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If the celery in soup is crunchy or even detectible as celery, the soup is being made wrong. It should melt into the dish along with the onions and garlic. The only part of the mirepoix/trinity that should possibly be detectable should be the bell pepper or carrot, and even then they should be very broken down and no longer have a distinct flavor by themselves.
Which part of the celery? Only North America sticks to using the stalk only like it's some miracle growth. Most European cuisine discarded stalk for centuries, using only the root for soups and stews as a staple. It wasn't until fairly recently when celery stalk started seeing use in salads in Europe.
Yep, exactly. If it's palpably in the dish then it wasn't chopped finely enough or cooked long enough.
And if it is done right it can add a dimension of flavor. Carrot and onion develop a bit of sweetness when cooked a while. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it's not exactly what you're looking for in a bowl of chicken noodle. Celery, being disgusting when raw, doesn't do that and helps break that pattern up.
Raw celery with peanut butter is a good snack
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That's interesting... I like getting chunks of carrot and celery in my soups. I deliberately cut them large, about as large as you can get whilst fitting on a spoon, for that reason.
Carrots get sweet when boiled in a stew, it's lovely
They also reduce acidity of tomato sauce.
I make my stock with different veggies than my soup. I'll do a mirepoix both times but when I'm making stock I dice everything and when I make the soup I want big chewable veggies.
Sounds like OP would hate your soup
I appreciate that large chunks are easy to avoid... but that taste lingers, ew.
I 100% agree with your celery position.
This post has nothing to do with texture. OP is complaining about the flavor of celery.
Yeah, and the flavor doesn't stand out if it breaks down all the way. Their mention of crunch was a clue that they encounter chunks of it, which I agree are nasty in soup.
It does to some people, me included
Thanks. I think my side note about water chestnuts is throwing people off? Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that.
Water chestnuts are delicious though...so crunchy too
They don't taste like yummy celery though, they taste like water chestnuts. Which don't taste bad, it just doesn't taste like celery.
Honestly they are usually in Asian foods Ive eaten and seem to only add crunch...but now I'm curious
40 people showing off their lack of reading comprehension by upvoting that comment.
this is the way
I hate the flavor so I still usually notice it even when it's totally broken down beyond mush.
Raw celery's crunchy texture is kinda nice but I agree that doesn't go with soup.