[vineweevil1]

I think either they are overdone before you picked them or cooked to long or a combo of both.   With my first batch I harvested them after waiting and waiting expecting them to be the yellow colour from the shops and I then blanched them for 6 mins.  Some of the kernels turned orange and were rock hard and others were OK but starchy. Chucked the whole lot in the end

With the second lot I picked them a little earlier and only cooked for 3-4 mins and they were mostly scrummy.

[SpudtheBinx]

Ours were quite pale when we harvested them, dropped them in boiling water for no longer than 5 minutes and they came out perfect. If they are hard then it could be leaving them on the plant too long.

[Nogger]

excuse my ignerence but what is this fodder stuff ? new to me,i will try what you said Srebmob bang them on the barbi cheer's

[Big Jen]

I cook mine in the microwave.
Leave the jackets on and cook on full power for 3 mins if its a biggish one.
Must have read it on here to cook them like that - really lovely

BJ

[richyrich7]

excuse my ignerence but what is this fodder stuff ? new to me,i will try what you said Srebmob bang them on the barbi cheer's

There's a variety they grow for animal feed, I only found this out after we had been to the  Wistow Maize

[Angelah]

I'm with BigJen - read somewhere, pos on here, to leave leaves on and nuke them for 3 min - absolutely gorgeous. Had some last night that I'd frozen a couple of weeks ago, again still with leaves intact, took about 8 min. Hubby was bowled over by how good they were!!!

Last year though was a different matter, and we ended up chucking ours too, they were like rock whether I cooked them for a couple of minutes or half an hour. Last years were sposed to have been mini ones, so maybe not picked at the correct time. I have no idea what this years ones are, they were bought as small plants from the local gardeners sale - they are smaller plants than my mini ones from last year, but full size cobs - whatever they are, am definitely going to be planting more sweetcorn next year.

[compostqueen]

Had my first sweetcorn today, microwaved for 3 minutes as it was quite big.  Lovely  

[Robin Redbreast]

the way to tell according to my mums methods is to poke a skewer into the middle at the end of the cob if it doesnt go in easily it isnt cooked try that to see if it works has always been right for me!

[green fingers]

Got my grandson interested earlier in the year and he proudly planted 6 sweetcorn.(a bit late and they were not as tall as others on the plot.  Every time I have seen him he was keen to go to the plot and see if they were ready.  As I have never grown them before was a bit apprenhensive - but kept checking on here and made the brave decision to pick them a week ago and also zapped inthe microwave for 3 minutes.  They were delicious (I am told) didnt even get a chance to eat one as too many excited little mouths waiting for them. So will certainly be growing more next year