HOW TO CHOP CELERY RECIPES

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• The three legs of a mirepoix are onion, carrots and celery, and they are so universal in cooking, that if you don't have the right knife skills and don't get proficient at dicing them, you’re going to spending way too much time prepping instead of eating!!  Dicing an onion is a bit of a different beast, and we’ll do a separate demo for that.  Carrots and celery are pretty similar though, and you can use the same technique for both.  Of course, you can modify your cuts, to vary the size of your dice, but large or small, knowing how to chop, is going to make your life a whole like easier. To quickly chop carrots and celery I follow a few simple principles: First, work with manageable sizes.  When you get really good, go ahead and keep the carrot whole; when you’re learning, cut it in half (or smaller) to a size that makes it easy to handle Second, create and use flat sides.  Round vegetables are hard to deal with because they are unstable on the cutting board.  But there’s an easy fix, cut it down the middle length-wise, and then you have a rounded side and a flat side.  Putting that flat side on the cutting board more gives you a much more stable base. Third, make match sticks, then dice.  Your first few cuts, you are going to make long match stick like pieces.  Go through the whole carrot, and get all your match sticks, and then go through all the match sticks to get your dice. Finally, consistency is your friend.  Different purposes will call for different size dice, and that’s perfectly fine.  However, for the same recipe you want to make the dice as uniform as possible.  Doing so will allow the vegetable to cook evenly, so you don’t end up with over cooked small pieces and raw big pieces.

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• Chopping celery, and just about all prep work is pretty boring.  And the longer it takes, the worse it is.  So why not learn the right techniques that will enable to get through the job that much faster?  Here, I show you how to do just that.  It's actually a pretty simple technique and not really any different than chopping a lot of vegetables and other ingredients.  It's important to learn if you want to be a better cook.  Knowing how to chop celery, a super common ingredient, will not only make you faster in the kitchen, but it will also enable to cook better meals.  You'll become more consistent, with each piece of celery of similar size and shape.  That helps to ensure each of the pieces cook the same, and taste the same...rather than having very large and very small pieces.  Hope you find this technique useful. How to Chop Celery Celery is very simple to chop and most of the work is already done for you First, chop the stalks in half, so they are easier to work with If you're looking for smaller dice, now chop the celery stalks in half, or in thirds the long way Because celery is not perfectly round it's pretty easy to find a flat/stable side; so place that most stable side face down on the cutting board Now grip the knife in your dominant hand, and keeping the tip on the cutting board at all times, rock the knife down to make your first dice Your other hand should be in a "claw" grip with the finger tips curled under the palm and out of the way.  Use this hand to guide the knifes movement down the celery stalk with each cut, making the dice with every cut Hope you find this technique useful!