Damien: Congratulations on your first corn crop ... Very cool! I don't grow any vegetables; I don't have the space, but I've always dreamed of a veggie garden with a few rows of corn included!
Tip for your wife: I use a long handled dish/scrub type brush (kept in a kitchen drawer in a zipper bag to be used only for scrubbing veggies!) Shuck the leaves from the corn ears and using the brush, gently brush the silks off and rinse well. Depending on how lazy I am it usually removes pretty much all of the silk, then the brush goes in the dishwasher to keep bacteria from growing on it; when dry I put it back in the zipper bag and into the drawer.
p.s. I have to label the bag "FOR VEGGIES ONLY" so that my husband doesn't use the brush for other purposes like scrubbing his aquarium equipment!
