u/eduo is getting downvoted because while they may have something to add they've done it poorly.

If the phrase "heats things up" was some strictly defined scientific terminology they could perhaps argue I'd used the term too loosely. But I used loose terminology on purpose the same way I would with comparison between any of the methods that make food hot. Because to me the point is that the food gets hot. You don't have to understand how a microwave works to use it. The same is true of a kettle, an oven or an induction stove top.

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Reading myself I think it also came across as unnecessarily confrontational. Problems of non native language. 😕

So now do whatever you want with it? The police won't stop you from cooking it again I promise

Exactly, if I put some food in the microwave for 8 minutes I wouldn't be surprised if it caught fire... (unless it was a low wattage setting)

Are you not aware of the Miracle Blade??

It's a shawp knife; https://youtu.be/T2N4U7B1Jog?t=262

You got downvoted, but you aren't wrong. People just might not understand your phrasing or how a microwave works. It doesn't cook things the same way an oven, a grill, or a stove does.

As someone that loves corn, I always resisted trying it, but it is so good and easy. Can then pop it in a hot skillet with butter after and toast the kernels. Tons of flavor and ready super fast.

Not sure if his lost fingertip here has anything to do with this said MiracleBlade

I was expecting it to be a disaster, when he said one corn was 4 minutes, and he put 2 corns in for 8, not really how microwaves work, but by golly, he got the results he promised, fantastic

>Also kills the plump juiciness of the corn which is preserved by the steam method.

Absolutely not. It's not like you're charring the whole damn thing (unless you like it burned) it just adds a bit of the grilled flavor, still perfectly crunchy and juicy.

Yeah you get a char-y flavor. It isn't necessarily better. Also kills the plump juiciness of the corn which is preserved by the steam method.

Yes, it mostly comes off due to the moisture released from cooking them in the husk. Recommend soaking them for 30 mins to an hour before grilling so the dry husks don’t catch fire

Does that help with the silk?

Wouldn’t your corn be rubbery from microwaving it?

And don't sleep on the ove-glove. I'm clumsy and used to burn myself all the time.

Here's an idea: Don't fucking wrap it in foil! Slap that MFer right on the grill, get some char on there. You don't need foil on there, all that does is steam it like you said. but if you get some char on it, then you are actually developing some flavor from your heating method.

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Or you could grill them in the husk

But this is not the case for corn on the cob. Flavor is intrinsic heating does nothing for the flavor. You're typically just wrapping it in foil on a grill or oven. It's abundantly clear you've not had microwaved corn on the cob.

Something subtle, like mexican esquites.

Mayo, cheese, chili, hot sauce.

Microwaves don't heat things up. They make the things heat themselves up which depending on what you want to make can yield radically different results.

This is easily provable by basic experimentation. I'm surprised it needs clarifying at this point.

Not really. Microwave is not heating externally and it indeed can have an effect in texture and flavor. Particularly when flavour is not intrinsic but developer by the heating process.

It's actually from the past. Old timers were doing shit right.

You need to heat it up to loosen the cob from the husk. What method you do to heat it up though is up to you.