Kosher Food

Food. Jewish law and tradition sets aside almost every rule about food if the choice is between eating and death. Rules you can't set aside? For example, if the choice is between murder or starvation, starvation is considered to be the right choice.

Now, let's move to food choices when starvation isn't the issue. At this point, the laws of kashrut, kosher eating, become relevant. The Bible forbids a long list of animals: Pigs, rabbits, mice and shrimp, for example. Given a choice, Jewish law requires you to limit your meat eating to animals that have cloven hooves and chew their cud (cows, sheep and goats), birds that are not predators or carrion eaters (chickens, ducks and geese), and fish that have both fins and scales. Furthermore, the mammals and birds must be properly slaughtered.

Then, there are rules about mixing milk and meat. No such mixture is permitted. The Bible forbids cooking a kid in its mother's milk three times. From this, Jews conclude that it's not just cooking meat in milk that is forbidden, but having any dairy product in contact with the same plate or cooking implements that has been used for meat. Eggs, fish and all vegetables are, however, considered neutral and may be used in any meal.

There's a whole lot more to Kosher eating than I've outlined here.

The head of the household says the kiddush blessing the sabbath (and similar prayers are said on Jewish holidays as well). These prayers essentially explain the background for the holiness of the day, and also include a blessing for the food which is about to be consumed.

At every meal a (generally silent) prayer is said thanking G-d for supplying the food. Separate prayers are said before eating bread, other foodstuffs, fruit and wine. On Sabbath and holidays, the head of the household says the prayer over wine or bread symbolically to indicate the entire meal, and the appropriate prayers are repeated silently by all the other participants.

Note that in Non-Orthodox households, there is no gender requirement for who says what blessing. Furthermore, in Orthodox households with only one gender (a widow with daughters, for example) there is also no gender requirements for who says what blessing.

Jewish people keep kosher. They do not eat pork or animal that were killed for meat painfully and slowly (rather then quickly,) they don't eat shellfish, and they don't eat dairy and meat together.

There is no prohibition against eating kosher meat during Shabbat. The reverse is true; it's expected that meat be eaten during the two main Shabbat meals.

On Passover, Jews cannot eat leavened bread (whereas they can at other times of the year). Shabbat does not mirror this. The same kosher rules for the rest of the week apply on Shabbat. Jews cannot eat pork on any day of the week and conversely, Jews can eat tuna or kosher meat on any day of the week.

All fish are kosher except for those that do not have both fins and scales, such as lampreys.

Whales and dolphins - which are of course mammals and not fish - are treif (not kosher); as are molluscs and crustaceans such as mussels, whelks, prawns and lobsters.

So yes, anchovies are a kosher species of fish.

First, for the purposes of this question, I am narrowing the analysis to Jews who keep kosher, e.g. follow the dietary laws, and also ignoring any personal allergies.

No. Octopus is explicitly prohibited as it is a sea creature without fins and scales.

That would depend on how they were made (the prawn flavor would have to be exclusively artificial), but even if they could be considered Kosher it is probably unlikely that a practicing Jew would be interested in eating them anyway.

First, for the purposes of this question, I am narrowing the analysis to Jews who keep kosher, e.g. follow the dietary laws, and also ignoring any personal allergies.

Being on a train has no effect on a what a Jew can or cannot eat. Jews eat the same food on trains that they do in their homes or restaurants (except they may opt for particular dishes that are easier to transport like sandwiches over stews).

If by "the trains" you are referring to the cattle cars used to transport Jews in miserable conditions to the Nazi Concentration Camps, Jews were not given food for the ride. They were "expected" to tough it out or die.

Tobiko comes from the flying fish, which is a kosher species. However, in order for the tobiko to be kosher, it must be certified by a recognised supervision organisation.

Uh, no. They're made with pork.

It is Rabbi David Moskowitz of Ashdod, a grandson of R Shulem zt"l, the Shatzer Rov of London. He spends much of his time in China, supervising the kashrus of food produced there.

On Passover, no leavened bread can be eaten. Many people have the custom not to eat legumes because their flour looks very similar or sometimes a little grain may get mixed into them.

It can be. There's nothing treif in the ingredients, so it's entirely a question of who made it, how carefully they inspected the greens for bugs before chopping them, and (this is the biggie) what else was fried in the oil and what else is the fryer used for. Often chicken or other meat is fried in the same oil as falafel, or at least in the same fryer.

I never heard of that.

Davis Dairy Products. They carry all kosher foods.

There is no such thing as "koshered food".

Kosher food is food that is acceptable for Jewish consumption because it follows the Torah and Rabinnic requirements for food preparation.

Koshered appliances are cooking implements that have been sufficiently cleaned so that they can prepare kosher food without contaminating the foods with non-kosher elements and thereby rendering the food treif (un-kosher).

Yes.

Jews do eat broccoli (provided that it is cultivated in a way that prevents the mixing of bugs in the crop). If a particular Jew does not eat broccoli, it is an issue of personal taste as opposed to religion.

Yes.

No.

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It is more correct to say that utensils transfer NON-kosher status. If a traif (forbidden; non-kosher) utensil is inserted in kosher food, soup or stew, it will affect the kosher status of the food. However, this is a complex area of Jewish law with hundreds of details; depending, for example, on the volume of the utensil, when it was last used, and the temperature of the food.

If a "meaty" utensil came in contact with dairy food, or vice-versa, a halakhic (Jewish law) question is also created, even if the food and utensil were hitherto kosher. The Torah does not permit mixing meat and dairy.

A utensil can be koshered by completely inserting it in boiling water. Utensils used at higher temperatures (spatulas, spits, etc.), are koshered with fire. They should be brought, by fire, to at least the temperature at which they are used.

Any side dish that is prepared in a kosher kitchen using only kosher ingredients would be kosher. Please note that kosher is a designation given to any food that is prepared following kashrut (Jewish dietary laws) and is not a style of food.

That depends on the type of buffet you want, Chinese, Italian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Thai, Japanese, BBQ, etc.

Kosher is a designation given to any food that is prepared following kashrut (Jewish dietary laws) and is not a style of cooking.

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