It’s getting to be sweet corn season and I want to freeze up a bunch this year. I’m just curious what people find to be the best way. Freeze whole ears or cut it off? My mom always blanched it and then cut it off the cob, so that’s what my thought was. Cut it off, throw in a little butter, and then vacuum seal it so I can just cook it right in the bag.
What other options do I have?
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Your idea plus a bit of heavy whipping cream. I’m going to try the whole ear, then cool, add a pad of butter to each ear then do the vacuum bag deal.
I process 10 dozen each year and basically I follow your mothers method. I blanch 2 minutes, then cut.
Some of it I will cream and then freeze for quick cooking.
I tried freezing it whole, but it was ‘cobby’ and I didn’t repeat the experiment. Not sure how the commerical processors do it, but theirs is cobby to my taste also.
Wonderful good in the middle of january.
x3 I do ten dozen every year get my sweet corn down by Big Lake. Good eating in Jan.
The Lazy Boy option….
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The Lazy Boy option….
yep and you can buy the 10 dozen ears for the price of 3 of those. 
I said Lazy Boy! 
Your mother was/is a very smart lady. Its the way we do it. 
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I process 10 dozen each year and basically I follow your mothers method. I blanch 2 minutes, then cut.
Yes same here but after the blanch, put ears in ice water to quit the cooking process. After cooled, the cut from cob and bag.
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Your mother was/is a very smart lady. Its the way we do it.
Same here, did that as a kid for years. Since my sweat corn isn’t looking so good in my garden, i need to find some! Where is the best/cheapest?
Jami
Post from last year 
Just had some of my stuff at noon today…YUMMY !!! Freezing Sweet Corn
big G 
Time to shell out for the electric fillet knife, then you can clean my fish for me too…
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Time to shell out for the electric fillet knife, then you can clean my fish for me too…
Funny. If you could catch some, I would maybe clean it for you.
Thanks for the corn advice guys. I would have never thought of using an electric fillet knife. Gives me a reason to buy one.
I thought some might be interested in how we did this in the “Old Days”.
We’d put up several acres in an afternoon. There were 5+ working.
The pickers would pick and dump into a cow water bin on a hay wagon. Pick 5-10 minutes, then into the bin. The bin had 5-10 blocks of ice in 50 gals of water. This was the crew you did your first year on.
Back at the house, the ears were stripped and dropped into kettles of boiling water for 2 minutes. Then tonged out and dropped back into ice water.
The strippers used butcher knives to cut the kernels off the cob. I remember the year that an uncle brought one of the round cob cutters. Grandmother was appalled. It worked. She was won over 6 months later.
Then the kernels were put into 1 qt glass jars and topped up with fresh cream with 1tsp of salt and brought to boil, and capped.
Then the glass jars were set on the back porch to cool.
At the end of the day, the glass jars were divied up between the workers with grandma and grandpa getting 2:1 as they’d grown the corn.
All of this was usually accompanied by a feast in the late afternoon. Usually a beef roast cooked in a dutch oven. When I started bringing ducks, then geese, then salmon, I was quite popular as grandma always burned her roasts…
I usually went home with 4 quarts of creamed corn for 8 hours of work.
I can still taste it as I write this.
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