Cutting Celery for American Style Potato Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Dave for Expert Village and today we making potato salad. Okay for potato salad we are going to do a little bit of celery and chop it up a little fine. It adds a little extra crunch to it. So we are going to take off a couple of ribs. We are going to take this on over to the sink and rinse this off. Now we have this rinsed off. This is how I like to do my celery. This is really tough at this one end. We want to take this off. Sounds like a lot and this is really stringy and not very tasty; put to that to the side. Same thing to the second stalk. Now you have these beautiful ribs. What I like to do is split them down to the end. I like to do this and do about thirds and put these together and just run your knife through these. I like to make these kind of small and when they go into your potato salad, you are going to have that beautiful flavor celery and that beautiful crunch. "