Chop Celery for Potato Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Richard Buccola and today on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make some good old fashioned American potato salad. Okay, so I am back and I've got my 3 stalks of celery. That's the first thing we are going to chop. So again, I take them over to the sink, give them a rinse, give them a nice cleaning, real simple. Just that get dirt off. I bring them back over here. What I like to do is I take the ends off. I don't like to use them. Some people will. Some will say ah, you are wasting that. I also take off the tips where the leaves are and I get rid of them as well so that just leaves the stalks. A real simple way to cut them is to chop them. Again, just go right down the middle chopping it and what I will do is chop it again down the middle. That gives them a nice fine cut and I'll even cut that one down he middle; real simple. Make sure that it is cut completely through and I will grab all 4 stalks that I just cut and do a real fine cut going straight down. You'll see how nice everything is chopped real simple. Just take your time. You don't have to rush. You don't have to be fancy like these guys that go chop, chop, chop. This is simple cooking. Have fun with it and it's something I usually make right before I go to work. I get up early and I know the guys are coming over and it's going to be the weekend. I'll cook it on a Friday knowing the boys are coming over for football, college football and even Sunday football. This stuff will last a good week but I tell you it is so good, if I make it on a Friday, it is usually gone sometime on Sunday. So that's your chopped celery. When I come back, we are going to chop our scallion and start putting all this together; American potato salad. "