One ear of corn contains roughly 800 kernels in 16 rows. One hundred bushels of corn can contain upwards of 7,280,000 kernels. What is the difference between corn and grain? Corn can be considered either a grain or a vegetable, Read more…
Voila—cooked corn in the cooler. It will stay perfectly warm for up to 2 hours with the lid on! How do you keep corn on the cob warm in a cooler? Place the hot corn in a clean, insulated cooler. Read more…
The nutritive value of corn cobs obtained in 13 digestion comparisons with four steers each, averaged 51.6 pounds of total digestible nutrients in each 100 pounds of corn cobs. This average figure suggests that cobs for cattle are 64 percent Read more…
Stooking is the process of leaning maize stalks against each into a tee-pee-like structure. This allows sun and air to dry the maize cobs to help make peeling away the husks easier. After stooking for a few days or weeks, Read more…
People may pick ears of field corn when its sugar content has peaked and cook it on the cob or eat it raw. Ears of field corn picked and consumed in this manner are commonly called “roasting ears” due to Read more…
Corn, also known as maize, is a starchy vegetable that comes as kernels on a cob, covered by a husk. Is corn on the cob the same as maize? Corn on the cob is a culinary term for a cooked Read more…
It is a human invention, a plant that does not exist naturally in the wild. It can only survive if planted and protected by humans. Scientists believe people living in central Mexico developed corn at least 7000 years ago. How Read more…
Minted in the Spanish colonies from the mid-1500s through the late 1700s, these coins were cut from a bar (ingot) of silver and then were clipped to the proper weight (1/2, 1, 2, 4 or 8 reales.) How were Spanish Read more…
The Spanish colonial mints at Potosí, Lima, Cartagena, Bogotá and Mexico City (plus a few others) labored day and night to produce the irregularly shaped gold and silver coins commonly referred to as macuquinas (crude hammered coins) or “cobs.” It Read more…
Cobs are not a specific breed of horse, rather they are a type of horse. However, there is the specific breed called the Welsh Cob, which comes in four types. Are cobs a breed of horse? A cob is traditionally Read more…