Butter Your Corn and Your Bread, Too

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June 19, 2012

With in a signature why-didn't-I-think-of-that move, America's Test Kitchen has done it again. If you've ever struggled to apply softened butter to your just-cooked ears of corn without making a mess, this tip is for you. It's stunningly simple: heavily butter a soft slice of bread and use it as a rag of sorts to evenly coat the ear.

Even better? Eating that butter-soaked, corn-slicked slice of bread afterward.

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Quick Tip: Buttering Corn with Bread from America's Test Kitchen

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francesk June 19, 2012
My family has been buttering corn this way as long as I can remember. In the summer, my mother would collect the ends of loaves of bread and store them all together in a plastic bag in the freezer to be used just for this very purpose.