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Kashering

  • Kashering
  • air bnb, stove

If I am renting a vacation home, can I use the treif stove?

  Can I use it for both milchig and fleishig if I bring my own milchig and fleishig pot?   Answer: The stove may be kashered. See guidelines here: https://asktherav.com/download-kashering-made-simple/…

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  • Kashering, Kitchen, Ovens

How do I kasher an oven in my new apartment?

  Question: The oven in the new apartment is completely cleaned, but not brand new. I tried to kasher it by turning it to the highest setting (550) and for…

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  • Kashering, Kashrus, Meat and Milk

I baked dairy chocolate chip cookies on a pan in a meat oven. What should I to do?

  If the oven was clean from meat and wasn’t used for meat during the last 24 hours, then the cookies may be eaten. Otherwise, the cookies should ideally be…

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  • Bishul Yisroel, Kashering, Kashrus, Kitchen, Meat and Milk

A non religious guy cooked in my kitchen. Do I need to Kasher my stovetop?

  Question Details: A non religious Jewish guest cooked chicken in a fleshig pot. However, he cooked on my milchig burners on the stove top. He also put a fleishig…

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  • Kashering, Stam Yeinom - Wine
  • crystal, decanter, wine decanter

How can one kasher a crystal decanter that likely held wine? Hagola may crack it.

  If it wasn't washed together with treife keilim, it does not have to be kashered. יו״ד קלה, ח. וגם הרמ״א לא הגי׳ - ראה מג״א תנא, מט. ובמנ"י כלל…

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  • Kashering, Kashrus, Kitchen, Meat and Milk
  • one sink, יו"ד קה

Milchig dish left in the Fleishig sink for more than 24 hours

  Question: We only have one sink in our apartment. We have separate buckets for milchig and fleishig. On Thursday I mistakenly put the milchig pan and other keilim in…

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  • Food, Kashering, Kashrus, Ovens
  • air bnb, microwave

Is one allowed to cook food in a kosher pot on a non-kosher stove top?

  A. Yes, by placing something in between (a blech, silverfoil, metal hanger).   Q. Is one allowed to use a tea kettle of a non Jew who only uses…

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  • Kashering, Shlichus
  • glass, glass electric stove top, stove top

How do I Kasher a glass electric stove top for someone who needs a leniency and has not been keeping kosher?

  Under the circumstances you may rely on the following: clean the surface well, wait 24 hours since last usage, turn the elements to the highest heat and pour boiling…

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  • Kashering, Ovens, Shavuos

Kashering Oven from Milchig to Fleishig

  Question: If I have baked dairy food in my oven, can I make it fleighig after by raising the temperature for a certain amount of time? I also have…

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  • Kashering

Can I Kasher an immersion blender?

  Question: I have an immersion blender (a stick) and the blade is on the end of a metal stick (not plastic). It has been used for milchig (possibly hot,…

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  • Cholov Yisroel, Kashering
  • waffle maker

Is it possible to Kasher a waffle maker if it was used with a Chalav Akum waffle mix?

  Question: I just made a batch of waffles with a waffle mix that was mislabeled as being parve, but I see now that the ingredients include a dairy (chalav…

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  • Kashering

I have a pan that I don’t know whether it is dairy or meaty, I want to kosher it so that I can use it for meat. Is there a way for me to do that?

  If it was used for either meat or milk, but didn't get used for both at the same time, it can be kashered either via libun kal which involves…

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  • Kashering
  • יו"ד קכב

A home, with a full Kosher kitchen, had Goyim working there as home attendants during a span of several years. Do all the dishes need to be Kasherd?

  Question: A home had goyim and not observant yidden working there as home attendants (one at a time) throughout the day and night during a span of several years.…

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  • Cholov Yisroel, Kashering
  • ceramic, Kitchen Kashrus Accidents

Instant dairy non-Chalav Yisroel coffee was prepared and drunk in parve coffee mugs.

  Question: Instant dairy, non-chalav yisroel coffee was prepared and drunk in coffee mugs which had been used solely for parve hot drinks. We keep chalav yisroel, but the guest…

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  • Kashering, Kashering (Pesach)
  • epoxy

Can epoxy countertops be kashered?

  Epoxy is similar to a hardened glue or hard plastic. Accordingly, Minchas Yitzchak 3:67 writes that initially one should not purchase plastic vessels with the intent to kasher them.…

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  • Kashering
  • Cast iron

I bought a pre seasoned frying pan from Amazon, does it need to be Kashered?

  Unless it has a reliable Hechsher, the skillet must be kashered before use. The proper way to kasher new cast iron cookware is through hag’alah, which involves bringing a…

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  • Kashering, Kashrus, Meat and Milk

Heated up a milchig cup with Pareve chocolate chips in a Fleishig microwave

  Question: By mistake, I heated up parve chocolate chips in a milchig cup in a fleishig microwave. The cup is Corelle. Then I mixed it with a milchig spoon…

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  • Kashering, Kashrus, Meat and Milk
  • microwave

Is there a permissible way to kasher yeshiva’s fleishige microwave to be used for milchig?

  Question: Is there a permissible way to kasher yeshiva's fleishige microwave to be used for milchig? In our case, there was no treif situation, but we're not doing this…

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  • Kashering, Kashrus
  • dishwasher

Can I Kasher my dishwasher?

  Question: These are the relevant details: It has been used by previous non-Jewish owners, The inside of the door is stainless steel with a plastic dispenser for the soap.…

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  • Kashering, Kashering (Pesach)

If I am doing הגעלה do I have to wait 24 hours after I clean it, or I have to wait 24 hours since the last time I used it?

  After the last time used. To be precise: When kashering from treif: waiting 24 hours before Kashering is from the last time it was used for Treif, unless it…

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