Kashrus questions
bathsheba_c
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Sorry to start a second topic so soon after starting the first topic. I've effectively been eating dairy out for nearly 10 years, but now for the first time in my life have an actual kosher kitchen. Yay!
I'm trying to eat more home-cooked meals in an effort to eat healthier, and so I want to cook food in bulk and freeze individual portions to encourage that.
My first question involves tupperware. Could someone please give me a run-down of hilchos tupperware in terms of toveling, kashering, separating meat and dairy?
Secondly, when I make rice, pasta, or kasha to have as a side with [fleishik] dinner, I like to make extra to have with a glass of milk for breakfast. Do I need a dedicated pareve pot in order to keep doing this, or is there some shortcut I can take? I seem to remember the Mishnah Berurah saying that, as long as they're not served on the same plate, you can have, for example, something inherently pareve cooked in a meat dish at the same meal as something dairy, but I could be totally misremembering.
I'm trying to eat more home-cooked meals in an effort to eat healthier, and so I want to cook food in bulk and freeze individual portions to encourage that.
My first question involves tupperware. Could someone please give me a run-down of hilchos tupperware in terms of toveling, kashering, separating meat and dairy?
Secondly, when I make rice, pasta, or kasha to have as a side with [fleishik] dinner, I like to make extra to have with a glass of milk for breakfast. Do I need a dedicated pareve pot in order to keep doing this, or is there some shortcut I can take? I seem to remember the Mishnah Berurah saying that, as long as they're not served on the same plate, you can have, for example, something inherently pareve cooked in a meat dish at the same meal as something dairy, but I could be totally misremembering.
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The kashrut : Prohibition against cooking an animal in it's mother's milk to eating dairy and meat together. It's not kosher to put dairy foods and meats on the same plate, or even eat them during the same meal ( even a tiny amount of one or the other). So, cheeseburger- or even a regular burger with a milkshake - are out.Generally, wait a few hours after each meat meal ( fleishig ) before eating dairy ( milchig ), and vice versa. Fowl, like chicken, was once exempted from this law because they don't give milk, but long ago, rabbis decided that you can't mix fowl and dairy either. Fish is completely exempt from this rule.
Food that is not meat or dairy- includin every fruit, veg, herb, grains, fungus, nuts, is called pareve and is neutral. That is, you can eat it with either meat or dairy. Eggs are also pareve, but if the egg has a blood spot it's trayf.
The kosher status of food can be transferred to utensils or dishes ( except for glass). So most people have two sets of dishes- one for milk and one for meat- as well as two sets of utensils, ovens, and wash bins. Because there are additional kosher laws during Passover, some families own three or four sets of dishes, or use paper plates that week.
Kashrut laws extend to any item that Jews eat, or touches the food. So you want Kosher foil, plastic bags, tupperware which ensure that the manufacturer only used kosher organic oils in the process of pressing the foil or making the bags and so on. Most hard cheese contain rennet, which is obtained from the stomach linings of non-kosher animals, making the whole cheese non-kosher. You are in Israel right? Will I don't think you have to worry about non-kosher cheese as we do here in america.0 -
Thanks for the reply!
I would describe my knowledge level as knowing how not to treyf up a kitchen, but not knowing all the little details that make it easier to manage a kosher kitchen.
I guess a dedicated pareve pot for starches it is.
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6 hours after meat, 1 hour or half an hour after dairy (depends on your tradition) is the actual time to wait0
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your quote of the mishna beruvah is correct0
