Which part of ginger is most commonly used in cooking?

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. Aside from these uses, ginger had religious significance among Austronesians, being used in rituals for healing and for asking protection from spirits. It was also used in the blessing of Austronesian ships. Traditionally, the rhizome is gathered when the stalk withers; it is immediately scalded, or washed and scraped, to kill it and prevent sprouting.

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Silvia Levame

I love ginger!

Richard G Schwartz

I eat a lot of ginger.

Char

I too use a lot great for heartburn and tummy upset. I got off the pharmaceutical meds and use that instead for me it works 100% better. Scary I use to do rinitadine for it tried a couple more the purple made me so sick. The last one I did seemed to cause the heartburn more just like the others.. Lol so I love my ginger

Carmel Herbert

Kenneth Pyeritz, because it is correctly called a rhizome.

Player

I use ginger a lot in my cooking.

cathie

I love ginger ale and Bundaberg.

janellejaworski

I love ginger well especially ginger ale that I like.

dsneed

Something I have known from the gut. I cannot remember a time when I did not know this. Yay me.

chefrosner

Dennis Myers, As above, MOSTLY the root is used. It is why it is referred to as Ginger Root.

chefrosner

Dario Gritti, the questions was "what part was MOSTLY used in cooking", and that is the root.

chefrosner

Lisa Rodrigues, Ginger Root is another name for Ginger. In no part of the explanation was the word rhizome referring to the root of the plant. Read more carefully before you trash the explanation.

Karin Johansson

Char, i am so tired of some of those people. They are everywhere. I want to have a quizz club free from them.

Karin Johansson

Dario Gritti, the question asjed which part that is MOST used. Learn to read every word in the questions!

Lisa Rodrigues

A rhizome is not a root. Root is the non green part of the plant that normally grows under the soil and supports the plant. Rhizome is an underground stem meant for the storage of food. Example potato, onion, ginger etc.