I’ve cooked with celery nearly every day for years without realizing the strings were optional. Then I saw this ridiculously simple trick.
I use celery almost every single day. I chop it up for mirepoix, add it to soups and stews, mix it into chicken and tuna salad and, with two kids in the house, have assembled more ants on a log than I care to count. In all my years of cooking, though, I have never once stopped to consider whether I should (or could) remove the strings from celery.
I recently came across an Instagram video demonstrating an incredibly simple way to remove those stubborn strings with a paring knife. Not only had I never seen the trick before, but I hadn’t really considered celery strings something I had any control over. They were simply part of the celery experience, occasionally lodging themselves between my teeth like tiny
