Corn (terminology) question

[ofelles]

As a kid I would ride my bike to movies on Saturday afternoon and eat popcorn.

[CaptainMike]

All I know is that I sure could have used an "ear", "cob", whatever on my island vacation.

[tbob4]

A mixture of starch and amorphous sodium polyborate (SPB) is found to show high flame retardancy

[CaptainMike]

And dropped from a Borate Bomber tbob4!

[klflowers]

CaptainMike, it should be up for a Pulitzer...

[JGo37]

Oh for gawd's sake - an ear of corn is the individual serving you pull off the stalk. They stick out from the stalk like our ears stick out from our head. If you trim or eat the kernels off the ear, you're left with the pipe, also known as the cob.

[Mr. Bones]

Muhzurrah Meerschaum lol!!!

Might jus happen to have me some...

[JGo37]

Mr. Bones I have at least 6, but I'm only a couple feet from Washington...

[zzdocxx]

Native Iowan here ... an ear of corn is the combination of the cob, the kernels, and the husk (outer covering). The ear is the thing that is picked from the stalk of the corn plant. After husking the ear to remove the outer covering and removing the silk from the tip, I'm left with a husked ear of corn, meaning the kernels plus cob.

I can cut or eat the kernels off the cob. When I'm done removing the kernels, I'm left with the cob. Many people will say "corn on the cob" to mean the husked ear of sweet corn. (But this phrase is not normally used to describe a husked ear of field corn.)

Or they will say "cob" as a shorthand name for the husked ear of sweet corn -- "Junior, how many cobs you wanna eat?" But again this only applies to sweet corn, not field corn.

Speaking of which, I embarked on a journey of rediscovery of cooking corn fritters, the way my step-father made them.

Results not too bad so far. Using bisquick, eggs, milk, a little oil, salt. Still tinkering with the recipe, it seemed like he just threw it together. Starts with last night's corn.

Not sure if I've got any pics around here . . .

Yum !

[zzdocxx]

Thanks 58limited

Those look fantastic. I am sparing on the chili peppers due to my mom being 95.

So the Hatch, according to the net, are supposed to be 1/3 as hot as jalapenos ?

Cuz I bought some Hatch salsa at Costco a few years ago and it was a little too hot for me. So I have not bought anything with Hatch since. I did notice big bags of them at Vons the other day.

[klflowers]

I just got a couple of cases of fresh ones from the Hatch Chili Store in NM. I got mild and hot. I would say the mild ones are about a third of a jalapeno heat and the hot are a little hotter than jalapeno. But I am a chili head - I love hot stuff, so I may not be the best judge. If you are not into the heat, I bet this would work just fine with some bell peppers, or some of those sweet ones they sell in bags these days.

[58limited]

zzdocxx You can also substitute poblano peppers. I personally don't think the mild Hatch chilies are hot but I like peppers and eat quite a few. To me, the medium to medium hot Hatches are also on the mild side so I just ordered 10 lbs of extra hot to try. Anaheim peppers are similar to Hatch peppers - same seed stock, different growing locations.

[zzdocxx]

That sounds good, and I've got a couple of poblano in the fridge.

I didn't know Anaheim and Hatch are genetically the same, interesting.

I periodically have to look up poblano vs Anaheim vs Serrano and how hot they are. If memory serves Serrano a a step hotter than jalapeno, Anaheim a half step up from poblano. Did I miss any?

There are some interesting charts showing the different names used for the dried vs fresh chilies of the same type.

[Panhead John]

Scoville scale on rankings of peppers. Serrano hottest of the three. Then Anaheim followed by poblano.

[Mosca]

I always thought "on the cob" was a way of serving it. You could eat corn on the cob, or shucked.

[zzdocxx]

Haha getting off topic here, I find this interesting.

Thing is, these are mislabelled at grocery stores often enough. Eg. I see green ones labelled as pasilla, which look very much like Anaheim. Anyway.

[TripleB]

Here's another "corn" reference Henrik- I was watching the Dodgers on TV and a batter sent a high fly ball to the outfield and the announcer said "high fly ball to center field... a can of corn".