For the unitasker fans No Images? Click here Take It All Off! At Serious Eats, we often speak ill of unitaskers, which have a tendency to take up substantial space in your kitchen without making a substantial difference in convenience or the speed it takes to perform basic tasks. But there are, of course, a number of exceptions to that rule, and hey—you never know if you don't try, right? Which brings us to the rather surprising world of corn strippers. Corn strippers, you say? Indeed! Corn strippers! A class of unitasker devoted to one noble purpose: separating kernels of corn from their cobs. It's a straightforward task that we, and generations of other humans, have long accomplished with a knife. But little did we know, this same task could also be accomplished with an instrument of varying shapes and sizes known as a corn stripper. We put a few to the test to see if they held up against our good old knife method. Now put that corn to good use Make the most of sweet summer corn on the cob with this creamy, four-minute pressure cooker corn risotto. All the delights of Mexican street corn (elotes) in salad form, and you don't even have to fire up the grill to make it. The key to great corn flavor in this simple chowder is making a quick stock from the cobs of the fresh corn. The best way to cut corn off the cob Here's how to cut corn off the cob without sending kernels flying all over the place. |