Freezing Corn-on-the-cob

I just had some frozen corn on the cob that was yucky. All mushy and tasteless. What has worked best for me is to cut the corn off the cob, spread it out on a pan, put some saran wrap over it, and freeze it that way. Once frozen, you can put it in a bag and it stays seperated.

I've had bad frozen corn on the cob, too. Do you know how it was prepared? The bad stuff, I mean. If I must, I'll cut it off the cob, but my son is coming home next weekend and he really wants corn on the cob.

Aw. I don't know how this particular bad stuff was prepared. I have just frozen an ear and had the same effect -- mushy, doesn't taste right.

How did you freeze it? Did you blanch it or not?

No blanching.

Maybe try one with blanching, see how that goes? (I bet Cav or JerryR or ehBeth or Osso or someone will know more, though. I'm answering more becuase "Ooh, it's a Swimpy question!" than actually having a clue. )

Oh shoot. I was hoping you were going to say you blanched. Cause in my heart I want to believe I can just put the stuff in the freezer without doing any real work Thanks for your input, Soz. It really was helpful. In all my days of eating sweet corn, I've never tried to freeze any. I doubt that it will taste anywhere close to fresh, but whatever Ian wants, Ian gets

I'm going to wait until late afternoon and if nobody else weighs in, I'm going to try it both ways. I bought enough to feed an army anyway.

Well, I came up with a compromise. I blanched them but only for 3 minutes, not the ten that that Nat'l. Ctr for Food Preservation said. Then I plunged them into icewater. let them dry and put them straight on the freezer racks. When they were mostly frozen I put them in ziplock bags. I am pessimistic about how they will be once cooked. The cooking.com site said to put the frozen ears into boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. I guess that's what I'll do.

I saved about 8 ears and will keep them in the fridge as a back up incase these aren't edible. Course after 5 or 6 days they won't be tasting very good either

Good luck! Let us know what happens.

let's cross our fingers that some mysterious source of later late sweet corn will be found.

There may yet be a source, Beth. The main, main corn growers in these parts picked their last today. There are still a couple of other smaller growers. I need to check with them and see if they have any left.

how's the corn?

Well, it's like this...I saved some of teh corn in the fridge and we ate that on Thursday. Not too bad. I haven't tried the stuff I froze. I think I'll wait until some dreary day in January to test it out.