Another use for a chamber vacuum sealer: re-crisp celery

[abadoozy]

Thought I'd post this as I was just tickled it worked.

The other night I pulled out the celery, only to find it went limp in the fridge. Blech. I've previously re-crisped celery by cutting the end off and leaving it in a glass of water for an hour or so, but I didn't have that amount of time. So rather than using limp celery, I started to think. Hmmm... I wonder if I could use the vacuum sealer to speed up the re-crisping process?

I pulled out a shallow tupperware container, filled it with water, and cut the celery in half, to about 4" lengths. Threw them in the water, put the whole bowl in the chamber of the sealer. Let it vacuum for 30 secs or so.

It worked WONDERFULLY. I had super-crisp celery in less than a minute. Very cool!

[judiu]

Cold water, or luke-warm, or ice water?

[ChrisTaylor]

You can also portion it in advance and store it under vacuum.

[abadoozy]

It was just water from the tap, neither cold nor warm really. Room temperature.

Storing under vacuum is a good idea, but that would require planning ahead, which I'm not very good at!