How long to cook corn on the cob

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 3:00

Fresh or frozen?

How do you want it?

Sweetcorn is at its best barely cooked. Long boiling turns the sugars starchy.

How to tell without a timer

Drain and butter now.

How it goes

Into water at a rolling boil. No salt — it toughens the kernels.

Every combination, as a table

Fresh or frozen?	How do you want it?	Time
Fresh	Crisp and sweet	3:00
Fresh	Fully tender	4:30
Frozen	Crisp and sweet	3:55
Frozen	Fully tender	5:45

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

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