It depends on what you're making. In most recipes, ginger root is grated and added to dishes and not usually boiled then added. If you're making candied ginger, you boil it in sugar water. In that case you boil it until it becomes tender when poked with a fork.
Ginger ale is actually made from the ginger root.
vegetative propogation
Yes, ginger is a tuber.
probably. my guess is that ginger root is the whole thing, and ground ginger would be chopped up/finely ground ginger root.
Yes, a ginger has a tap root.
Ginger is a spice
is mace similar to ginger root
Ginger is a spice
Yes. Plain Ginger Root Is Gluten Free.
should ginger root be taken before, with or after meals
It is the root, of the ginger plant.
The ginger is the root of the plant.