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| OK How do you define the amount of celery. Stalks, blades,ribs? Bulbs and cloves of garlic are no problem, but I have had recipes define celery differently, and sometimes it is confusing. I usually let common sense rule, but I wondered if there are defining terms. Thanks |
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| I think stalks, blades and ribs all refer to the individual pieces of celery. |
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| Celery: 1/4 of total weight of mirepoix. |
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| The whole thing is a head of celery, unless the end with the leaves has been chopped off, in which case it is a celery heart. The individual pieces are either ribs or stalks. Thinking in the same terms as garlic: Garlic --------- Celery bulb ----------- head clove ---------- rib or stalk |
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| Wow, Suzanne. I'll bet you cleaned house on the Miller Analogies test! ![]()
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| What I've read disputes what Suzanne said. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find the source. The stalk of celery is the whole thing, as it all grows as one from one spot. A rib is the individual strand from the stalk. Epicurious' dictionary supports this; notice the last sentence of this quote: Quote:
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| Phil, thats very possible. I posted what I use, and what I teach the people I work with. Could be wrong, but at least we're all wrong together and are all speaking the same language. ![]() |
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| Oh, I agree. I see stalk used in recipes all the time when you obviously don't want that much celery in the dish. Phil |
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| To confuse matters even more, I usually refer to a "head" of celery as a "bunch" of celery.
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| sheesh, how confusing. LIke I said, I usually let common sense prevail, but it would seem that blade and rib would be the individual pieces, and I could see that stalk could be the whole thing, even though I always thought of 'bunch' as the whole thing. |
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| I wonder how much of the confusion comes from regional differences in nomenclature? Anyway, whatever makes sense -- I mean, if you're making a dish for 4 people and the recipe calls for 2 stalks of celery, you can figure out which it means. |
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| That's true suzanne, I do figure it out, I just wondered if there were 'standard' labels. Thanks guys! |
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| Upon further research, the Food Lover's Companion (3rd edition) makes it sound like the individual things are called ribs, surrounding the heart, and what holds it all together I guess is called the stalk, ie "leave the ribs attached to the stalk until ready to use". It also says "celery grows in bunches" so I guess Pete is right about that. |
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| in my years of culinary experience a stalk is what is connected to the heart what some call a rib. wow that doesnt help at all does it oh well i guess what suzanne said is right at least we are all speaking the same language.
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