How to Freeze Celery 

Ive always had great luck freezing celery. I do roast kits where i put my pork roast, red potatoes completely raw, raw onion, raw carrots, an raw celery together in a food saver bag and then i vacuum seal it up and freeze it. I pull it out stick it frozen and all into a crockpot with some campbells slow cooker tavern style pot roast gravy pouch and just make sure to slow cook for 8 hours on low. Best meals for busy days! And easy prep work

Thank you! I also have a little trick that I learned after working for years in the flower shop, and cleaning & cutting the ends off flowers stems and put them in buckets of water and into our walk-in cooler. I remembered in school when I was a young girl this test where we put food coloring in a cup of water and the celery that we cut and watched the color go up into the stem. Knowing this and after working in the flower shop now I cut the butt end off my celery after it's been in my fridge for a few days and to make it last weeks longer. I use this little trick and I cover it with clean plastic bag & standing on the butt end and into a mason jar that's wide enough for all the salary to go in and I used it out of my jar, and refresh the water every few days just like you would your vases of flowers. I also use this trick with my lettuce trimming off thin slices of the butt of the lettuce so it is able to soak up the water after washing the lettuce. I do this with other veggies as well. If you ever have grapes that are getting a bit soft I take them off the stem, put them in cold water in the refrigerator for a couple of days and they plump back up nice and firm. I wanted to freeze some celery so I googled and found your video and took what was left over of my celery and froze it for soup. Thank you very much for your video.

Don't forget to plant the bottom base after sprouting some roots...also I learned to dehydrate the leaves and then grind them into an excellent spice. Nice video!

I always freeze 1cup diced onion, with 1 cup diced carrots , 1 cup celery. Then vacuum seal and freeze. Works beautifully, done it for years, no blanching. Tastes great.

I put my cut celery right into a zip lock bag, set my timer for one hour, shake the bag, put back in freezer at one hour intervals for about 6-7 hour so that I can skip the cookie sheet method.

Thank you so much! I love cooking with celery, but as a single person usually have lots left over. I can eat some of it, but am glad to find out I can save some as well. I'm almost 80 and never knew this! :)

I had no idea celery could be frozen! I usually only freeze green peppers, thanks for this video😊

Hooray! I've been waiting for this video. Thanks Amanda!

I would love for you to do more of these basic food videos. At our local food pantry people will turn down things like beans, rice, flour because they have no idea how to cook it or preserve it. The cupboard will be overflowing with these types of items, but people will still chose the heat and eat variety. A pound of rice will go a lot further than a can of soup.

I'm so glad you posted this. I've always avoided freezing celery because I thought you had to blanch it first. I'm happy that you don't and it still freezes beautifully!

Amanda!!!!! AWESOME idea!!!!! Love it!!!!!

Thank you so very much for showing your method of preparing celery for the freezer. I usually freeze things for future use, and sense I use celery sometimes this method will allow me to prepare and have it on board for those future uses. Thanks much and God bless!

Hi Amanda! I watched you do celery like this on another video of yours and have been doing it ever since, and love it. Thanks for the tip!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family 🦃🍽🥧

oh, separate first. so far, best way i have seen that makes sense. Thanks for sharing.

Good idea Amanda, for have to try this!! Also if you have a vac. sealer, for put in small bags & will last a longer time. And save the bottom, to plant your own celery, for I have and watch it grow quickly and dark green color!!

I didn't know that you could freeze celery. I'm glad I came across your video so I won't have to throw so much away in the future. Thanks.

Thank you. Great advice.

Another good video! Thanks Amanda.

Very helpful. Thanks!

Just what I was looking for. I grew a bunch of celery and didn't want it to go to waste!

This is a great idea!

Putting them on parchment paper makes it easier to get off the tray. And you can fold the paper up after and put it in the freezer for later uses.

Great video thank you very much for sharing that didn’t think about the extra bag for the broth

Great video now I have celery for meals if when there's not any in the stores , or until I can start growing my own, thank you.

Great idea about freezing on flat surface!

For some reason I though you couldn't freeze celery. This is so helpful. Celery frequently goes bad in my fridge.

Thanks very good idea to save them .👌

New subscriber. Love the tips!!!! 👍🏾💯👍🏾

Great idea !!!!

Awesome!! Thank you sooo much!! No more wasting celery. Do you have any celery recipes 🤔

Great freezing tips. Thnks!

I will sometimes line my pans with parchment and freeze that way I can pick up the paper and dump quickly and it doesn’t stick to anything!

Crazy! I have 3 bags of celery and was not sure what to do😂😂😂 thanks! Kristy in Missouri 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the helpful tip....gonna put my ginger on a tray the next time 😀

Thankyou.. God bless

Thank for the video

I always understood that veggies of any kind need to be blanched first in boiling water for two minutes then iced water for two minutes. This enables the veggies to retain all the vitamins and good stuff.

Awesome

Whole video summation: Clean it. Chop it. Freeze it on a tray then store in freezer in a ziplock bag. Use from frozen straight in to pan for mirepoix or soffrito.

Such a helpful vid...thanks, Amanda...ps I hate to waste food, especially produce.

very clever ideas

Thank you

This was so helpful. Ive always wanted to know how to do this, Thank you.

Great to know, I freeze pepper 🫑’s in the freezer.

thank you

Thanks for this. We were given a huge bag of celery that's cut into little squares. There's only my hubby and myself and we're old (which means we don't eat much at our meals). We eat salad every day, but this celery won't last long enough for us to finish it. Now I know that I can freeze it to use later in cooked meals. Awesome.

Thank 😊 🙏 you

I'm interested in freezing (its) celery juice. Would that still be healthy?

I just cut my celery in small pieces ,rinse them -wash them-let them dry for 30 minutes and place them in the bag and freeze. no muss or fuss!

i wouldn't bother separating each stalk. rinse the whole bunch under running water and vigorously shake off excess water. Pick out the leafy bits. Proceed to slice the whole bunch until near the bottom and then wash each stalk base. Much faster.

I freeze on aluminum trays it makes it easier to get them off the tray and into the bag.

How Long can I keep them in the freezer?

celery tops are great in soups & broth

Those little "branches" are known as ribs!

Hi Amanda I only have 2 9x13 pans, I guess that would work too?? Glad you made this. Now I know wrap in foil and how to freeze. Is it same with carrots and onions. I often find mind get bad, when really all I want them for is soups or adding into chili??? Let me know. 😊

Branches / Stalks 🤣😂😄good Vidio

Can you discuss broth bag? How do you use it?

A couple days ago I did a bunch of large batches of mirepoix to stock up my freezer. I cooked it first but I might try not cooking it next time

Thank you! I'm surprised no blanching is involved.

I read that the air in fridge and freezer is toxic. So we have to cover all food. I would put the pieces of celery in small zip loc bag ( the size of sandwich bag)and freeze without laying them flat. That way, i can use the whole small bag each time i cook. No need to lay flat without cover in freezer. If i want to lay flat, i would lay flat in big zip loc bag and close the bag so that the air of freezer does not get in food. Then i would lay the bag flat. But i do not have to do that. I use small bag. So i do not need to lay the celery flat uncovered in freezer.

They are called ribs.

👍 I do the same with fruit. Especially small fruit like berries

Ive done this before however you thaw and they go soggy or watery...how do i stop this?...do i cook when frozen and not thaw?

Is this just for cooking celery or can I thaw and use say in macaroni salad

Do you know if you can do this with carrots?

Thank you can I use frozen celery in salads

Can I put my celery in the freezer than put it in the put it in the blender will it lose all the nutrition values of the celery

I do mine the same way except I dry my celery off the best I can before I cut and my slices are a bit thicker than yours.

Do you ever juice celery after u freeze em

Will the frozen celery be still crunchy?

You look like "Bones" actress.

If you use it for salad is it still crunchy?

Does it thaw well to use in like a chicken salad or something that isn't cooked?

What was the paid promotion, did I miss it?

branches = stalks

Hmmm. My freezer won’t fit pans like that...even smaller pans would be difficult. Also I’ve read that you want to blanch them first.

You use celery the same.e way I do. No wast.

This video is unneccisarily long. i couldnt get through it..

Stalks lol

If you factor-in the cost of your time, wouldn't you save money by doing something else with the celery, even throwing it away? Of course, if you consider your labor as having a $1 per hour value, then go ahead and take all the time you wish because, essentially, your time is worth nothing.

Thank you