Question:
Hello Rabbi,
We moved into a house previously owned by non Jews and are renting. So oven is treif, racks, and grates - all treif. The oven is a self cleaning oven. I know I can run the self cleaning cycle to kasher the oven without anything in it. But can I leave the racks in place and stack up the grates on the bottom of the oven and run the self clean cycle in order to kasher EVERYTHING one time and at the same time?
Answer:
Hello,
When kashering with libun, all of the absorbed taste gets burned out, and nothing remains. Therefore you can put everything into the oven at once, and even if the racks are one on top of each other. Being that the heart will burn everything up. After running the cycle, check to make sure everything is now clean.
You would not have to clean the oven before putting it on the self-cleaning cycle, however the oven door, especially the area that will stay outside of the oven chamber, the gasket, and the groove underneath the gasket, should be cleaned well before running the cycle. It is preferable not to put pots down on the oven door even after running the oven on the self cleaning cycle.
Best wishes
Thank you for your answer. Just to clarify, I left the racks in place. I piled the stovetop grates on top of each other. That is still fine and everything is still kosher after running the cycle?
Thanks.
That is fine.
I guess this is not ideal, but is everything still fine even though I did not clean behind the gaskets?
B'dieved if you already used the oven the food is kosher, however under the gaskets should be cleaned, together with the part of the door that is outside the gasket, and rerun the self cleaning cycle.
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