Nope. I do it by hand....with the help of my DH!
If you find a better way, let us know!
Sorry,
Deanna

I do it by hand but I don't obsess about it. Most of what little remains comes off when it's blanched.

Carol

When I shuck corn, I cut just into the bottom row of kernels; split the silks at the top and pull down in two batches. Cutting into the bottom row will make more of the silks come off when you pull the shucks off. The last step is to put the shucked ear under running water, hold tightly with one hand while twisting with the other. Rinse off the holding hand because it will grab lots of silks. Won't get 100% but works far better than anything else I have tried. As a side-bar, it seems to me white corn in general, and Silver Choice in particular, fight a battle royal to hang onto their silks. So if you are working with white corn you may be one strike down at the start.

I rinse the cobs in my sink and wipe the silk off with a dry dish cloth or towel. Actually, I wipe the silk off before I rinse. Carol is right, a little silk doesn't matter.

After husking I wipe off most of the silk with a dry paper towel.

We do it in much the same, but a little different.

A friend and myself do alot of canning/preserving together.

When it comes to corn, we put up a pickup bed full of corn.
We hire two or three people to shuck and silk, well kind of silk.
We have two big plastic tall, big baskets/tubs, they shuck it, put the shucks in one basket and then the other basket is filled with water, they rub the ear to get rid of silk and drop it in the water.

She and I cut it off the cob, cream style. When we get the ears, we get it out of the water, rub it again, put it in another pail of clean water and then cut it off, just taking the top 1/3 of the kernel and then scrape the cob.
Then it is blanched and put in quart freezer bags.

We put up 66 quarts about three weeks ago, 33 quarts each and I agree a little silk doesn't matter. We started about 1:30 pm and were finished by 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

There is nothing better than sweet corn, it is alot of work and very messy, but we do it all or most of it outside and have a good time while we are doing it, or TRY to!

Perhaps you could try using a Maxi Gripper, made by Griptex. They're used to help you open jar lids, or to stop ornaments etc moving around. They're available here in Australia under a different name, but I was sent some from America in a gift parcel and I think they were purchased from Trader Joe's.

Cornsilks, used fresh, and made into a tea, are an excellent remedy for UTIs!!

I just shucked about 200 ears by hand and they were easy to get the silks off. Just a bit of moisture on your hands and you roll the cobs in your hand and that gets rid of a lot of them. Once cooked down, the silks are so thin they nearly disintegrate. If your blanching the cobs, and then cutting off the kernals and freezing them, very little if the silks are left.