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  • Kashering utensils

Is it permitted to use a kli once before toveling it?

Question: Shalom Lchvod Harav! I heard that the Be’er Moshe held that the first time one uses a keili they don’t need to toivel it I would love a source…. Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas keilim
06/02/2019
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Basar vichalav

Question: I was frying eggs in clean fleishige pan it was not used in past 24 hours. then I used a dirty dairy spatula which still had cheese residue on… Read more »

Kashering utensils milk and meat
29/01/2019
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Tevilat Keilim – Electronics with Stickers on Outer Surface

Question: An Electronic sandwich maker that has labels on the outer surface (as in Warnings….) Do they need to be removed? P.S. The food will only touch the inner metal…. Read more »

Kashering utensils Chatzitza tevilas keilim
18/01/2019
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Kashering metal dish rack

Question: I just moved into a new apartment. I don’t believe the previous tenant kept kosher. The kitchen has a large metal sink, with a hanging metal dish rack that… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
13/01/2019
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Earthenware plates used for non kosher food can one eat from them

Question: Can you eat from an earthenware plate that was used for non kosher food ? Answer: If they were used for hot solid food, such as hot meat that… Read more »

Kashering utensils ceramic kashering
30/12/2018
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Tevilas Keilim question

Question: We got a new popcorn machine and my 12 year old son took it the store and asked the owner to toivel it for us. Is this valid or… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas keilim
28/12/2018
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How to kasher a fleish microwave?

Question: I have a brand new microwave. The first thing that I cooked was some uncovered chicken. Does this make the microwave only fleish or can I boil a cup… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering microwave
13/12/2018
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Do you need to tovel earthenware

Question: Do you need to tovel earthenware Answer:   The only materials that have to be toveled are metal and glass. Therefore earthenware does not need tevila. If however the… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas keilim
06/12/2018
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Do you have to tovel a glass 1.5 gallon water dispenser, if I reassemble it?

Question: Hi, I bought a 1.5 gallon glass water container that has a plastic spigot on the bottom, to dispense water/beverages. We don’t like the stock spigot and bought a… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas keilim
04/12/2018
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Toiveled a glass bottle with a sticker on it

Question: It seems I have to toivel the glass bottle again, once I remove the sticker. With or without a bracha? Made the bracha the first time. Answer: You should… Read more »

Kashering utensils Chatzitza tevilas kelim
04/12/2018
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Toaster oven

Question: Hello, I just bought the Breville toaster oven. How do I make it kosher please to use for my dairy cooking? Answer: All you need to do is to… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
30/11/2018
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Diary fork made treif and kashered too early

Question: A dairy fork was used for hot chicken. My wife then tried to kosher it by putting it in a boiling pot. She did not wait 24 hours. What… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering milk and meat
05/11/2018
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Does a food thermometer needs tevila?

Question: Does a food thermometer needs tevila? Answer: Essentially you do not have to tovel it, however it would be preferable to tovel it without a bracha. The reason for… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
26/10/2018
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Toiveling Earthenware vessel

Question: What is the biblical source for not being able to toivel a Kli Cheres? Answer: It is not that we can’t tovel it, rather it is that it is… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
26/10/2018
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Why is one required to wait 24 hrs before using a vessel belonging to a gentile?

Question: Why does one need to wait 24 hours before being able to toivel a vessel belonging to a gentile, what is the purpose of those 24 hours Answer: It… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
26/10/2018
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Do I need to kasher my kitchen?

Question: Food with bugs in it was cooked uncovered in my oven. Do I need to kasher my oven? What about utensils used to serve the food? What about the… Read more »

Kashering utensils bugs kashrus
14/10/2018
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Kashering a microwave

Question: I accidentally warmed up dairy food in my meat microwave. How do I kasher my microwave? Answer: Wait and don’t use the microwave for 24 hours. Then clean it… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering microwave
14/10/2018
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Toyvelling a bread machine

Question: How do you toyvel a bread machine. Answer: Remove the paddle before toveng the bread machine, insert the machine into the water at an angle so that the whole… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
26/08/2018
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Can you kasher a second hand espresso machine?

Question: how, Just let it run for a bit because of the heat of the hot water will Kasher it and just kasher the porta filter in a pot like… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
25/08/2018
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treif lid on kosher pot

Question: A treif lid (ben-yomo) that’s still hot was placed on a kosher pot with cooked cauliflowers in it. The pot with the cauliflowers was not yad-soledes bo and the… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
15/08/2018
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Concerns, in attempting to buy opened boxed items:

Question: Any opened boxed objects such as, glass (like Pyrex dish) or plastic (like parve plates) are they allowed to be bought and used. For the glass, must be dipped… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevila
14/08/2018
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frying pan kashrus status

Question: A few pieces of rice that was being warmed up together with chicken flew out of the pot and into a empty milchig frying pan. What is the status… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
12/08/2018
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Treif pastry in kosher mug

Question: Cleaning help made a hot coffee and dunked her trief pastry inside. Do I need to kasher it? If yes, how do I do that? Tizke lmitzvos Answer: My… Read more »

Kashering utensils kli sheini treif
05/08/2018
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I ate non-kosher food on a kosher plate

Question: Hello, I accidentally ate a piece of cake on a plate with dairy utensils. Afterwards, I realized the cake was not kosher (i.e., the ingredients were kosher but the… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering trief
05/08/2018
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Pool for Tevilas Keilim

Question: Can one use a swimming pool for tevilas Keilim? Answer: A swimming pool cannot be used for tevilas keilim, because the water does not stay in the same place… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
24/07/2018
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Required to tovel an electric hot pot owned and used by a goy?

Question: Do I need to tovel an electric hot pot that is used for hot water that is owned and used by a goy? I am staying in a summer… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
24/07/2018
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I forgot to remove the sticker on a pan. Do I need to re toivel with a bracha or without?

Question: I forgot to remove the sticker on a pan. Do I need to re toivel with a bracha or without? Answer: Before deciding if the poan needs a bracha… Read more »

Kashering utensils Chatzitza toveling
16/07/2018
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Kashrut

Question: Dear Rabbi, Accidentally I poured with parve stainless ladle hot meat soup into parve stainless pot. Can I make the ladle and the pot parve again? Answer: You definitely… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
05/07/2018
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China dishes, unknown if used for milchig or fleishig not used for 10 years

Question: china dishes that have a smooth coated finish-unknown if used for milchig or fleishig–never used together–they havent been used in over ten years—-can they be kashered? do they need… Read more »

Kashering utensils china kashering
25/06/2018
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Metal peeler that was inherited from a non religious Jew, does it need to be kashered?

Question: We inherited a peeler, which has metal blade. The owner was not Shomer Shabbos. Aside from Tvilah issue, what about Kashering. Is there an issue of “duchka d’sakena’ or… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
10/06/2018
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Sous vide

Question: Sous vide needs טבילה Answer: The sous vide immerser does not need tevilah, because it does not come in contact with food, and it is meant to merely be… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
05/06/2018
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Does this need to be toiveled?

Question: If I want to reuse a glass jar or bottle that was bought with food in it (eg. a coffee jar or whiskey bottle) do I need to toivel… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim toveling
02/06/2018
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China kli coated in glass

Question: If a china/cheres kli is coated in glass (like most common dishes today), would they have the dinim of a glass kli or a cheres kli in terms of… Read more »

Kashering utensils china
24/05/2018
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Mix up of meat and dairy /China plate

Question: My babysitter used my favorite dairy China plate (where I used to place hot dairy foods) for hot cutlets (meat!!!)…I haven’t used that plate for six months and not… Read more »

Kashering utensils china kashering
22/05/2018
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New oven kashrus

Question: When you buy a new oven, what are the steps that must be taken (other than toveling grates) before using it? Answer: When buying a new oven, and there… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
15/05/2018
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Can fire toivel a metal object or must be water

Question: Can fire toivel a metal object or must it be water Answer: It depends on what has to be done. If the metal vessel was bought from a non… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim toveling
18/04/2018
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can you kasher glas for use on peasach

Question: can you kasher a glass for peasach Answer: If the glass has absorbed something inside it with heat the Ashkenazi minhag according to most poskim is not to kasher… Read more »

Kashering utensils cleaning for pesach kashering glass
11/04/2018
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Can used glasses be used that were purchased in 2nd hand store..and if so do they need to be toveled?

Question: Can used glasses be used that were purchased in 2nd hand store..and if so do they need to be toveled? Answer: You can use drinking glasses that were bought… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering glass tevilas kelim
22/02/2018
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herbal tea concentrate without hashgachah added to cup of hot (but not boiling) water

Question: I added a spoon of liquid herbal tea concentrate that I subsequently discovered was not under hashgachah to a porcelain cup of hot water shortly after boiling the latter… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
15/02/2018
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What is my knife and how do I fix it

Question: I was cutting some frozen butter with my milk knife. I slipped and cut into my finger. Some of the blood got on the butter.  I threw the butter… Read more »

Kashering utensils eating blood kashering
13/02/2018
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using dairy fork to eat meat

Question: Tonight i are meat with a dairy fork. what is the halacha about kashering back to dairy? Answer: Wait until 24 hrs. after you used the fork, then wash… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
01/02/2018
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Burying treif items in the ground for three days

Question: Have you ever heard of burying kitchen items in the ground for three days that have been made treif by accidentally using meat for milk, etc Answer: No, I… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering
29/01/2018
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Is toiveling necessary after kashering?

Question: I am kashering my kitchen for the first time with the assistance of my local Chabad Rabbi. Question – Is it necessary to toivel items that have never been… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering kitchen tevilas kelim
12/01/2018
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Kashrus status of glass big measuring cup in which milk was heated

Question: What is the kashrus status of a fleishig large measuring cup in which my son accidentally heated milk in the microwave? It did not get extremely hot at all-… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering glass
08/01/2018
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Adhesive residue on bowl after toiveling

Question: I toiveled new bowls and afterward discovered some residue of adhesive from the label on the bottom of the bowl. Do I need to toivel again? Answer: It depends… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
25/12/2017
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Kashrus status of dairy bowl into which hot fleishig soup was poured and eaten

Question: What is the status of a milchig bowl into which fleishig soup was poured and eaten with a fleishig spoon? Answer: If the soup was poured on to it… Read more »

Kashering utensils iruy kashering milk and meat
15/11/2017
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Tovel Glasses

Question: I just bought glass shot glasses. Do I need to tovel them? Answer: If they were made in Israel, then we can assume that they were made by Jews,… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
03/10/2017
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Kashering items:

Question: My question: #44368 – just answered; you could only Kasher metal or glass item’s bought. So what am I supposed to do with the wood, plastic or ceramic utensils… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
03/10/2017
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Kashering newly bought items:

Question: My question that leaves me in wonder refers to kashering. When new dishes and kitchen utensils are bought from a non Jewish store, is it then an obligated must… Read more »

Kashering utensils tevilas kelim
03/10/2017
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Melted cheese in glass meat bowl

Question: My child’s baby sitter by accident melted cheese on noodles in one of our Pyrex glass bowls that are used for meat. Do I need to throw it out?… Read more »

Kashering utensils kashering glass
28/09/2017
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