Chop Celery for Tuna Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Richard Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make some tuna salad. Alright so I'm mixing my vinegar into my tuna and I'm just going to put that on the side. I'm going to grab my celery and just give it a quick rinse, washing off any dirt. Just a quick rinse, clean it off, take a paper towel off. Celery tastes great; great, great, great, you need celery. You can substitute onion with scallions sometimes, but I like onion better. So, if I only had a scallion I would use that, so I'm going to put this onion on the side here. First and foremost you want to take off the tops, the flowery part of the celery and just discard them, throw them away. And you want to chop this up real, real fine, you want to chop it real fine. So what you want to do is maybe slice it straight through, even slice it again because it will chop that much easier and then you are going to get your three pieces. Remember to keep the fingers in, fingers in and letting the knife hit the knuckle so you don't cut yourself always moving back with the knife. Again, small table, small cutting board where you just start moving back, cutting, putting the point down and bringing the back of the knife. Now if the pieces are too big, don't worry about it because this is the way I like to cut them. What you do is once you get your big pieces like this, put your point again down and just bringing the back of the knife up and down, more or less using your shoulder to pick it up and down and chopping them real fine. You put your celery into the middle and just keep chopping away and before you know it you will have it real chopped fine. When I come back I'm going to chop that onion. So you had to eyeball this so that you don't put too much celery or too much onion into it."