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8:12 pm
January 13, 2011
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was not sure where to post this but i thought it was a wonderful idea and wish i had known about it years ago!! cook your corn, put it in your little corn boats/trays. melt butter, add salt and pepper if desired and pour over corn in boat!!!!!!! it is the best way to butter your corn!!
8:30 pm
February 8, 2009
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LOL isn't it great to discover a new trick?!
We've used corn dishes at my house for years. We usually put butter pats in the bottom of the dish and then lay the hot corn in the dish but melting first works too. I also use 'cob nobs' that are put in the cobs before boiling/steaming.
I've also known folks who keep a well buttered slice of bread in one hand and lay the corn on the bread. Close the hand partially, wrapping the bread butter-side around the cob and turn the cob. Then they eat the bread when the remains of the butter have absorbed into the bread 
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8:44 pm
February 22, 2010
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We cut a stick of butter in two (still in the wrapper) then just rub the cut end over the hot corn. The wrapper keeps your fingers from getting on the butter and you don't need a knife. The melted butter works but I found we wasted a lot of butter (I am cheap). Now if I were using cheap margarine …but that won't happen on my fresh corn on the cob!
11:18 am
April 20, 2011
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When we have a crowd we drain the water off. Then put the butter right into the pot we cooked the corn in, add some salt and pepper. Shake the pot well and serve. Like the idea of the butter in the boats, but don't have any boats. I agree, love real butter. Can hardly wait for our first fresh picked corn. Our corn is about a foot high, the garden was late this year.
3:07 pm
May 7, 2011
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We have used the bread and butter trick (it is works really well with small kids) for years. Making my mouth water just thinking about it.
5:03 pm
December 14, 2010
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For a crowd we melt the butter in a pot and use a new bristle paint brush.
9:55 pm
May 11, 2009
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I put blobs of butter in the little corn trays we use, stick the corn holders in the ends of the corn, and spin the corn around in the tray!
9:31 am
November 15, 2010
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We butter a piece of bread and then roll the cob in it.
Just a bye the bye…the Matthew Broderick movie "War Games" is where I learned that trick. And yes, when someone new comes to dinner and we have corn on the cob, I give full credit to the film. 
11:07 am
July 29, 2009
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We use a whole stick of butter, unwrapped, and placed on a plate. Put the little corn stickers in your ear of corn, and roll the whole thing along the stick of butter (amazing how they're almost the same size!). Voila! :D
12:21 pm
August 6, 2010
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Mrs. Fuzz, that is what we did growing up, and the method I use at home. Very efficient, and if you have lots of people at the table, unwrap a couple more sticks.
The leftover butter often has silks and corn embedded–melt it, strain that stuff out, and use the butter for something else, later.
12:34 pm
April 1, 2009
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We like the squeeze stuff on our corn,—— many years ago we were visiting in Richmond and there was to be corn on the cob that evening for dinner, our host's Husband buttered his with the bread and butter method, I though it was the oddest thing, and then also saw it in the "War Games" film. I think in that film they also served the corn raw, I love the taste of just picked sweet corn that is raw–yummy!
2:38 pm
June 7, 2011
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MrsFuzz said:
We use a whole stick of butter, unwrapped, and placed on a plate. Put the little corn stickers in your ear of corn, and roll the whole thing along the stick of butter (amazing how they're almost the same size!). Voila! :D
This is what we did too. When corn was in, it was the primary menu item so the residual stick of butter was just saved for the next night. Often, we ate so much corn that we had to stretch a stick to last a meal!
After I was out on my own and married, we invited neigbhors for dinner. I served corn on the cob and they were horrified by our buttering method. The husband didn't know how to keep his opinions to himself and a lively discussion followed.
7:14 pm
October 5, 2010
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Wow lots of interesting ideas to butter your corn. Growing up we would do the cut a stick into and wipe it over the corn with the paper still on. Sometimes I wrap the corn in tin foil an add butter and herbs or chili powder and cumin and salt and pepper. and wrap it up an throw on grill. Can't wait till corn season is here. YUM !!!!
8:52 am
February 6, 2011
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I must be the weird one. We have a corn buttering thing-a-ma-bob. It is the shape of a hollow stick of butter and you put in about a half of a stick. The other end is shaped like a half moon so it matches your corn. The butter comes out the moon-shaped end as you rub it on your corn.
I even know what this thing looks like and does, and my description is confusing. Hope others aren't as "simple" as me. 
9:34 am
February 22, 2010
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langela, I have one of those thing-a-ma-bobs…It usually stays in the drawer until company comes…really I have two… each different but very similar…one has a handle makes it look a lot like a hammer. I think I got both from a Tupperware party back in the day.
I think it's funny that we all have different ways to butter our corn.Really, I don't care how I butter it so long as it gets slatthered on there some way!
10:20 am
June 7, 2011
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langela said:
I must be the weird one. We have a corn buttering thing-a-ma-bob. It is the shape of a hollow stick of butter and you put in about a half of a stick. The other end is shaped like a half moon so it matches your corn. The butter comes out the moon-shaped end as you rub it on your corn.
I even know what this thing looks like and does, and my description is confusing. Hope others aren't as "simple" as me.
I know exactly what you are talking about!
2:10 pm
June 1, 2011
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Tupperware used to make a party favor corn-butterer, can still find them at yardsales and thrift shops! They're yellow, sorta like a set of small plastic tongs. On one end is an open square in which to place a short piece of stick butter, and the other end is a "pusher" that fits down into that open square to push the butter out. The whole thing is molded to fit the curved shape of a corn cob. The pusher opens, put salt in it and the lid has holes in it so the whole thing acts as a salt shaker. I have several of these in storage!
And I can't believe it's actually selling on eBay for $12!!! I've never paid more than a quarter for mine!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tupperware…..0484913923
2:16 pm
June 1, 2011
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langela & Miss Judy, just read your posts, yep, sounds like Tupperware goodies!
8:09 pm
May 3, 2011
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I must be weird, because I like my corn without all of the butter and salt! Don't get me wrong, I've eaten it buttered plenty of times, but I just love the natural taste of it.
8:49 pm
June 1, 2011
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Me too, yvonnem! That's one of the reasons I plant Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam corns. The newer varieties have exchanged corn flavor for sweetness.
but I still like to add butter & salt on occasion!
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