I toiveled a pot recently. Before I toiveld it I took off all the chatziztos. My wife then used the pot for cooking in. However, after a week or so we noticed that… Read more »
Category: Kashrut
Chopped Spinach
Can one use supermarket frozen chopped spinach? Answer: If the spinach is finely chopped (this is usually the case), it is permitted for consumption. If the leaves are cut but… Read more »
Kashering the Microwave
When kashering my microwave, does it matter if the vessel is milchig or fleishig? What happens to the vessel when the microwave becomes kosher? Answer: Several authorities have written that… Read more »
Not Kosher Medicine
I take a special medicine voluntarily called Creon. It is an enzyme meant to break food down easier in the digestive system. I just found out it is made of pork… Read more »
Meaty Sponge for Parve Utensil
Can a parve utensil be cleaned with a fleishig sponge and still remain parve? Answer: The utensil would remain parve provided that one of the following three conditions were met:… Read more »
Tevilas Keilim in River
Can one use a lake or a river to toivel their vessels? Answer: Natural lakes and rivers can be used for tevilas keilim, provided they contain 40 se’ah (of course,… Read more »
Milchig Oven for Fleishigs
I wanted to know what the halacha is about l’chatchila using a fleishig oven for milchigs. I know it is recommended to cover up the milchigs with silver foil (either… Read more »
Milky Ice Cream After Food Cooked in Meaty Microwave
if i made a egg (pareve) in a meaty microwave may i eat a milky ice cream thereafter? Answer: Yes, there is no obligation to wait after eating food that… Read more »
Kashering the Oven
About 15 yrs ago I had several baking pans I used for making bread….some of them were used as dairy pans and some as fleishig. We moved out of town… Read more »
Pyrex Pans
About 15 yrs ago we moved to a different country and left our things in storage for around 7 years. Nothing was used. When we finally received our household items,… Read more »
Fries in Meaty Oven
I baked uncovered french fries in an oven i only use for fleishigs. it is not a ben yomo. can it be eaten with or at the same time as… Read more »
Mexican Fish
We moved recently to Mexico. There is a frozen fish here with a Mexican hechsher. the fish is filleted and has no scales that can be seen. I called the… Read more »
Oven in New House
We moved recently into a new house. The real estate agents told us this house is brand new, was just built about a year ago, and have never been lived… Read more »
Tevilah of Plastic/Metal Spoon
i would like to know if i have to toivel my babys spoon, the top is metal and the bottom which he leaks is plastic thank you Answer: If the… Read more »
Cooking in the Garbage Bin
I have asked this question to a number of rebonnim and have not heard an answer. Why is there no custom to have separate milchig and fleishig garbage bins in… Read more »
Tevillah of china dishes
Does china (dishes) require tevila? Answer Glazed china requires tevillah without a brocha
Pareve rice in an old milky pot
If I have a metal pot that was used a long while ago for milchegs – if I now us it to cook parave rice only – what is that… Read more »
Tovelling a coffee machine
What is the halacha if one buys a coffee machine that has metal piping inside it but I am afraid if I toivel the entire machine that it will break?… Read more »
Fish/meat on grill
I have a kashrus question as follows: I used a George Foreman Grill last week for fish and I wanted to know if its okay to grill meat on it?… Read more »
Separating Challah
When separating challah for “hafrashas challah”. do you take off the part completely and then make a bracha? make a bracha on the whole dough and then take off the… Read more »
Boiling eggs
When boiling eggs, how many eggs needs to be boiled at once? Answer Some have a custom to boil at least three together. (The idea behind this is that in… Read more »
Coffee machine
My non-religious boss brought in a coffee machine. The coffee he uses at the office is regular kosher coffee but I don’t know if it was always that way. He… Read more »
Kashering kitchen after renting to gentiles
I am renting out my apartment to non jews. It is fully equipped. What, if any of the appliances are ‘kashurable’ so that I wont need to replace them. I… Read more »
Lewhiff- is it kosher?
There is a new product called ‘lewhif.’http://lewhif.com/ It is made of chocolate powder that apparently only goes into one’s mouth but not into one’s lungs or stomach. It’s like a… Read more »
Pareve food cooked in a meaty pot
These are theoretical questions, not a request for psak. I’m asking from an Ashkenzi perspective. 1) The Rema rules in Yoreh Deah 95:2 that non-charif pareve food prepared in an… Read more »
Beis Yosef Meat for Ashkenazim
Can Ashkenazim eat Beis Yosef meat? Answer: If the Hechsher is Makpid on the Rema’s rulings yes, but sometimes such hechsherim are only Makpid on the Beis Yosef – so… Read more »
Kashering Crystal Cups
Can colored crystal glasses (there is no gold or silver on them, just the crystal itself is colored) that came from Jews that were not very frum but have not… Read more »
Tevilas Keilim – Redoing
Before yuntif a new set (about 80 pieces) of cutlery was bought and toiveled. I discovered after they were toiveled that one of the forks had a thick black goey… Read more »
Tevilas Kelim – Saltshaker
Question: Does a glass saltshaker require tevilloh? Answer: A saltshaker that has a glass container to hold the salt and a glass cover with holes in it needs tevilloh with… Read more »
Tevilas Kelim – Pickle Jar
Q We bought some pickles in a glass jar. I do not know if the jar was immersed in a mikve or not, but I somehow doubt the hechsher includes… Read more »
Ma’ase Uman – Tevilas Kelim
Q I just got a new toaster, and when I was going to open it, I discovered that the screw head is not a standard one; I’ll need a Torx… Read more »
Hagalah – Plastic Utensils
Question: Is it possible to do hagalah to plastic utensils? I heard that nowadays it is since the utensils could withstand boiling water. Is it true? Answer: Doing hagalah does not depend… Read more »
Kashrus Level – At Home & Outside
כבוד הרב. אני בדרך כלל מקפיד על הכשרים מסויימים לא מחמת שאני יודע שהשאר אינם טובים, אלא בגלל שכך הורגלתי, אלא שחמי שיח’ יש מגוון הכשרים נוספים שהוא צורך, אני… Read more »
Davar Charif
Question: I have a pot and a Kitchen-Aid bowl and beater that I’d like to keep parve. I realized today that I hadn’t designated a parve knife, and last Sunday… Read more »
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