How to: remove corn silks

We LOVE corn on the cob.  Not only on the cob and slathered with butter, but also grilled in salsas, fresh in salads, turned into cream corn – you get the picture.  And this is the time of year where you can start getting locally grown sweet corn, and if you can, buy it from a roadside stand where the farmer picked it that day – even better! One problem with corn on the cob though is those darn silks.  Especially when you are eating it off the cob, I hate all those silks that get in my teeth.  So I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of time picking every last silk out.  There has to be a better way!

The secret weapon is something you can pick up in a 6 pack at the dollar store – a toothbrush!

After you take the husk off the corn just gently brush with the tooth brush.  This pull up those difficult silks that like to hide between the kernels.

And there you go a nice clean ear of corn.