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moko · « **Reply #7580 on:** March 26, 2025, 06:29:09 PM »

Quote from: Chuchum Ainer on March 26, 2025, 02:48:33 PM

If they officially confirmed it, please post that confirmation. "I heard from reliable sources" is not official confirmation.

confirmed via the OU RC

HudZ · « **Reply #7581 on:** March 27, 2025, 08:25:38 AM »

Are Listerine strips good for Pesach?

imayid2 · « **Reply #7582 on:** March 27, 2025, 08:28:15 AM »

Quote from: HudZ on March 27, 2025, 08:25:38 AM

Are Listerine strips good for Pesach?

No
https://askcrc.org/item/Passover/1950

menotyou · « **Reply #7583 on:** March 27, 2025, 11:36:12 PM »

Any real dp on actual temperature Betty Crocker pizza maker gets to, re libun kal?

moko · « **Reply #7584 on:** March 28, 2025, 08:57:22 AM »

Quote from: menotyou on March 27, 2025, 11:36:12 PM

Any real dp on actual temperature Betty Crocker pizza maker gets to, re libun kal?

easy enough to get temp sticks and check it. Available on Amazon. I'll try and do it today or next week. What's the application for only requiring libun kal? Milchig to fleishig?
Need to think if this is exempt from the minhag of kashering back and forth (like an oven )

imayid2 · « **Reply #7585 on:** March 28, 2025, 09:04:56 AM »

Quote from: moko on March 28, 2025, 08:57:22 AM

easy enough to get temp sticks and check it. Available on Amazon. I'll try and do it today or next week. What's the application for only requiring libun kal? Milchig to fleishig?
Need to think if this is exempt from the minhag of kashering back and forth (like an oven )

If it was mistakenly used for the other one while E’by and triefed, you’d be able to do libun kal.

menotyou · « **Reply #7586 on:** March 28, 2025, 10:07:08 AM »

Quote from: moko on March 28, 2025, 08:57:22 AM

easy enough to get temp sticks and check it. Available on Amazon. I'll try and do it today or next week. What's the application for only requiring libun kal? Milchig to fleishig?
Need to think if this is exempt from the minhag of kashering back and forth (like an oven )

Actually chumra yeseira, someone used for milchig last yr and wants to make lukshen to lchatchila put in chicken soup and got a heter but wants to know why not also kasher, so no problem of milchig to parve. But yes it is pashtus nogaya when someone messed up on AB”Y, but as a PSA definitely not a good idea to go back and forth. (Whose idea is it to make a pizza maker red not blue? 😂)

moko · « **Reply #7587 on:** March 28, 2025, 10:12:57 AM »

Quote from: moko on March 28, 2025, 08:57:22 AM

easy enough to get temp sticks and check it. Available on Amazon. I'll try and do it today or next week. What's the application for only requiring libun kal? Milchig to fleishig?
Need to think if this is exempt from the minhag of kashering back and forth (like an oven )

there's also the good old fashion way of checking.
Stick a piece of paper inside and see what happens

imayid2 · « **Reply #7588 on:** March 29, 2025, 11:11:38 PM »

Some fascinating stuff here
https://mishpacha.com/food-for-thought-5/

BESED · « **Reply #7589 on:** March 29, 2025, 11:19:54 PM »

Quote from: moko on March 28, 2025, 08:57:22 AM

Need to think if this is exempt from the minhag of kashering back and forth (like an oven )

Why wouldn’t the Machtzis Hashekel apply to this?

BESED · « **Reply #7590 on:** March 29, 2025, 11:21:58 PM »

Quote from: menotyou on March 28, 2025, 10:07:08 AM

(Whose idea is it to make a pizza maker red not blue? 😂)

They sell different colors as well….

EliJelly · « **Reply #7591 on:** March 30, 2025, 12:24:43 AM »

Quote from: imayid2 on March 29, 2025, 11:11:38 PM

Some fascinating stuff here
https://mishpacha.com/food-for-thought-5/

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
I take in a lot of caffeine when I travel, plus we get tons of questions about Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts coffees, so I do a lot of research on coffee. So when I was in the airport in Davao City in the Philippines, I took a look at the coffees on sale, and was very intrigued by a small bottle of coffee with a picture of a cat-like animal on it. It turned out that the animal was not a cat but a civet, a small mammal native to the Philippines. Why was it on a coffee jar? I had to find out.

This is what I discovered: Many years ago, coffee was a commodity only the rich could afford. The story goes that a landowner went to visit one of his poor serfs and was offered a coffee. “What, you have coffee?” he wondered. It turned out to be the most delicious coffee the wealthy man had ever tasted, rich and sweet without the characteristic bitterness, and he pressed the peasant to tell him where he had gotten it.

The poor man was embarrassed, but under pressure, he revealed that coffee bushes grew in the area, and wild civets ate the coffee berries. The berries passed through the civets’ digestive system whole, and the impoverished peasants used to collect them from the waste material. They’d wash them, roast and grind them, and the coffee tasted amazing. It seemed that the civet’s digestive enzymes stripped the berries of their bitterness.

Civet coffee, or kopi luwak, is a premium item sold today, still produced in that same way. I bought the bottle in the airport, and I keep it here sealed in my office. It’s a great starting point for a halachic discussion. Is a kosher item digested with the enzymes of a treif animal still kosher? Well, if a treif fish eats a kosher fish and you find that kosher fish whole in its stomach, you can eat it. But when it comes to the coffee, there are halachic opinions on both sides.

Quote from: ponash123 on July 05, 2023, 03:25:54 PM

We then stopped at a coffee plantation for a fascinating tour and insight into the making of Luwak Coffee, as well as other coffees and teas.
Luwak is the Indonesian name for the Asian Palm Civet, a small racoon-like animal. The Luwak eats the berries and coffee beans, which then passes through its digestive tract. The beans are then defecated, gathered, washed, boiled, roasted and brewed. Although it sounds disgusting, the process yields a coffee that is delicious, much less bitter, and is one of the most expensive coffees in the world. The tour provided a step by step overview of the process and we then were given a cup of coffee to taste.
Although I never would’ve expected myself to be able to drink poop coffee, I did indeed and it was one of the most delicious, smoothest cups of coffee I’ve ever had.
The cost is about a tenth of what it is in the US so we made sure to stock up on a bag of beans to take home with us.