The first thing I learned in culinary school was how to prepare celery…
First we cut the bottom off the celery stock, wash the individual celery ribs and dry them with paper towels so they don’t slide around on the cutting board. Cut off the leaves and put them with the bottom to use in your stock pot
Celery Sticks:
Use a chef knife. Square up the ends and cut the ribs in half lengthwise. Then cut the halves in half again lengthwise. Cut these into thirds to create celery sticks….
To dice celery… We do the same thing as for sticks, but this time cut the celery into squares. This is large dice…
Small dice - cut the celery ribs in 6 sticks instead of four and make thinner diagonal slices which makes the squares smaller…. This is small diced celery….