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# It is possible kasher wooden, metal, or stone utensils. It is impossible to kasher earthenware utensils. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 116:1-2</ref>
# It is possible kasher wooden, metal, or stone utensils. It is impossible to kasher earthenware utensils. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 116:1-2</ref>
# If a vessel was used even once for Chametz it needs to be cleansed to be used for [[Pesach]]. A bread knife which was once for cutting a Chametz food that was hot such as warm cake, warm breaded-chicken, or used to stir chulent. A teapot needs be cleansed because it probably touched Chametz when it was warm. <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Isser VeHeter vol 3 pg 470) </ref>
# If a vessel was used even once for Chametz it needs to be cleansed to be used for [[Pesach]]. A bread knife which was once for cutting a Chametz food that was hot such as warm cake, warm breaded-chicken, or used to stir chulent. A teapot needs be cleansed because it probably touched Chametz when it was warm. <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Isser VeHeter vol 3 pg 470) </ref>
# There is a question if it is possible to kasher plastic utensils. Generally, one should refrain from kashering plastic. <ref>Rav Shimon Eider in Halachos of [[Pesach]] (p. 137) rules that one may not kasher plastic utensils for [[Pesach]] based on Igrot Moshe 2:92 who doesn’t allow kashering synthetic rubber since it is a new material that wasn’t discussed by the Rishonim.  See Chazon Ovadia (p. 151) who allows kashering plastic. </ref>
# There is a question if it is possible to kasher plastic utensils. <ref>Rav Shimon Eider in Halachos of [[Pesach]] (p. 137) rules that one may not kasher plastic utensils for [[Pesach]] based on Igrot Moshe 2:92 who doesn’t allow kashering synthetic rubber since it is a new material that wasn’t discussed by the Rishonim.  See however, Chazon Ovadia (p. 151), Minchat Yitzchak 3:67, Chelkat Yaakov YD 45, Tzitz Eliezer 4:6 who allow kashering plastic. </ref>
# The Ashkenazic minhag is not to kasher glass.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 116:13</ref> According to Sephardim, one never needs to kasher glass, as it does not absorb. Rather, one must wash it thoroughly. The same is true for Pyrex and Duralex.<ref>Yechave Daat 1:6</ref>
# The Ashkenazic minhag is not to kasher glass.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 116:13</ref> According to Sephardim, one never needs to kasher glass, as it does not absorb. Rather, one must wash it thoroughly. The same is true for Pyrex and Duralex.<ref>Yechave Daat 1:6</ref>