For good corn on the cob, drop it in boiling water. For perfect corn on the cob, drop it in boiling water—and then turn off the heat.
Boiled corn might seem like something you don’t need a recipe for, but fresh-corn season is too short to eat corn that’s anything but perfect. So a few years ago, Cook’s Illustrated test cook Lan Lam cooked hundreds of ears of corn in pursuit of a method that produced crisp, juicy kernels every time.