Every hashgacha has +&-.
Interesting you ask that. Actually according to everyone, one must wait 6 hours after consuming hard cheese. For example pizza falls under that category, but not milk or yoghurts. That's their standards.
FTFY
I think the point is that they consider even cheeses like mozzarella, which are harder than cottage cheese but not normally considered a hard cheese for the purpose of waiting 6 hours, as fully hard cheeses
that seems to be a bit of a chidush, as those arent aged cheeses, but im not gonna pretend to know the cheese industry
It is definitely a chidush, but that's what he was saying - that they consider pizza to fall under that category. I have heard that in EY some hechsherim have the same approach.
The discussion of time one needs to wait after eating cheese has nothing to do with "Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim"It belongs here "All Halocha Shailos and teiffa Questions" or I'm missing a way that a Hechsher can impose it on consumers.
Bishul is not like pas and I a product requires bishul Yisrael it's not kosher without it. Hearts of palm are edible raw (in the country's that they grow in) and don't require bishul Yisroel
Just went through this on a Kashrus WhatsApp group several weeks ago.Apparently Rabbi Hendel A"H from Montreal also held that way. So the older folks of the Lubavitch community in Montreal, as well as his family/descendants adhere to that ruling. IINM rav Landau of Bnei Brak rules similarly. However from what I understand most poskim don't hold that way.See https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/aged-cheese-list/And https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/are-all-fromages-created-equal-waiting-between-cheese-and-meat/
Is canned hearts of palm cooked? If Yes Does it require Bishul Yisroel? And is OU in general makpid on bishul YISROEL?
As far as I know the OU is makpid on bishul Yisrael where they believe it's needed. For instance, the OU doesn't have a good turning in fires for breakfast cereal because they hold its not required ( not sure why anyone would hold that corn based cereal is a bishul akum problem) as far as hearts of palm go, the OU believes that it is nechal chai since in the lands where they grow they are eaten raw and doesn't have a problem of hakol lefi hazman vhamakom since wherever they do grow they're eaten raw.
Ocean spray cranberry juice cocktail had a triangle K, does it need an actual hechsher?
yes