Showing posts with label corn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corn. Show all posts

Monday, 9 January 2017

Farmland Snow White Corn Review

Another quick fix meal that can also double up as an ingredient! As Alton Brown says, no unitaskers! Heh. I love Alton Brown. :D

*If you're a home cook with even a tinge of science geekiness to you and haven't discovered Alton Brown, go check out his Goodeats series neowwwww!

Farmland Snow White Corn

Atas packaging that promises a sweet sweet deal

If you don't like butter with your corn, you ain't human

Hmmmm not as white as I'd expect...


Taste Review

Taste - 7/10
Tbh I actually expected more out of Farmland's corn. The packaging just shouts SWEET goodness! But in the end the sweetness rating I'd say is about a 7/10. It's not as sweet as another brand of frozen corn which I've had and which has slipped my mind now. A bit disappointing actually. The corn isn't actually bad, it just didn't live up to my hyped up expectations. 

Texture - 7/10
Decent corn texture cos well, it's corn! Corny a not? hur hur hur. Some corns kinda pop in the mouth while most are kinda ok. Good, just not wow.

Cost - 6/10
I got it on offer at NTUC at... I think $2.85 for 400g. Pretty decent price. It can't beat the NTUC housebrand of course but that one... you don't even a smidgen of sweetness. You can find the Fairprice Corn Kernels review here. 

Tasting Notes
Nothing much to add to the above. It's got good taste, texture and sweetness. Its decent, just not super. Like all things white, it promises a lot but delivers ok. (Geddit?! Hur hur hur)
Very handy to have in the kitchen since you can add it to all sorts of dishes like pastas, salads and corn fritters. But if you're looking to make a bowl of steamed corn with butter (Heaven!)... You've to look elsewhere.



TLDR version
Decent corn to keep in your freezer to accompany dishes but not as a main star on its own.

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Fairprice Corn Kernel Review

Housebrands are almost always the cheapest amongst the brands and sometimes they are quite good. NTUC corn just isn't one of them.

Fairprice Corn Kernel

Wayyyy big pack 
Cheap too



Taste Review

Taste - 4/10
Bland and unimaginative. This is frozen corn at its most bearable. No sweetness, just the taste of corn.

Texture - 3/10
"Corn is a vegetable that provides fibre." Each bite just keeps pushing that message home as I munched on fibrous kernel after fibrous kernel. These are corn kernels alright. I could feel each kernel on my tongue as whole and ermmm... unpopped or squished. NTUC corn kernels are tough mofos and I mean tough.

Cost - 10/10
Nothing beats this housebrand. It's cheap-ass. $6.55 for 2 packs of frozen 1kg corn. 

Tasting Notes
You know how corn can be oh so nice, soft, fluffy and sweet? Not this one lol! It's the opposite of all of em! Treat yourself better and buy a better brand like this one.



TLDR version
Use this corn if you need to feed your enemies or if you hate yourself. Or use it as a filler.