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 »
Category: Kashrut
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 »
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 »
Pigskin in Shoe
Question: Is there any Halachic issue with wearing shoes that are lined with pigskin? Answer: We are allowed to benefit from non kosher animals, therefore it wouldn’t be any different… Read more »
Smelling Non-Kosher Meat
Question: Is it true that a person should say I wish that I could eat treif, but Hashem says that it is Asur? Could there be a suspicion that if… Read more »
Status of parve pan used to reheat dry chalavi food (e.g. cooked pancake)
Question: I have my last parve pan and I accidentally reheated already cooked chalavi pancakes on it. (I didn’t put any oil in it. Just used it to reheat the… Read more »
Spring Valley Melatonin
Question: Does Melatonin need a Hechsher? Somebody brought me this to Israel, where Melatonin is hard to get and very expensive if available. I have high blood pressure and have… Read more »
Dairy garlic bread
Question: How is it possible that all the garlic breads in pizza stores in israel are forced by badatz to be made with milk to be mezonot isn’t it prohibited… Read more »
Washing meat spoon used for DE pareve desert in meat dishwasher
Question: After our meat meal, we cleared table and brought out pareve DE ice cream. We served ice cream with a meat spoon. Then we put the meat serving spoon… Read more »
I used dairy stuff to eat food that had meat in it
Question: I used a dairy spoon to put food with meat in it into a dairy bowl. The food was in a meat pan out of which I served myself…. Read more »
Milk soup spoon to drink chicken soup
Question: I accidentally used a milk soup spoon to drink chicken soup, what should I do with the spoon in order to reuse it? Answer: The spoon just has to… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Checking things with hechsher
Question: Do i have to check israeli oatmeal with good hechsher? I found black spots in my already cooked oatmeal but not in an uncooked pack(i checked pretty well) so… Read more »
Can i use a pareve knife for cold cuts
Question: I have a pareve knife that i keep pareve. I have huge bulky cold cut loafs that i need to cut and the only knife that would do the… Read more »
Do these things require a kosher certification?
Question: Good morning, I’ve started a new diet plan that requires very specific ingredients to be consumed. I’ve looked for these products but apparently none come with a hechsher. I… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Coffee spilled on Fleishig bowl
Question: There was a fleishig bowl out and as I had milchig coffee some spilled and got into the bowl. The bowl was clean and had not been used recently…. Read more »
Cooked frozen vegetables in a milk pot, then strained them in a meat strainer. Is the strainer treif?
Question: A house guest cooked frozen vegetables in a milk pot (no onions), but then strained them in a plastic meat strainer. IS that strainer now treif? Do we have… Read more »
basar bchalav
Question: i had gotten fleishigs (chicken) on my phone then hours later touched my phone and then handeled pizza to put it away..is this a problem? Answer: While it is… Read more »
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 »
fish with garlic cooked in clean fleishig pan and reheated in clean milchig frying pan. Status of milchig pan?
Question: Fish was cooked in fleishig pan together with garlic. Next day reheated fish in milchig frying pan. Is milchig frying pan treif? Neither the fleishig nor the milchig pans… Read more »
Organic chocolate with no kosher sign
Question: Does an organic chocolate bar require a a kosher sign? The ingredients are: raw cacao, raw agave nectar. With an allergy caution for coconuts and sesame seeds. If it… Read more »
grilling non pas Yisroel wraps to make them pas Yisroel?
Question: I am a chef and I work in the local farmers market with a skillet and grill and I make egg wraps. I bought non pas Yisroel wraps which… Read more »
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 »
Can we eat the chicken soup I accidentally left out uncovered overnight?
Question: Can we eat the chicken soup I accidentally left out uncovered overnight? Answer: The reason we don’t eat uncovered water or wine is not because it is unpure, but… Read more »
If you divide a dough between classmates and everyone home a piece do you have to give challah
Question: If you divide a dough between classmates and everyone home a piece do you have to give challah Answer: A dough that has a shiur of Challah, but the… Read more »