Corn, what ways have you eaten and prepared it? My neighbor has a field full of

I don't know, but I've dehydrated fresh corn to rehydrate and eat later and it didn't take four days! I used a dehydrator that I got from a garage sale for $5, but I'm sure it would have dried in the back of a car. I've dehydrated things on a cookie sheet on the back deck of the car. It's free and as long as the interior of the car heats up, it will do the job here, but our humidity is far less. It might be worth trying, though, since both the corn and the drying appliance is free. Corn will dry on the stalk, but at such high humidity, it will take a long time, probably until after Christmas. We have lower humidity here and it's into November before they harvest it for feed corn. I've made corn meal out of that, so I know it works. You can make corn meal out of any corn. If I were you, I'd bring some good ears inside before they were fully dry to keep insects and animals away from them. Let them dry naturally, or hang them near a warm, dry source of heat to help them along. If you use a wood stove to heat with, hang them near that. That's what they used to do when they cooked with wood. The corn husks are a real boon if you're into crafts, so if nothing else, save plenty of those to work with. I'd sure be looking for ways to save it somehow. Like you said, corn meal is getting expensive, and so is corn. With such an abundance, it would be a shame to not be able to take advantage of it.

We don't have a dehydrator and if we did, the recipes I've been seeing say 4 days to dry. Our electric oven would also take a long time and lots of money/electricity. OUtdoor drying, they said 4 days of 80 to 90 degree temps in low humidity (we had such high humidity during the 80 to 90 degree days that my clothes didn't even dry on the line) and keep putting it in the fridge over night. Our roofs are very steep. We're talking a huge field of corn and most dehydrators could probaby dry the corn of 2-4 ears. That's a lot of electricity. The oven could dry a lot more, but it would have to since our electric bill would be so high. Won't it just dry on the stalk? 50/50 on the wood sounds good. The corn husks would make good material to start the fire and also, the nicer ones would make corn husk dolls, corn husk masks, corn husk mats, lots of crafts to do with the husks. Corn silk tea is used for medicine up here, I remember hearing that. I'm sure the deer and turkeys will eat plenty of it. The deer and turkeys ate the 10% that the mechanical harvester left last year, that was corn for animals. This is softer stuff. But if it dries, it will be hard again. This person doesn't have a mechanical harvester.

I wish I hadn't already given out the best response. You had lots of ideas. I really wish there was an easy, inexpensive way to do corn meal. I need something easy and not much time consuming because my husband just brought home two entire buckets of apples, we're talking 10 gallon pails each. Plus I really would like to do something with all the corn next door or at least some of it. Corn meal is getting more expensive, but with 60 degree days and 40 degree nights, I don't think we can pull this off outdoors and with the cost of electricity, I don't think we can pull it off indoors. I don't thinkt he deer and turkeys can eat an entire field of corn. With all the people hungry in my areaI wish I could harvest and use for me, my family, and poor people 33% of (deer and turkeys can have the rest). I just don't know. If they had done one acre, it might be doable, but so many acres, they took over a field that was done by machine and didn't think about what if they cant' sell most of it.

Actually my this juicer can make soy bean milk, various of beans congee and other kinds of stuff. It is easy to make the corn juice. At first you need to put some water inside. Then add the corns and then press the button. It will blend them and also cook them. After about 20 minutes, the corn juice will be ready. It is a very healthy drink.

Wow that sounds so interesting! I live in the united states and have never tasted or heard of corn juice. What do you do with the corn juice? Do you actually sit and drink the juice as you would orange juice or apply juice? Do you use it to cook with instead? It doesnt sound like something I would enjoy drinking but I am always up to trying new things.

It's cooked and juiced? That's quite the juicer. That's really cool.

Yes, we normally eat personal amounts with butter, too. The ones in your courtyard sound interesting. What is the name of that kind of corn?

You're so funny. Have you always been unable to have corn?

I started having the migraines in 7th grade, but it wasn't until the year after I graduated college that I discovered the corn allergy... Having said that - its been since 1976 that I have known about it and I probably haven't eaten corn since the early 1980's when my reaction became so severe

It's been a log time.It's been the 90s for me and my not-so-friendly tomatoes.

They ended up cutting it down and making silage out of it so I didn't get a chance to try. From what I understand, you dry the corn, you can machanically or physically grind it to make meal. Coarse grind for meal, fine grind for corn flour. Physically is with two stones or I've seen it pounded with wood against wood, too. If a person does a search and askes for step by step with pictures how to make corn meal, you get some great stuff. Esp. Native American and/or Mexican sites.

Sounds very good, I'll have to try that next summer, take care.