Foolproof Boiled Corn

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1995, America's Test Kitchen TV

SERVES4 to 6

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To produce perfectly crisp, juicy corn every time, we figured out that the ideal doneness range is 150 to 170 degrees—when the starches have gelatinized but a minimum amount of the pectin (the glue that holds the cell walls together) has di...

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