What I also found was that the OXO corn stripper tended to remove ALL of the corn from the cob, while a kitchen knife tended to just shear off the tops of each kernel. I love the size – it fits easily in your palm for ease of use. I had no issues with cutting whole kernels because I applied more pressure.ĥ. A cap would be nice, as I somehow dumped corn all over the counter.Ĥ. I also had issues with the blade area clogging occasionally.ģ. I thought it WAS quicker than using a knife.Ģ. Pluses: OXO’s quality is always high & the ergonomics were good.ġ. Cut kernels tended to be more pieces than whole kernels.ĥ. Because one end was open, kernels tended to fall out constantly.Ĥ. The cutting blade tended to clog, which meant you had to stop & clear it.ģ. He wasn’t sure it was any easier or quicker than using a knife.Ģ. The Complete Package’s Review: (Overall Grade = C+)ġ. The key was to start at one end apply the proper amount of pressure. Once they were cooled, The Complete Package grabbed that stripper and put her to work. We started by grilling ears of fresh Texas sweet corn. First up was playing with the corn stripper. That the box arrived just prior to the July 4th weekend was a bonus. This month, it was OXO’s ‘What A Grill Wants’ collection. As a part of this program, I am occasionally selected to try random products. Because OXO supports the blogging community and blogs of all sizes, they created the Blogger Outreach Program. Their products are well made, sturdy, easy to use and affordable. What you will see – products I occasionally share for one reason only – because I love them. It’s not a monetary or political issue, it’s just that I started blogging to share with friends and family, and ads never felt appropriate. It’s a personal choice made when I started blogging four years ago, and one I’ve stuck with since. We got decent results.What’s missing from my website? Please don’t say humor, good writing or appetizing recipes. We had to concentrate to keep the ring perfectly centered around the core of the cob, or else we cut unevenly or too deep, leaving pith on the kernels. We simply placed the end of an ear of corn into the blade and then rotated the corn with one hand and the ring with another to cut off the kernels. The blades themselves were all sharp and cut easily, but the results were uneven it was hard to gauge just how deeply to dig in with the blade, so some kernels were sliced off with the hard pith attached, and others were left half on the cob, requiring an extra pass to slice off the rest.Īnother model, consisting of a circular blade enclosed by a ring of plastic, showed more promise. In theory, they made sense: Run the blade down the side of the cob and off come the kernels. Four of the strippers resembled vegetable peelers with curved blades. The rest of the strippers were safer to use, and most did in fact remove corn kernels from the cob. We gave up trying to use this device after three attempts. Pushing hard wasn’t a good idea: With no guard with which to hold the corn, there was a distinct risk that our fingers would slide full force into the blade if we did so. Every time an ear of corn hit the blade, it stopped short and refused to go further unless we pushed very hard. This corn mandoline was also the only gadget that truly made us fear for our fingers. Built like a long, narrow wooden mandoline, it mashed the corn instead of slicing it off, no matter what we did to adjust the positions of the blade and corn. Technically speaking, almost all the gadgets were capable of cutting corn off the cob. So we bought seven models, priced from about $7.50 to about $24.00, and used them to shear off kernels from ear upon ear of both cooked and raw corn. Since we last tested corn strippers, our former favorite was discontinued, so it seemed like a good time to take a new look at these gadgets. These specialized gadgets promise to make the whole process of cutting both raw and cooked corn off the cob easier, safer, and more foolproof than using a knife. It can also be slightly dangerous-many of us worry about our knives slipping as they slice through the juicy corn. And it’s prone to error: Cut too deep and get some of the hard, fibrous material that connects the kernels to the cob, or cut too shallow and lose out on some of that sweet, sweet corn. The process is often messy, scattering kernels everywhere but the bowl or cutting board you’ve placed under the corn.
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