When I was a young boy and lived with my mom and grandpa in a three room house with only electricity, a well, a coal burning stove - AND an outhouse...there was a bucket with water and a bunch of corn cobbs in it...guess what it was for?
Sorry about my curiousity, but how does one clean a corn cob? Swish it in water, and let it dry? Scrape it with a pocketknife? Now's the time to ask, before I need to use one.