How to blanch your sweet corn from your garden

The first thing we do is pick all the corn in the garden. We like to shuck them outside to eliminate the mess in the house later. After all that, you will want to start some boiling water on the stove. I like to do at least 2 pots boiling at the same time to make it faster. You may want to cut your corn off at the tops if there isn't much kernels on them. Once the water is boiling you can start adding your corn. Depending on the size of your pot, put a few ears of corn in. Try not to put too many as this will make the water stop boiling. Put the lid on, set your timer to 7 minutes and then get some ice cold water ready.




After the 7 minutes put the corn in ice cold water for a few minutes to stop the cooking.




Then you are ready to start cutting the corn off the cob. I use an electric knife to do this. This will make it faster and easier. I also get a big bowl and a smaller bowl. I put the smaller bowl upside down in the bigger bowl. This way the corn falls into the big bowl and eliminates a major mess. I am all about easy clean up and less mess. After your bowl has filled up enough you can put the corn into freezer safe Ziploc bags and label with the date and what is in them.





Another option for freezing is to spread all out on a baking sheet and put in freezer for a few hours until frozen, then put them into Ziploc bags. This will allow the corn in the bag to be loose and broken apart. They will not all stick together. So if you prefer to make bigger bags and then scoop some out here and there this would be the way you would want to do it; otherwise they come out in one big clump.




And this is how Mr. and Mrs. CountryLife blanch our corn.