I feel the same as you, my wife loves celery and puts it on everything but I feel like it subtracts flavors on most stuff. She eats raw celery all the time, I can maybe stand it with a lot of ranch next to some buffalo wings
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I’m with you - celery is horrid. Right up there with coriander for me as something that completely overpowers and ruins anything it’s used in.
There are dozens of us, literally dozens! But yeah I'm with you and OP, celery is foul, deeply offensive stuff. Cilantro too, but my hatred is reserved for celery. I've been told it's genetic or something but frankly none of that matters when one hates celery as much as I do.
It's my opinion that celery is both delicious and disgusting at the same time.
If you get very deep green celery, it's horrid.
If you get light green celery, or you peel off the outer deep green fibers, it's delicious again!
And the young leaves are absolutely sweet and delicious as all get-out.
But yeah I could see why a lot of people dislike it.
celery naturally accumulates produces nitrates, could be where the taste is coming from.
I hate celery but love cilantro.
Weirdly, after I had covid cilantro tasted like perfume and I couldn't stand it. I was very worried that it would forever be a ruined flavor, because it does definitely overpower food. Thankfully it's gone back to normal lol
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Sensitivity varies, and I find celery to be a nice and subtle flavor like onions and carrots on soup. Love celery with peanut butter on it, although for the crunch as the peanut butter totally overpowers it.
Some people are more sensitive to different flavors.
They do it bc that's how they learned it in culinary school / that's how the recipe goes. It adds a bitter flavor to balance onion and carrot. You don't need it and you can replace it with something else.
I just skip it when I make soup, and don't feel like anything is missing 🤷
Me too, I often skip it and my soups are fine.