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Kashering
Kashering literally means “to render or make kosher”, and whether it’s for your personal kitchen or a food manufacturing plant, the methods and reasons are the same. This can entail a major scrub down cleaning and then waiting at least 24 hours before proceeding to the next phase, which includes either torching/incinerating, soaking in a […]
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Kosher Chocolates and Candy
America’s veteran chocolate company has their famous chocolate bar kosher-certified. Did you know this? In fact, next Halloween when you check out every individual candy bar, you may find that all of the different brands are! But if the agencies claim that the kosher seal is a marketing tool that makes for better sales, why […]
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Kosher Wine
Jewish law, or halacha, separates their drinkable wine into two categories: kosher or mevushal. Because of the very strict and often difficult requirements to make kosher wine, most Jews have accepted mevushal wine. So what is this you may ask? Mevushal wine has been brought to a near boiling temperature to religiously purify it for the […]
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Kosher Cheese
Making hard cheese kosher involves full time attention from an observant Jew. And it is this observant Jew who must add the enzyme rennet to the mixture when it is at the coagulation stage. No other person is allowed to be substituted. In small operations or in times of past history, this was a purely […]
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Heinz is the First
The H.J. Heinz Company was the first large food manufacturer to mass produce a kosher-certified product for the grocery shelves in 1923. Heinz Vegetarian Beans were the first kosher version of their popular canned pork-and-beans. Other early adopters of this religious certification were WM. Wrigley, Jr. (chewing gum manufacturer), Beech-Nut, Inc., Best Foods, Inc., Dugan […]
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Glatt Kosher
Where it is reckoned that a century ago Americans craving a kosher diet would have generally been satisfied with eating plain kosher meat, today is a different story. A step above kosher meat is “glatt” kosher, and this is now the new norm as it has become more readily available. With glatt kosher meat, the […]
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