Question: When kashering a sink for pesach, must the pot or kettle be a pesachdig pot or kettle? Answer: No you do not have you specifically use a pesachdik kettle…. Read more »
Category: Kashrut
Milky bamboo cup with tea stirred with meaty spoon
Question: Dear Rabbi. I used a milky bamboo cup (which did not contain milk for the last 24 hours) for tea, and i stirred the tea with a meaty spoon… Read more »
Seder plate Tevila
Question: Thanks for your wonderful website!! I bought a nickel plated seder plate. Does it need tevila?? Answer: Assuming that it is a metal plate that is nickel plated, essentially… Read more »
balsamic vinegar and honey on the liver
Question: I know the whole method of kasherizing the liver, my question and about the seasoning, can I put balsamic vinegar and honey in the seasoning of my liver after… Read more »
milichig spoon in fleishig dishwasher
Question: Dear Rabbi What is the halocha with a milichih spoon washed up in fleishig dishwasher? Thank you very much Answer: In retrospect it is still kosher, because the water… Read more »
milichig spoon put into hot meaty foods
Question: Dear Rabbi What is the halocha with a milichig spoon that touched hot fleishig food? Many thanks for your help Answer: Your question is very general, but if it… Read more »
Kashering preparation
Question: How well do pots have to be cleaned on the outside in order to kasher them, or use them as a kashering vessel. There is a tremendous amount of… Read more »
Kashrut – blackberries
Question: Hi, I have been told that blackberries cannot be eaten because they are very difficult to check for bugs. I have heard the same about raspberries, but that it… Read more »
Kashrut
Question: Isn’t it forbidden from the Torah of Moshe to cook and eat the fat of kosher animals? If so is one obligated to remove all the fat from the… Read more »
Use of Household Cleaning Products on Counters that does not have Hashgacha
Question: Can I use Mrs. Meyers cleaning products and soaps on counters and tables? It does not have a Hashgacha. If I can use the products, can I use them… Read more »
Tevillas Keilim in Current Pandemic
Question: Hi Does one have to tovel his keilim in the current pandemic seeming as other people might have been their and left behind the virus particle? Answer: The mitzva… Read more »
Leaving meat in a freezer Outdoors
Question: Hi, I have a fridge / freezer Outdoors and would like to know if there is a problem with the meat that will be in the freezer being that… Read more »
goyishe painters
Question: My apartment was painted by goyim. I had there meat in an opened package and wine that was not mevushal. The goyim did not know my schedule and I… Read more »
oats sometimes get white powder at bottom or all over
Question: Sometimes oats In the US get white and powdery or are only slighty powdery. Obviously the insects are not even visable with a jewelers loup….is this a concern? Or… Read more »
Question about kosher
Question: I am answering There was piece of cheese stick, a small one that fell into chicken soup, ansd was then removed. Chicken soup was half of pot in refrigerator. Is… Read more »
Rice cooked in dairy pot, transferred to pareve container
Question: I cooked rice in a dairy pot (that hadn’t been used for 24 hours) and transferred it to a pareve plastic container while still warm. Is the pareve container… Read more »
waiting six hours after dairy for meat- restaurant
Question: BH Thank you so much for your help. My question deals with going to a meat restaurant after having dairy. If a few hours has passed since the dairy… Read more »
Meat milk mix up
Question: I put milky plastic bowl, that I hadn’t used in a long time, in meaty dishwasher what do I do? Answer: You can still use the bowl. The reason… Read more »
Making DAIRY CUTLERY PAREVE
Question: CAN I put DAIRY cutlery in boiling water in a pareve pot to make it pareve? If yes, How long does it need to boil for? Does it make… Read more »
Pareve fork in cold Dairy
Question: I used a pareve fork in cold cottage cheese? What should i do to make it for pareve use again? Answer: The fork just has to be washed off… Read more »
Giving glass jars as a present
Question: If one is giving shalach manos in new small glass jars, does the giver need to toivel them before filling them and giving ? Is it like buying packaged… Read more »
Status of French Fries fried in a deep fryer used for dairy
Question: Can one eat french fries fried in a deep fryer used to fry dairy foods such as Mozzarella Sticks after having eaten meat? Does one have to wait the… Read more »
Worms in poppy seeds
Question: What color would the worm be? Answer: Please see the following link https://dinonline.org/Bedikat/poppy-seeds-whole-or-ground/ Thanks Sources:
Kashrut of tripe and kishke
Question: My questions are based on Jewish Cosher laws. 1) The tripe of an ox or a sheep is commonly eaten by Tunisian Jews but Is it allowed to eat… Read more »
Checking lentils and sprouts
Question: Please instruct how to check for insects in dark beans and dark legumes such as black lentils Also how to check sprouts Answer: Please see the following links https://dinonline.org/Bedikat/lentils/… Read more »
Accidentally putting meat knife on ceramic dairy dish. Both dirty.
Question: My son cooked himself a meat dish but after he had finished he put a meat knife he had used to cut the cooked meat in the dairy washing… Read more »
Cbd gummies and kashrus
Question: Cbd is a new line of products that help people with a variety of ailments (stress, anxiety, pain, depression, etc…). It comes in different forms. One of the ways… Read more »
bug checking- pomegranate
Question: I opened a pomegranate, put the seeds into water and i see little white stuff floating around. Is there any reason to assume that these are bugs? Answer: please… Read more »
Washing toveled dish/ glass in non kashered sink
Question: BH Hello, Thank you for your help. If a toveled dish/utensil (any kashered item) is washed with kosher soap and water in a non kashered sink (the sink is… Read more »
Host has questionable kashrut practices
Question: If I see my host that I am staying at, warm up uncovered dairy in an oven and an hour later heat up covered meat in the same oven…. Read more »
Milky spoon in meaty pot
Question: I accidentally removed 1 chestnut while boiling about a dozen chestnuts with a milchig spoon from a fleishig pot. What happens to the pot spoon & contents of pot?…. Read more »
Little black specks in Vitarroz Pasta De Guayaba from Brazil
Question: In Vitarroz brand Pasta De Guayaba (a jelly-like guava paste) from Brazil with kashrut of B.K.A. (Harav Ilovitch) I regularly find little black specks in various shapes and sizes…. Read more »
Water cooler
Question: Hi, My job moved into a new office building. Inside there is a water cooler. Are we allowed to use the hot water part of the if we are… Read more »
Immersion of utensils(tevilah kli)
Question: BS”D It’s raining a lot here in my town and I put a big 150-liter bucket under House gutter (spot that drains rainwater from the roof) and this bucket… Read more »
Trusting Religious Roommate Who May Not Be Religious
Question: Hi, I currently live with 2 roommates. When moving in together, the established “rules” for the apartment were that to move in, you needed to be shomer shabbos and… Read more »
re: https://dinonline.org/Bedikat/frozen-vegetables/
Question: Regarding the picture of the broccoli floret, that looks like a live caterpillar and fresh broccoli. What are the chances of EVER finding a live caterpillar clinging to a… Read more »
How to Kasher a metal insert crock pot
Question: So I found out the soup I was warming up was OU dairy in the crock pot made with a metal insert not ceramic. the crock pot was always… Read more »
Do you have to wait before dairy after eating something parve in a meat restaurant?
Question: If you go to a meat restaurant (say a shawarma restaurant) but opt for something pareve, such as falafel, do you have to wait the number of hours you… Read more »
Pareve-meat
Question: I heated in one pot pareve rice and fleishig chicken. I already ate the rice and I want to eat dairy now. Is the rice considered fleishig so i… Read more »
Put dairy creamer into real chicken soup
Question: I thought my cooking cream was pareve and mixed it into a disposable bowl of chicken soup. I ate a few bowls of it before noticing that the creamer… Read more »
Checking blueberries in Israel
Question: Can blueberries in Israel be checked for bugs? I have been buying Bodek ones but I see fresh at the store. Thanks Answer: Yes they can be checked. please… Read more »
Kashering of Knives
Question: My kitchen knives need sharpening. I have a client who is a former meat cutter, non Kosher. He’s offered to sharpen my knives. Can they be rekashered? If so,… Read more »
What should be done with a kosher utensil that falls in a non-kosher sink?
Question: I hope all is well by you. Due to where I live, at times I have to wash kosher utensils of mine in a sink that is also used… Read more »
I warmed up macaroni and cheese in my fleishig microwave by mistake.
Question: The macaroni and cheese I made was pretty dry and was not liquidy. I heated it in a plastic reusable bowl. The microwave was not clean and had dried… Read more »
Kashering oven
Question: I have a gas oven that often gets switched between meat and milk. I was planning on making dairy food in the oven for shabbos. I came home tonight… Read more »
Glass bottles like Snapple(Coke), They need Tevilah?
Question: BS”D Shalom dear Rabbi. Question: I recently saw that you have a machloket about the drinks, Snapple, if one should transfer the contents to another kli, and to do… Read more »
Transferring Ta’am via a Container
Question: Scenario A: If someone cooked vegetable soup in a Parve pot and poured it, while hot, into a plastic ben-yomo meat container, and then poured that soup into a… Read more »
Chicken baked in dairy glassware
Question: If accidentally chicken was baked in a clean dairy glassware that had not been used for more than 24 hours. Do I have to throw out the chicken and… Read more »
How to kasher a new rice cooker given by a non-Jew
Question: I took the inner pot to the mikveh and immersed it. However, a friend told me that I could not use it because it was given to me by… Read more »
Cooking fleishig food on a stovetop with milchig residue
Question: Lets say one has wants to cook fleishig food in a fleishig pot on top of a gas stove top. The gas stove top was recently used to cook… Read more »