We'd get several hands to help when it was time to put up corn. We have two of the LEM style corn cutters that we've had as long as I can remember, and I'm in my 60's! We would put up 52 quart bags of corn per family, thinking that would get us through the year. Of course it did and then some. We worked at a pretty good pace and moving that much corn from water pots, on the stove, to the corn cutters often made for a watery mess.
A friend told us of a method that they used and so we gave it a try. We would load the dish washer down with corn that was shucked, with silk removed and run it through a wash cycle. It's quick and you can get a lot of corn in a dish washer. It comes out pretty hot, but not a lot of water dripping everywhere. We'd cut the corn off the cob as fast as we could, bag it, and then cool it down. We've put up a lot of corn this way and it taste great long after the crop is gone.
We'd get several hands to help when it was time to put up corn. We have two of the LEM style corn cutters that we've had as long as I can remember, and I'm in my 60's! We would put up 52 quart bags of corn per family, thinking that would get us through the year. Of course it did and then some. We worked at a pretty good pace and moving that much corn from water pots, on the stove, to the corn cutters often made for a watery mess.
A friend told us of a method that they used and so we gave it a try. We would load the dish washer down with corn that was shucked, with silk removed and run it through a wash cycle. It's quick and you can get a lot of corn in a dish washer. It comes out pretty hot, but not a lot of water dripping everywhere. We'd cut the corn off the cob as fast as we could, bag it, and then cool it down. We've put up a lot of corn this way and it taste great long after the crop is gone.