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==Which materials can be kashered?== | |||
# It is possible kasher wooden, metal, or stone utensils. It is impossible to kasher earthenware utensils. <ref>Kitzur S"A 116:1-2</ref> | # It is possible kasher wooden, metal, or stone utensils. It is impossible to kasher earthenware utensils. <ref>Kitzur S"A 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> | |||
==Hagalah== | ==Hagalah== | ||
# If a vessel is used a majority of the time for cooking in liquid it is cleansed through boiling water. <Ref>Chazon Ovadyah (pg 124) </ref> | # If a vessel is used a majority of the time for cooking in liquid it is cleansed through boiling water. <Ref>Chazon Ovadyah (pg 124) </ref> | ||
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# If one isn’t going to put any hot food on the counters on Pesach, it is sufficient to clean the counters very well. If one is going to put hot food on the counters on Pesach, one should clean and cover the counters. Regarding kashering the counters, see the footnote. <Ref> The Tur and S”A 451:20 write that the minhag is to pour hot water on the tables and cabinets used for food during the year because sometimes hot liquid chametz spills onto them. The Magen Avraham 451:38 quotes the Maharil who records the minhag to cover the tables and cabinets after this kashering procedure because perhaps some actual chametz was stuck onto the table or cabinet. | # If one isn’t going to put any hot food on the counters on Pesach, it is sufficient to clean the counters very well. If one is going to put hot food on the counters on Pesach, one should clean and cover the counters. Regarding kashering the counters, see the footnote. <Ref> The Tur and S”A 451:20 write that the minhag is to pour hot water on the tables and cabinets used for food during the year because sometimes hot liquid chametz spills onto them. The Magen Avraham 451:38 quotes the Maharil who records the minhag to cover the tables and cabinets after this kashering procedure because perhaps some actual chametz was stuck onto the table or cabinet. | ||
* Kaf HaChaim 451:233 notes that wooden tables which one always eats on with a tablecloth don’t need to be kashered and one should simply remove the actual chametz and wipe down the surface. Rav Mordechai Willig (“Shiur 64 – Pesachim” min 80-82) says that strictly speaking this is also true for countertops on which people don’t put chametz directly. Rav Hershel Schachter [http://www.ou.org/community_services/video/67558 (OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5769, min 11-13)] adds that one could either kasher the counters or cover them, but if one isn’t going to put any hot food on the counters on Pesach one could simply clean the counters well. | * Kaf HaChaim 451:233 notes that wooden tables which one always eats on with a tablecloth don’t need to be kashered and one should simply remove the actual chametz and wipe down the surface. Rav Mordechai Willig (“Shiur 64 – Pesachim” min 80-82) says that strictly speaking this is also true for countertops on which people don’t put chametz directly. Rav Hershel Schachter [http://www.ou.org/community_services/video/67558 (OU Pre-Pesach Webcast 5769, min 11-13)] adds that one could either kasher the counters or cover them, but if one isn’t going to put any hot food on the counters on Pesach one could simply clean the counters well. | ||
* | * Thus, Rav Moshe Feinstein (quoted by Halachos of Pesach p. 140) maintains that one should not kasher Formica countertops, which are made out of hardened plastic, rather these should be washed and covered.</ref> | ||
==Microwaves== | ==Microwaves== | ||
