Want to keep celery crisp and fresh longer?

**MommyTrap** · 02-17-2009, 02:09 PM

My Grandma turned me on to this trick. Take celery stalk out of the plastic bag in comes in and wrap in in foil. It will stay fresh and crisp for a long time. I have had mine in the fridge for over two weeks and it is as fresh as the day I bought it. Also my Dad taught me if your celery is limp you can cut off a little bit of the bottom of the stalk to expose fresh stalk then set it in a jar of cold water overnight. The celery will "drink" up the water and crisp up again.

**Michelle** · 02-17-2009, 02:13 PM

I just "taught" Dave the re-crisping tip for celery yesterday. It was crisp w/in an hour or so.

**Spirit Deer** · 02-17-2009, 02:38 PM

I got a half-gallon Tupperware pickle keeper in a big bag of other Tupperware at Goodwill a while back. It doesn't have the inner part to lift the pickles out of the brine, and I thought I didn't have any use for it.

But luckily before I donated it back to GW, I figured out what a dandy celery keeper it is. It's just the right height to hold a half stalk of celery, and it's the right configuration to hold the stalks upright. I just clean the celery, cut it in half, add an inch of water in the bottom, and it stays fresh a long time. I just have to remember to change the water every few days. I usually just do that whenever I get the celery out to use it so it's not a big deal to remember.

**scottVee** · 02-17-2009, 03:45 PM

Interesting tip. However, if celery starts to go limp I just throw it in the next batch of soup.

**MommyTrap** · 02-17-2009, 04:00 PM

DH won't let me use limp celery...even in cooking it must be crisp! lol Once when my parents were over dh was going to throw away a bunch of celery.....well..........my parents too it home soaked it in cold water and ate it the rest of the week.