# How do YOU eat corn-on-the-cob? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082 "2009-09-06T20:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/41 "2009-09-07T12:20:31Z")
I only eat corn on the cob if someone cuts it off and smushes it into a fine paste… [now that’s good eatin](http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=MP3S&type=TV_Shows&movie=Simpsons"e=matlock.txt&file=matlock.mp3)’! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/42 "2009-09-07T13:25:54Z")
Somebody mentioned salting the cooking water: bad idea, as it tends to make the corn tough. Seriously, try the microwave method: it’s one of the few things it’s excellent at. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/43 "2009-09-07T14:39:04Z")
Butter and light salt . . . or _bacon salt._ I go around both ends, then do the remainder typewriter-style, about 3 rows at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/44 "2009-09-07T14:43:40Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > I’m a hunt and peck cob eater. I’ll eat in a seemingly random pattern, then return for clean-up duty. Definitely hunt and peck. Typewriter just seems wrong somehow. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/45 "2009-09-07T15:17:52Z")
So far it looks like three spiralers, three hunt and pecks, four slicers and the rest typewriters. I’m really hungry for corn right now. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/46 "2009-09-07T15:23:04Z")
Typewriter style, rolled in a dish of butter with either pepper, cayenne pepper or a squeeze of lime. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/47 "2009-09-07T16:33:33Z")
Modified typewriter; I am not tidy enough to eat just one row at a time, so I just take bites along a row. In my family, you put a little butter on your plate, then use your knife to butter the corn as you eat it. No salt, although I bet garlic salt would be good. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/48 "2009-09-07T18:59:28Z")
Me - Salt, no butter, spiral. Butter just hides the taste of the corn. Laying a cob in a dish of butter, communal or otherwise, would be \*gauche \*beyond words. Wife - salt, some butter applied with a table knife, and typewriter. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/49 "2009-09-07T19:28:14Z")
I just kind of gnaw on mine like a hound-dog on a pork bone. I guess it is mainly typewriter still but a mixture of everything else too. It all gets finished in the end. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/50 "2009-09-08T00:52:46Z")
Cooked in water with a bit of seasoning salt. I eat mine with butter and pepper, typewriter style. If it’s served at my place or the residence of one of my extended family, there will be corn holders. A couple weeks ago, I was at my sister’s place near Lancaster, PA, which is actually on the grounds of a corn farm. We had corn every night on their patio, ending each meal with an amusing little ritual of hurling the spent cobs into the line of pine trees running across the back of the yard. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/51 "2009-09-08T02:24:44Z")
I like Silver Queen, as fresh as possible, either boiled for 5 minutes or so or grilled in their husks, generously buttered, salted, held with base of the cob in left hand, tip of the cob in the right, and starting at the tip eating it typewriter style 3-5 rows at a time depending on kernel size. LabRat likes his grilled and rubbed with lime. Taking it off the cob makes it no longer corn on the cob, but just corn. To eat corn on the cob, you have to bite it off the cob. I have a [corn cob butterer](https://www.pamperedchef.com/ordering/prod_details.tpc?prodId=233&catId=180) that solves any butter etiquette issues. ---
**Author:** ![Alastair\_Moonsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Alastair\_Moonsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alastair_Moonsong)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082/52 "2009-09-08T02:40:17Z")
1. Get a fresh stick of butter. 2. Place corn lengthwise atop stick of butter. 3. Spin the corn, thereby buttering the whole thing. 4. Salt your corn. 5. Eat your corn. Like a typewriter, from one side to the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-corn-on-the-cob/509082.md?page=2)