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Download links for 2020 Pesach guides:

CRC Pesach Guide
Star-K Pesach Guide and Medicine List
OU Pesach Guide
OK Pesach Products Guide
Kof-K Pesach Product List
COR Pesach Guide

HT: Jewish Heritage Center of Queens and Long Island for most of these links

https://www.pesachbox.com/


List of things you shouldn’t forget

Last minute small cleanup prep:

Spill salt out of silver salt shaker (crumbs from Challah)
Empty out vacuum cleaner
Clean out the draw on bottom of the oven
Check pockets for crumbs


Buy/Make/Get

Corkscrew
Seder candles
Eruv Tavshilin
4 kosos that are the right shiur (size/amount)
Kos shel Eliyahu (Eliyahu’s cup)
Keara (Seder plate)
Haggadas
Matza
Wine/Grape juice

Prep before Seder

Wash lettuce
Prep horseradish?
Boil eggs
Roast chicken leg + egg
Make/buy charoses
Cook veg for karpas (potato/parsley)
Salt water

Seder plate
Maror
Karpas
Zroah
Charoses
Chazeret
Beitza



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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #100 on: March 20, 2020, 12:34:40 PM »
Moving this here temporarily.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #101 on: March 20, 2020, 12:48:01 PM »
I cannot stress enough how important it will be to discuss any chumros (including those due to minhagim) with a Rov. This year is a true sha'as hadchak.
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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #102 on: March 20, 2020, 02:34:20 PM »
Get a good heavy duty food processor.
Any good deal?

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #103 on: March 20, 2020, 02:39:38 PM »
Support local stores when shopping for Pesach https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=115017.0

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #104 on: March 20, 2020, 04:02:31 PM »
@Dan can we have a thread for deals on items that are needed/useful for pesach?

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #105 on: March 22, 2020, 10:34:22 AM »
We need someone with experience to create a wiki.

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #106 on: March 22, 2020, 10:35:16 AM »
We need someone with experience to create a wiki.
+1. I might have to stay home for pesach, would be much easier for a wiki than having to read through the whole thread.

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #107 on: March 22, 2020, 11:56:45 AM »
A frum wholesaler opened a special website where he is selling his upscale party goods (plastic cutlery, etc.) at wholesale prices (but no wholesale quantities required) with free shipping if you spend $99.

Wholesale.smartyhadaparty.com

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #108 on: March 22, 2020, 12:24:35 PM »
We need someone with experience to create a wiki.
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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #109 on: March 22, 2020, 12:31:16 PM »
This is a helpful resource, but first, read this thread about shopping local. If your local store cannot service you, then resort to online shopping. Or use this online list to help you plan for local shopping.

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=115017.0

Online Pesach shopping list: https://betweencarpools.com/the-pesach-kitchen-master-list/

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #110 on: March 22, 2020, 02:45:32 PM »
A stand kitchen mixer for cakes/baked goods (you could buy a cheap one like sunbeam dont need a heavy duty one like kitchenaid)

A food processor for kugels

Get new oven racks for pesach. If you self clean your oven and leave the racks in it will become harder to slide in and out of the oven.

On that note many ovens break if you self clean. Ask Rov if there is ways around this (500 for a few hours). If you have a double wall oven and need to self clean definitely do it at separate times (and open a window).

The St moritz oven spray is amazing but be CAREFUL. Can cause burns.

Get a sink insert if you have stainless steel sinks so doesnt scratch the sink

I have a small toaster oven and fridge that I use for chometz once we change over so the kids can eat (will prob change motzie shabbos before yom tov this year) and leave it in dining room

We are a family of 6 (2 adults 4 kids) and we used 7lbs of matzo last year. Last year there was no shabbos chol hamohed but we did have guests/family for a seder and other meals which probably (definitely?) wont happen this year. So I assume around 7lbs again. (Rather have too much then too little!)

A bottle of wine equals a bit more than all 4 cups. So a bottle of wine a person per night.

Definitely talk to your Rov regarding how to clean your kitchen (you might be a lot more machmir than you think).






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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #111 on: March 22, 2020, 04:57:05 PM »
I cannot stress enough how important it will be to discuss any chumros (including those due to minhagim) with a Rov. This year is a true sha'as hadchak.

cant wait to see the ashkenazim eating kitniyos

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #112 on: March 22, 2020, 05:00:07 PM »
cant wait to see the ashkenazim eating kitniyos
Huh ? No way. In your dreams....

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #113 on: March 22, 2020, 05:00:49 PM »
Huh ? No way. In your dreams....

was a joke but what do you think they did in prewar europe when there were no potatoes?


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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #114 on: March 22, 2020, 05:05:25 PM »
was a joke but what do you think they did in prewar europe when there were no potatoes?
I have no clue. I haven’t heard any crazy pesach stories from my grandparents.
 Either way, what are the chances we won’t be able to go to away to our parents for pesach ? I can imagine there will be a Kol koreh from r Chaim kanievsky not to go away because that’s what his gabbai put in front of him...

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #116 on: March 22, 2020, 05:10:40 PM »
Apparently Amazing Savings will not remain open. that just made this 10x harder for some people

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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #118 on: March 22, 2020, 05:59:58 PM »
I tell my wife there is no concept in halacha of "cleaning" for Pesach, only searching for chametz. Cleaning is only necessary in places that might come in contact with food on Pesach, and to the extent cleaning is necessary to make searching possible.

Agree?
If you don't care why would you comment?
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Re: Making Pesach For The First Time
« Reply #119 on: March 22, 2020, 06:15:36 PM »
I tell my wife there is no concept in halacha of "cleaning" for Pesach, only searching for chametz. Cleaning is only necessary in places that might come in contact with food on Pesach, and to the extent cleaning is necessary to make searching possible.

Agree?
But in place that "machnisim bo chometz" -  places actually used for chometz, like the kitchen, you need to 'search' for very long,  while holding a scouring pad and cleanser.
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