A few weeks ago, I got a fat package from the lovely people at OXO. (And when I say lovely, I mean killer, fantastic, and all around sensational.) I don’t remember the day or time, what I was wearing…had I even showered yet? Don’t know. Don’t care. I just remember the box had an OXO sticker on it, which immediately triggered a squeal so loud that dogs could hear me from the next county over.
The box included a large amount of products to try out and review. Somebody pinch me.
There, right at the top, was this tool – a Corn Peeler. Since corn is at it’s peak right now, and our weekly trip to the Farmer’s Market includes a batch, I got right to it.
If you’re grilling corn to simply eat it right off the cob (dental floss stand by), clearly there’s no use for this. But, if you’re grilling corn because you want those pretty kernels in a bowl, or need them for a recipe, then this handy dandy tool is, well, handy. And dandy.
It felt sturdy, comfortable in my hand with it’s non-slip grip, and cut the kernels with ease. Also, they designed it so that the blade is positioned at the perfect angle, making sure you can’t cut to shallow or too deep. I like that it’s dishwasher safe, and an added bonus is the clear plastic cover that protects the blade.
Sure, you can just use a knife…and run the risk of cutting yourself. And having uneven kernels. Where’s the fun in that?
The Giveaway
Two lucky readers have a chance to win one. And there are two ways to enter: (1) leave a comment on this blog or (2) become a fan on Facebook by clicking the “like” button, then leave a comment on The Wall, so I know that you did.
The drawing closes on Friday, September 3rd at 8pm PST.
To get you in the mood, try this grilled corn with Feta and Lime. Oh me, oh my.
Grilled Corn with Feta and Lime
Serves 4
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 20-25 minutes
Ingredients
• 4 ears of corn, in husks
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
• Juice from one lime
• 1?4 teaspoon chili powder (or to taste)
• 2 ounces feta cheese
• kosher salt to taste
Directions
Heat the grill to high (about 500 degrees.) Soak corn in cool water for 10 minute, turning occasionally.
In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, lime juice, and chili powder; set aside.
Peel back the husks of the corn without removing them completely. Remove as much of the silks as you can. Brush the mayo mixture onto the corn and return husks to as close to their original place as possible. Wrap each husk in heavy duty aluminum foil.
Place on grill, cover and cook, turning often for about 20 minutes. Remove to a serving plate and sprinkle the feta cheese over each cob. Season with coarse salt and serve with lime wedges on the side.
Print this recipe (cooking method adapted, ingredients unchanged, from Sippity Sup!)
UPDATE 9/3/10:
Random.org came up with Kelly Furlong-Rezac (FaceBook) and Tanya (blog.) Throw away that dental floss, ladies – you are the lucky winners of this great tool.
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Yum! This is getting made at the BBQ tomorrow :)
What an awesome tool…will make it much easier to include fresh, sweet corn in dishes…always a great variation to just eatin’ it right of the cob!
Well that looks a heck of alot safer than me with a knife. :)
Being from the Cornhusker state, I would love to try this on all the great sweet corn around here!!
I love the OXO tools I have! Wish I had more. The individual tools do exactly what they’re designed for. Great company!
I’m one of your facebook fans! (Annmarie Dipasqua Weeks)
What a fabulous device! Very useful…especially for folks who have braces and can’t eat corn off the cob!
I have been looking for the OXO corn peeler to no success, and it looks like a great tool! If I had it I would love to try the grilled corn with lime and feta, and also have fresh kernal corn peeled from the cob!
I’d love to have that awesome Oxo cornpeeler in my kitchen!!!
Donot fear, Oxo is here…..to get all ur jobs done right…easily!!!!!
I just found your blog and I love it!
I’m also having a feta and corn craving right now.
This great. This tool will make cutting corn so much easier and safer. I always hate trying to saw off kernels while balancing a corn of cob on a plate. It’d get so frustrating that I’d just open a can. Now that there’s this tool, I’ll have reason to donate my canned corn to charity. Gotta get me one of these! ^.^
Talk about great- love this
Yet another great Oxo product – love their stuff and I would love to add this tool to my collection. :)
OMG!! This looks awesome, I must have one !! I just love OXO, it is the best stuff!! I peel corn all the time for the grandbabies, I gotta have this. Way to cool !!!!
I love OXO and this tool looks like another ‘must have’. I’d love to win!!!
Corn, yummy… Like it any way and every way.
Only think I like more than corn is OXO.
Being a longtime Cornhusker from the state of Nebraska, I love the opportunity to grill fresh, local sweetcorn whenever I can. OXO products are awesome. This tool would be a wonderful addition to my other collection of OXO items.
OXO is awesome! I have a wonderful recipe that I’ve been making almost weekly (thank you garden fresh tomatoes & herbs!) for a corn and tomato salad with avocado etc. It’s wonderful but after grilling the corn you have to cut it off the cob, which I might add is a royal pain. I’ve sliced myself a couple of times when the cob slipped. I’ve seen the corn peelers that you push the whole ear of corn through but it misses a lot of the corn and/or cuts too deep. This looks like a keeper!
Love this! Having a 5 year old who doesn’t like burnt fingers from holding hot corn on the cob and 2 soon to be wearing braces teens, this is absolutely awesome! Would love to get my hands on this gem!
Great give away! I love OXO gadgets too! As someone who has arthritis, and LOVES to cook, OXO keeps things in balance for me. This is a great new gadget and I’d love to have one!
I just LOVE all the recipes! I could REALLY use one of these corn peelers too. My mom taught me the ‘knife’ way to cut corn off the cob, but I just about don’t have any knuckles left.
I am a fan and I love your products.
I would be so thrilled to win the corn peeler! Im glad OXO posted your link I think i found a new blog to love!!!!!!!!
Looks like another winner from OXO. Congrats!
Lo – Ha. No, no. I know who my regular readers are. And even if you did come over for the giveaway, I don’t think any less of you! I love free stuff.
Ha! You’re going to think I came over here just so that I could win one of those corn peelers. But, you’d be WRONG! I really came over just to gawk at that gorgeous corn.
WI Corn has been SO GOOD this year… guess that’s one benefit of this torturous heat we’ve been getting. And I have trouble eating corn off of the cob (thanks to some delightful bridgework in my face)… so maybe that corn peeler would be kewl too.
JulieD, Nive, & Andrea – And thank you for participating!
Elisa – That salad sounds fantastic! I love cherry tomatoes and could eat them right off the vine like candy. Paired with corn is awesome.
I JUST made corn/feta/onion/cherry tomato/lime salad last night. I bought a bunch of sweet corn at the farmers market, and of course had to cut it off the cob with my big knife. Corn was flying everywhere. This would have made it so much easier!
I would love this tool! So handy!
Great giveaway, thanks…this peeler would so come in handy many times…love to get it…
What a great tool…thanks for sharing! :)
Andrea – I must admit, I like it both way…shaved and directly off the cob (there’s something about that sound as you bite down and hear the kernels burst.) Great note about the Cooks Illustrated pick – I feel even more validated. It is hard to go wrong with OXO, though. They make such great products. I’m going broke because of them ;-)
Sarah C – You betcha. Good luck!
Ms. Jenny – Haley cannot wait to lose her first tooth…she doesn’t understand all the hardships that come with it! We miss you!
Heather C – That’s because it’s not green! Funny, Haley loves corn, but Trevor hasn’t warmed up to it yet. Something wrong with him ;-)
Jen – Thanks, Jen! Ya, we’re the same – all I really need is a little butter and salt. But I must say, this feta and lime recipe I found was such a wonderful surprise. I’m making it again this week.
Kathleen – Ha! It is near impossible to go wrong with corn, cheese, and a kitchen tool (together or separate.) I share your love.
Feta + corn = yum
Kathleen + corn peeler = happy!
Just went to the farmer’s market this morning…now I know what to do with that corn tonight.
I loves me some corn!!
The corn looks amazing, and I, too, like Dad, can make a meal out of just corn. I love the grain and can’t help myself when it’s in front of me. In fact, I had it for a snack when I got home yesterday. I would LOVE a corn peeler (a gadget I do not own), so throw my name in as well. And, Ame, this is a fabulous picture!
I have to echo Ms. Jenny…since Jordan is hoping for her two front teeth for Christmas, corn must be off the cobb to be eaten right now. Corn is one of the few veggies my kids will eat anyway, so having a corn peeler would be awesome!
Since I have a 8 and 6 year old who are always toothless then this would rock for my corn on rthe cob loven kids! Corn is 19. at Cub and tastes so good because it is Growen in Minnesota!
I could really use this! I love the taste of corn on the cob, but hubby dislikes the dental floss problem =) Thanks!
The feta/lime recipe sounds really good; I’m off to the co-op for some fresh-picked, super-cold cobs. Incidentally, just two or three weeks ago, the weekly e-mail from Cook’s Illustrated/America’s Text Kitchen/Cook’s Country reviewed corn peelers and this one won! Everybody in my family, being related to an actual Swedish bachelor farmer who grows his own sweet corn, just eats it off the cob. I, the recipe collector, want to cut the kernels off! So yeah, SIGN ME UP, please! I have some really great OXO tools. I love them.
Mom – According to Andrea (below), Cook’s Illustrated/America’s Text Kitchen/Cook’s Country reviewed corn peelers and this one won! So that’s a pretty big endorsement as well.
Melissa – I know. It was a fine day. And I’ve only cracked the surface on my new toys to play with. – p.s. I’m making your Corn Chipotle Tomato Salad (with grilled chicken) again next week. Love that recipe.
Natasha – This was the first time I had sprinkled feta on the corn (thanks to Greg at Sippity Sup) and I loved it. Total “aha” moment. Thanks for becoming a fan!
Tanya – Lucky! We only have another 4-6 weeks of sweet corn here in Northern CA. It’s not fair. Thanks for coming over and playing!
Now this looks like a handy lil kitchen gadget. Corn is just coming into season at our Farmer’s Mkt. in North Idaho, so I think I could put it to good use!
I love sprinkling of feta on the corn, yum! I seriously need that OXO corn peeler – my significant others will not eat corn on the cob so I always have to cut the kernels off! Liked your facebook page too!
I’ve been thinking I need the corn peeler the last three times I peeled with a knife, just this last couple of weeks and would actually love to win this.
So jealous you got a package from Oxo.
I’ve seen various corn peelers but never know if they really work so have passed them by. I’ll take your endorsement for this OXO corn peeler, and if not a winner, I’ll buy it myself. Love endorsements I can trust.
Dad – I know YOU would love one of these. I actually thought of you when I was testing it out. So, did you ever used to watch Bill Maher when he did Politically Incorrect? He used to have fits talking about politicians and the corn industry.
Joanne – No hand modeling in my near future, but for the record, I worked in Advertising for many years. I much prefer cooking and eating, thankyouverymuch.
Heather B – yes it is!
Kim – Who knew that a corn peeler could rip the family apart? Oh, and this is totally a toy. An awesome toy. I’m sorry Facebook was being a whore this morning. Looks like you broke through.
Cathy – *raises hand* I totally remember having braces and getting everything, including corn kernels, stuck in my teeth. Right around puberty and boys being important. Thank goodness I had Marcia Brady and her woes over braces to make me feel better.
I’ve been eating corn around the U.S. this summer: Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire, and of course our dear Minnesota. It all varies; you’ve got perfect cobs sometimes, and lesser ones another, but the state don’t matter.
The question of how to peel off corn when you cook extra and then realize you can’t eat all that came up–and voila, here you are with a corn peeler.
Did anyone else here have braces and have to give up corn on the cob for 2 years? I remember thinking that was a terrible hardship when I was 13. So was no one being willing to take me shopping for back to school clothes. Life was so cruel!
I am sorry that your father disowned you, Amy, but I do understand the power of a corn peeler giveaway. OXO makes the best toys, don’t they? I mean tools. They are serious tools. Except that they make me so happy, they sure seem like toys.
So I went to “Like” you and FB seems to be down this morning. :( Bad FB! Ah well. I’ll be back to “Like” you another time.
What an awesome tool!!
I think you should go into advertising. If I were OXO, I would look at that picture up there and hire you instantly.
That being said, I also think you could have a fabulous career as a hand model. Just saying.
Oh corn. I love it right now. I’m going to be so sad when it’s gone. Sigh.
You KNOW that I like to slice away the kernels – and take my chances at such a dangerous undertaking – rather than floss for an hour afterward. Put my name in the drawing. I am not related to you or the sponsors for today. Well, you for today. The sponsors, not at all, but I did give their squeegee a great writeup on Amazon!
I could make a meal out of Grilled Corn with Feta and Lime. I could even make a meal without the lime. Three ears is all it would take, four if there’s a gas station on the way home. And you’re close to the farmer’s market where they sell the really good stuff, i.e., they don’t sell corn to the government to louse up our gas mileage and subsidize… Oh, right, no politics allowed.
To summarize: I love corn and feta. I want a corn peeler. If I don’t win, I want one for Jay’s birthday which is before Thanksgiving or, if necessary, Paul’s. Your photographs are becoming top-notch. Did I mention I want a corn peeler, and I don’t know who you are? And, I will not talk politics which would be uncouth whatever the hell that means.
P.S. Ethan sounds very knowledgeable, extremely honest, and of high character. All people with that name usually are. Some even make fair to midland furniture.
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