What's the point of its existence? Why would you want to add it into your dish? It's not like it was outright bad, but I tred to add it to different vegetable mixes, fry it with rice, put it into soup (roasted with onions) and the likes, but in any of those cases I couldn't help but think "what value does celery brings here?" The taste is meh, the look is meh, everything I cook with it would stay pretty much the same without it. Why should I bother with it at all?
if you eat a bunch of it you'll shoot fat loads
>>20976201Its pretty good in stuffing
>>20976201>Redpill
>>20976216Never understood why people do this, stuffing is so much better when it's soft and fluffy. I don't want it to have wet crunch
>>20976201It's good for sounding
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>>20976201>>20976216>>20976217funfact: celery is mostly water
>>20976201get some celery salt and taste it, you will realize what it adds to a dish. celery has a very distinct MSG-like taste due to glutamates, it's a very unique vegetable and if you can't notice it's absence in a dish, I genuinely don't know what to tell you other than work on developing your palette. I understand if you don't like it, but you should be able to taste it.
>>20976201>>20976252and btw the reason I say try celery salt is it's like the glutamate taste of celery refined and concentrated. celery is mostly water like somebody else said, so it can be subtler. in fact, I often just put celery salt in dishes instead of celery. but celery does provide a subtle foundational note, try the salt and you'll see what I'm talking about
>>20976201It is a flavour adder. Make a soup. Now make it with chopped celery added. Now make it with too much celery (like 5-6x the recommended amt). In the last sample, the celery is almost overwhelming.
I love it, I add it to a lot of things. It functions a lot like carrot and onion, it's a tough root vegetable that can withstand a lot of punishment.One tip I'd give if you plan to eat it raw or just slightly cooked is to cut it very finely horizontally, because the stringiness that holds it together runs vertically along the stalk. It can be annoying hard to chew if you don't cut against that grain.
Celery leaves are also good for soups
>>20976284Do you cook them with the soup or add them at the end like parsley?
>>20976246Thanks my urethra retracted into my abdomen
>>20976252celery is bitter. try eating some celery seeds if you don't believe me. you think celery salt tastes like MSG because celery salt is mostly sodium with traces of celery
I can't think of anything that's made better with celery, and it's almost always inferior to onion.
>>20976201What is wrong with you people, celery is essential for a proper chicken soup, and chicken soup is one of the staples of real American civilization. (It's also pretty nice in chicken salad, sometimes even tuna salad.)
>>20976201it's like if water with hair in it was a vegetable
>>20976446fermented picklesare improved with celery, home packed v8 is also tons better.
>>20976201When it's raw and sliced fairly thin, like in a salad or tuna salad, I like the crunchWhen it's cooked, it does add a nice flavor, particularly in soups and stews
>>20976201Bugs needs to study up on his racism because he's imitating two very different cultures here.>>20976248Fun fact; so are you.
>>20976207>if you eat a bunch of it you'll shoot fat loadsThis sounds like bullshit but this anon is actually right. Also its a decent almost-zero calorie snack. Just dont go dipping it in 8000kcal worth of ranch for every bite.
>>20977970>he's imitating two very different cultures hereWhich?
