You can blanch the bacon to start the cooking process. That will help it crisp up and not worry about having to overcook the corn to get the bacon done.
This works great on bacon wrapped meats as well since you don't want to overcook the meat, especially shrimp.
Man, even as much as I LOVE bacon, I am a corn on the cob purist/snob. I love it with butter and salt only. I will stick to wrapping cream cheese stuffed Jalapenos with bacon and leave the corn to the basics.
For those of you grilling these...an unshucked ear of corn will cook perfectly in a microwave in 4 minutes. 2 minutes should precook your corn to a "medium" doneness, then you can wrap in bacon and grill, placing more focus on your bacon than the corn.
My sister is coming down from Nebraska for a week, I'm supposed to cook burgers for them one night, going to HAVE to have bacon wrapped corn to go along with it now!
And sorry, bacon wrapped prunes just goes to show bacon makes EVERYTHING better! lol
corn-on-cob end all...
40 yrs back we were growing corn at the irrigation place...
we'd camp to change the water rows...
Daddy had a 16-20in tall piece of 16in well casing...
an old BBQ grill and another piece of casing about 8-12 in tall
he'd pile in a bunch of wrist-size mesquite, light it.. put fresh corn shux and all on the grill so there was a stack over the coals
grill, corn and an old disc to cover...
15min max...
we'd grab those hot ears, suck, butter, salt...
like a bunch of *****, we'd eat roasted corn til we schist kernals...
I still have those pieces of casing ..
and next year I will still do a roasting ear eat-down...
now this was shuck-on plain corn...
BACON WRAPPED? may have to re-think...
we never even thunk of that....
Momma wouldn't a gone for it anyway...
Ima fraid there may be a divergence...:rotfl:
When I make bacon wrapped corn, I pull the shucks down but not off the cob. Remove the silk and wrap with thick sliced peppered bacon. Pull the shucks back up and wrap in tin foil. When you have about 15 minutes left on what ever you're cooking, place the corn on top of the coals. Don't need to bury ears in the coals. After 7 or 8 minutes turn the ears over and leave another 7 or 8 minutes. Remove foil. shucks, and throw away the bacon (it won't be done). I don't even put butter on it to eat.
Not to argue WRR, but I used to like my "dates" unwrapped!! LOL
Later
R3F
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