Question: I made French macaroons on parchment paper in a parve oven. I accidently used a fleishig pan that hasn’t been used for meat in a while. Can I put… Read more »
Category: Kashrut
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 »
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 »
How to keep bowls parve in a dairy kitchen?
Question: I have new serving bowls (ceramic). I want to keep them parve, so I can in the future integrate them into a fleishig kitchen I want to have when… Read more »
Do I need to check Dole California dates?
Question: Do I need to check Dole California dates? Answer: Although they are cleaner than other dates they shiould stiull be checked inside and outside for infestation. Sources: Star-K and… Read more »
vitamins
Question: Do vitamins need to be kosher. Is it kosher if it is gluten free. Is there a way to have vitamins without being kosher Answer: There is a difference between… Read more »
Can we use fresh rosemary or does it need a hechsher?
Question: Hi Can we use fresh rosemary or does it need a hechsher? Answer: It doesn’t need a hechsher, however if it comes from Eretz Yisroel you will have to… Read more »
Stains on aril
Question: There are dark spots on almost all aril of pomegranates . What can be the possible cause Attached: Attached file 1 Answer: They are not a issue of insect… Read more »
Mixing cold spicy food in Pareve bowl with milk utensil
Question: We have accidentally used a clean milk fork to mash cold avocado and garlic in a porcelain Pareve bowl. Is the bowl now permanently considered milchig? Or could there… Read more »
Popcorn kosher?
Question: We are staying at a hotel with a popcorn machine. If the kernels and oils are kosher, is the popcorn permissible? Thank you Answer: The ingredients are kosher as… Read more »
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 »
Eating bugs
Question: I ate bugs by accident. I have bottles of spices that are way too old and I’ve still been using them/allowing them to be used for cooking in my… Read more »
Question about bugs
Question: Is it true that the severity of eating bugs is different if the bugs are alive or dead? Which is worse? What if the bugs were alive and then… Read more »
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 »
Bdieved
Question: Is it better not to eat something that is kosher only bdieved if you don’t have to (and there wont be any loss)? Meaning can I go to a… Read more »
Is Metamucil kosher
Question: Is Metamucil kosher? Answer: Please see the following post, where a similar question was answered http://dinonline.org/2016/02/08/metamucil/ Best Wishes
Fleishig Kettle?
Question: Yesterday I put frozen chicken in a bowl of boiling hot water to defrost it. Around the same time today(roughly 23 hours later), I poured boiling hot water from… Read more »
Burning challah
Question: Hi. My wife has started to separate challah and she is struggling to burn it. We don’t have a gas stove top so there is no easy access to… Read more »
Hot meat pan on milchig table
Question: If a hot meat aluminum pan is placed on a milchig table (with a paper towel underneath) does this present a halachic issue? What if a few drops of… Read more »
Using food processor
Question: I want to use my parev food processor to make liver pate. No onion. Just liver and eggs and seasonings. Will it make my machine meaty? Answer: The liver… Read more »
Ate an omelette fried in a meaty pan, can I now eat lasagne?
Question: i ate an omelette fried in a meaty pan, onions and veg were chopped with a meaty knife, am i meaty, or can i now eat lasagne?? Answer: Yes… Read more »
Jewish eating patterns in the workplace
Question: Dear Rabbi, I am yet to learn my full hope as a working man today as a jew. I was yet kosher when I was employed and there was… Read more »
Hechsher
Question: Can I trust the BYL (Bet Yosef Lesfardim) hechsher on the lachma gene that’s sold in the Moisha’s Supermarket in Flatbush? Answer: My apologies, but I am not familiar… Read more »
Parve soup prepared on meat equipment, reheated by mistake in a dairy pot
Question: I purchased a cooker parve, vegetable soup from a takeout place, container said parve- prepared with meat equipment. I mistakenly heated the soup in a dairy pot. What is… Read more »
Meat fork in dairy pan
Question: Hi, I was making an omelette in a dairy frying pan (not used for 24 hours for dairy) and flipped it with a meat fork (not used in 24… Read more »
Milk and meat
Question: Can I drink either a hot or cold beverage using a milchig mug after eating meat? Answer: If the mug is clean and doesn’t have any milk in it,… Read more »
almonds
Question: Why do packaged almonds look “nibbled” on? Answer: The marks or small blemishes in the brown peel of almonds very often comes from the shelling machine. Sometimes it end… Read more »
Overnight onions
Question: Hello, I cut up some beets, and then some onions, and put them on top of the beets. I closed the container and planned to finish dressing the salad… Read more »
Changing teapots between: Dairy, Parve, and Meat?
Question: Is one simple teapot – Allowed to be used for all three settings. For instance, for breakfast (dairy), Parve (keep’n an isolation from dairy and meat) Dinner (meat). May… Read more »
Any Halacha for salt and black pepper built in shakers?
Question: This product is a salt and black pepper shaker/crusher (inserted already by the manufacturer company). On this particular item, there doesn’t exist any sorts of kosher symbol (on the… Read more »
Craisins from Israel
Question: I am in Israel. Badatz packaging on Kedma apple juice sweetened craisins says to check before use. Your page says craisins are clean of infestation. I bought packaged, not… Read more »
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 »
Accidentally put meat in parve pot
Question: I accidentally put ground turkey (cold) into a metal parve pot to mix it. It was probably in there for about 90-120 minutes, cold the whole time. Do I… Read more »
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 »
Taking Challah
Question: Hi, thanks so much for this amazing site!! A few questions regarding “taking challah”: 1. When is the proper time to be mafrish the challah? I have seen it… Read more »
Vitamix and greens
Question: Hello Do I have to check my greens if I will blend them in a high powered blender? Thank you Answer: Yes you should check the greens even if… Read more »
Barbecue sauce containing fish
Question: I used a certain type of barbecue sauce for meat that contains anchovies. If the fish content is more than 1.66 percent (not batul b’shishim) will the meat be… Read more »
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 »
Any known Halacha, for serving foods in kosher dishes for a secular Jew.
Question: A secular Jew, who consumed non kosher food – before he/she arrived at your house (to take part as a guest) and you get lost for a second. Do… Read more »
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 »
Halachic status of stovetop burner
Question: Do burners (above a stove) have a halacha as pareve? Like if one wants to heat a food item directly on burners like bread for example may he use… Read more »
Eating vegetables cooked in milky pan
Question: I cooked vegetables in a milky pan which hadn’t been used for over 24 hours. Can I eat the left overs with a meaty meal? Answer: Yes it is… Read more »
Seaweed
Question: Is there any company seaweed that is considered to be bug free? Answer: Answer from R’ M. Kuber shlit”a Perhaps, but I tell everyone to check the sheets, regardless… Read more »
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 »
Parve knife washed with dairy sponge
Question: I washed a parve knife (not serrated) with a dairy sponge. Sponge had likely been used in the previous 24 hours. Water was cold. Do I need to re-kasher… Read more »
Determining Kosher Birds
Question: I don’t understand something. If there is an explicit mishna in the Yerushalmi in Chullin (3:6) to rely upon describing signs of a bird, why would there be any… Read more »
Regarding the article on the Peacock (2011)
Question: What is the nature of not being able to properly identify the simanim when we have a wealth of scientific information about such things? If that were the case… Read more »
Does vape juice need a hechsher
Question: I see people using all types of flavored Vape juices that they smoke out of a pen – called a juul do these need to have a hechsher? Answer:… Read more »
Walnut
Question: If there is webbing, not sticky, on one walnut from a packet of shelled walnuts should they all be discarded Answer: It is not clear to me what non… Read more »
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 »