and you may find, as many have, that it becomes your go to method when the need to butter your corn arises.
*hahahaa. butter your corn just became my new euphemism for masturbation

“butter your cob” works as well.
ETA: OMG

Not if you use the keys from canned hams. That’s what we did when I was a kid!

This thread is cruel. It’s nowhere near corn season.

SW Ohio, piece of bread per person, with corn stabbers.

When the corn first got ripe, dinner was just corn, butter, salt and bread.

What? No mention of spray-on “I can’t Believe it’s Not Butter”?

I kid, I kid.

When micro waving cobs, I wrap the cob with wads of butter, in plastic wrap.

See post 29.

That’s how we did it growing up. Western South Dakota, for a datapoint.

ETA:. And once around 30 years ago, a corn stabber became a finger stabber, and I haven’t used them since.

the blood… the blood…

Nero Wolfe did that.