De-stringing celery?!
Answers: How do you do this? My wife had to go to work for a few hours and left me a note to make the relish tray to take to her mothers house. And it says to de-string the celery. What does that mean? I never heard of it. Should I bother with it? I don't even like her mother anyway.
if you chop celery up diagonally it will get rid of the strings.
on the top of the ridge of the stick of celery you have to pull off the stringy bits
Leave the strings in it will cause havoc with Ma in Laws false teeth.
naw,i dont know how.
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thats great,have a happy thanksgiving =]
Cut across the base of the stalk just above where it joined the base. Using the flat side of your knife you can lift several strings at once and pull upward toward the top of the stalk. You can de-string one stalk in two or three such strokes.
your funny!
I use a serrated-edge knife, such as a steak knife, to get the strings off my celery. Then I wash any remaining strings off under the cold-water faucet.
look at the celery stalks and you see those little lines running up and down with a knife cut a little bit of the stalk and you'll see them just pull down, and the reason you bother with it is because if you don't you'll end up with the string between your teeth. yuck!
Take a vegetable peeler and run it along the curved back of the celery. It removes some of the strings so the celery is easier to eat (and the strings often have a funny taste). It doesn't have to be perfect, just a few quick swipes with the peeler will get rid of most of it.
Good Luck!
The easiest way is to bend back and snap a rib of celery at the point where the stalk changes color from green to white. The strings will be exposed and can be gently pulled off the stalk.
To remove the strings, make a shallow cut at the end of each stalk; using a paring knife, pull the outer layer of flesh toward the narrow (leaf) end, catching the strings between your thumb and the blade. A vegetable peeler will work as well.