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Links to kosher symbol lists. Each list is obviously only as reliable as its source

cRc: http://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php

KosherQuest: https://kosherquest.org/kosher-symbols/

Approved alcoholic drinks from the Rabbanut.  http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/wp-content/uploads/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D.pdf

These are NOT Orthodox: https://sites.google.com/site/nonorthodoxkosher/home (even though some may look legit)


Informative post regarding Kashrus Agencies
Every hashgacha has +&-.


You can also submit any kashrus questions at
https://www.askcrc.org/ask
https://oukosher.org/ask-kosher-question/
https://www.star-k.org/ask-rabbi choose General Consumer Kashrus Questions in the Subject/Topic Dropdown list
https://www.ok.org/contact/ choose Kosher in the Attention Dropdown list



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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1720 on: April 25, 2018, 08:03:59 PM »
All potato chips are kettle cooked. Do you think they fry them in a sink?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1721 on: April 25, 2018, 08:09:05 PM »
Why can't they just have the rabbi flip the switch?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1722 on: April 25, 2018, 08:12:05 PM »
Why can't they just have the rabbi flip the switch?
They havetmidi?
Feelings don't care about your facts

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1723 on: April 25, 2018, 08:18:59 PM »
They havetmidi?

Remote control.

Or, comes in morning

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1724 on: April 25, 2018, 08:19:16 PM »
Why can't they just have the rabbi flip the switch?
They can when they're around. If you're interested in a midnight field trip one of these days may I'll shlep you to a Bishul Yisrael run at a major plant

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1725 on: April 25, 2018, 08:19:46 PM »
They can when they're around. If you're interested in a midnight field trip one of these days may I'll shlep you to a Bishul Yisrael run at a major plant

Yah, we go

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1726 on: April 25, 2018, 08:20:00 PM »
Remote control.

Or, comes in morning
Remote doesn't always work
Feelings don't care about your facts

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1727 on: April 25, 2018, 08:20:12 PM »
Remote control.

Or, comes in morning
no one is paying for daily visits. You're lucky if it's monthly visits.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1728 on: April 25, 2018, 08:21:26 PM »
Yah, we go
just missed a chance this past Sunday night....

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1729 on: April 25, 2018, 09:15:12 PM »
Remote doesn't always work

So push it again

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1730 on: April 25, 2018, 10:58:51 PM »
Pringles/Stacks are formed from fully edible (delicious) mashed potatoes.
Regular potato chips are sorted, washed, peeled, sliced, fried, sorted, then enter a shaker or tumbler for salting or seasoning.
At that point wouldn't they definitely be bishul akum? Maybe mayim genuvim yimtaku

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1731 on: April 25, 2018, 11:04:41 PM »
At that point wouldn't they definitely be bishul akum? Maybe mayim genuvim yimtaku
1. the mashed potatoes are made with direct steam injection (vs water which heated by steam aka steam kettles)
2. I believe they use the above btziruf R' Moshe's psak regarding bushul akum with industrial equipment.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1732 on: April 26, 2018, 07:10:44 AM »
Saw this in another group. Does the below make sense? Product was under KVH:

Was in Costco today and noticed the taboule didn’t have a kosher certification on it. I sent a message to the company via their Facebook page and this was their response:

"Hi,

We recently had to make a tough call which required the removal of our kosher  label. The truth is parsley can carry a small insect, aphids. Our parsley is machine washed with top of the line, industrial equipment 3 to 4 times. However, when the Rabbi inspects and finds 1 aphid all of the produce must be thrown out. Knowing how each piece of food must be carefully inspected, our company has much respect for the kosher process. However, if there is 1 aphid found on a parsley leaf we must throw away thousands of pounds of produce. We have now been in the dilemma to either keep up kosher standards, or to not waste the thousands of pounds of food. We have decided to continue our same high standards in the vegetable cleaning process as, but drop the kosher label for our taboule. We are thankful for our Kosher customers, and hope they can understand this decision. "

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1733 on: April 26, 2018, 08:36:58 AM »
Saw this in another group. Does the below make sense? Product was under KVH:

Was in Costco today and noticed the taboule didn’t have a kosher certification on it. I sent a message to the company via their Facebook page and this was their response:

"Hi,

We recently had to make a tough call which required the removal of our kosher  label. The truth is parsley can carry a small insect, aphids. Our parsley is machine washed with top of the line, industrial equipment 3 to 4 times. However, when the Rabbi inspects and finds 1 aphid all of the produce must be thrown out. Knowing how each piece of food must be carefully inspected, our company has much respect for the kosher process. However, if there is 1 aphid found on a parsley leaf we must throw away thousands of pounds of produce. We have now been in the dilemma to either keep up kosher standards, or to not waste the thousands of pounds of food. We have decided to continue our same high standards in the vegetable cleaning process as, but drop the kosher label for our taboule. We are thankful for our Kosher customers, and hope they can understand this decision. "
The gist is correct. Infestation fluctuated well beyond what we were comfortable with and the current wash system relied on human touch to much. There was talk about putting in a fully automated wash system but a apparently proved to difficult to meet the kosher spec.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1734 on: April 26, 2018, 09:59:33 AM »
eeeeew, it has bugs!

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1735 on: April 27, 2018, 10:53:05 AM »
The gist is correct. Infestation fluctuated well beyond what we were comfortable with and the current wash system relied on human touch to much. There was talk about putting in a fully automated wash system but a apparently proved to difficult to meet the kosher spec.
I've never heard of a major kasharus agency not willing to certify parsley or the like in a commercial setting.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1736 on: April 27, 2018, 11:01:26 AM »
I've never heard of a major kasharus agency not willing to certify parsley or the like in a commercial setting.
you just did

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1737 on: April 27, 2018, 11:23:36 AM »
I've never heard of a major kasharus agency not willing to certify parsley or the like in a commercial setting.
They are willing to certify it, but the manufacturer is not willing to follow their guidelines.
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1738 on: May 01, 2018, 09:48:54 PM »
Does kosher animal rennet make sense?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #1739 on: May 01, 2018, 10:25:31 PM »
Does kosher animal rennet make sense?
probably not. Can you post a full image or specify what product and brand?