Corn can be eaten both steamed and boiled.
Normally, ordinary sweet corn and fresh corn, after boiling the pot, 10 to 15 minutes can be cooked, if it is glutinous corn or old corn and sticky corn, black corn, etc., then you need to add another 5 to 10 minutes, you can add a small amount of salt when you cook the corn to enhance the texture and give off the flavor, and soak it before cooking it to reduce the time to cook the corn.
Corn is usually steamed for 15 to 20 minutes across the water can be cooked. Corn is divided into Japonica corn and glutinous corn, glutinous corn relatively speaking steam time can be slightly shorter, it will be very in the end soft glutinous amount, and Japonica corn no matter how long to steam, eat up the texture is relatively hard, so before steaming the first to understand the corn belongs to a type of corn, otherwise often think that it is not steaming, and repeatedly steaming to make the taste of corn deterioration.
Select corn skills:
1, understand the varieties
Currently on the market there are several varieties of corn, a kind of glutinous corn, a kind of Japonica corn taste is more hard, there is also a kind of fruit corn, more crispy, raw when you can eat. So when you are shopping, you should first understand its varieties, and pick different varieties of corn according to your own preferences.
2, look at the appearance
A good corn, first of all, its shape is conical, and secondly, its grains are full, the whole corn cob is not too much missing, and there is no insect spot or moldy phenomenon. So in the selection of the time must be the skin of the corn to peel, the inside of the whiskers removed, to see its integrity, if there is no missing, the grain are very complete, that is a variety of good corn.
3, touch
Fresh corn is very smooth to the touch, there will be no discomfort. But if it is spoiled corn, then touch it will have a sticky feel, because it will be divided into some mucus, or juice oozing out, so by touching it with your hand you can know the good and bad.