How To BBQ Corn On The Cob

Hi there, I'm Matt from the Underground Cookery School, and today I'm going to do a video cookery lesson for you. Today I'm going to show you how to barbecue sweet corn. But I'm in a kitchen, so we're obviously going to go outside and finish the job off.

I'm going to show you -- we need a little bit of preparation before we actually barbecue the sweet corn off. There are two ways of doing it. There's my way, and there's the other way.

The other way is, just wrap this in tin foil and stick it on the BBQ. But I think, a quicker and easier way of doing it, is just to take your cob, stick it in boiling water, and just cook that away for about 2 minutes. Now, while that is cooking away, we're going to prepare a little parcel in which to wrap the cob.

I'm going to rub a bit of butter into the tin foil. I'm just going to grease it up nicely, like so. A little bit of butter along here, and what you can also do just to jolly the whole thing up is a little bit of seasoning, a little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper, some chopped garlic, just to really give it some flavor, and I'm just going to put some thyme in here.

You don't have to put any of this in if you don't want. I would put butter in, and a little bit of seasoning. The rest is purely up to you.

I just wanted to get the corn going. Otherwise, the conventional way is to wrap it up in tin foil and stick it on the BBQ. It takes about fifteen minutes to really cook it off.

If you do it this way, it's much quicker. What we can then do is wrap that up in its parcel, like that, and I recommend six or seven minutes, cooking on the BBQ and then we'll take it out of the tin foil. The corn will have all the benefit of those beautiful flavors, and then we can give it a nice charred effect on the barbecue.

So, we made it out to the BBQ. I'm going to put the corn on the cob on the BBQ, and all we're going to do is, intermittently for the next three or four minutes, keep turning it. The corn on the cob has been on the BBQ for probably about ten minutes.

I'm just going to unwrap it from its culinary sarcophogus and we're just going to finish it off. It's beautifully cooked there. I'm just going to finish it off by putting it on the BBQ.

As I said, we just finished that corn on the cob off on the barbecue. We can just add that to the dish. And there you have perfectly barbecued corn on the cob.