How To Boil Corn

Hi there! I'm Matt from the underground cookery school. And today I'm going to do a video cookery lesson for you. Well I'm going to show you how to boil corn or cook corn, it's very, very easy.

What I've done is I've taken a wooden skewer, I've cut the corn I two, stuck the skewer in between so that it presents rather more appealingly. But to cook this all you really need to do is get the corn, throw it in a pan of boiling water, just keep it moving, the corn should be completely submerged in that water and it's going to take about 2 minutes to boil. So come back in two minutes and we'll finish this job off.

Now that's been cooking away now or boiling away for probably about 4-5 minutes. I'm just going to take it off the heat, lay it on to some kitchen towel and just roll it around to dry it out. Another nice little tip is if you get the butter and just rub it in, I normally use unsalted butter cause I like to season separately, it just gives you more control it also means that once you've rubbed some butter in you can add whatever flavor you like.

So you can have some paprika, I wouldn't necessarily recommend using chili. If you just come around here, I am just giving my hands a bit of a wipe because I'm just going to do a little vanilla recipe of salt and pepper and just going to add that to it. But yeah, you know, Parmesan cheese, you know anything savory that you're going to grate or grind would work quite nicely.

As far as presenting is concerned with particular demonstration, all I'm going to do is that, haven't done that very well have I, there we go. But what you can also do is, there we go, that's exactly what I was trying to achieve. What you can also do is you can take the corn off; it's the tin corn, that's how they do it.

You know, the common misconception is that you have to cut it off raw and cook it that way but I will always cook on the cob. But if you were to take it off the cob then all you would be doing is going all the way down and then maybe adding those corns to the dish later on. It just depends whatever you want to do.

But anyway, that's my preferred way of doing it, but that is how to boil corn.