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amother
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 Today at 10:42 am
| amother Broom wrote: | | My question is: you don't eat in restaurants? Buy takeout salads? Buy a panini with lettuce in it? These places aren't washing and checking their produce, each leaf by hand. They're relying on heterim. So why can't I in my own kitchen? |
Only if you are eating at unreliable restaurants. Any restaurant with a reliable hechsher has a mashgiach making sure that produce subject to infestation is checked according to guidelines. Ask in the kitchen before you eat. Restaurants have lost their hechsher for non compliance. Some kashrus agencies such as KCL will only allow restaurants to use bagged lettuce with a hechsher and wil not allow checking at all.
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nicole81
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Today at 10:49 am
| amother Broom wrote: | | My question is: you don't eat in restaurants? Buy takeout salads? Buy a panini with lettuce in it? These places aren't washing and checking their produce, each leaf by hand. They're relying on heterim. So why can't I in my own kitchen? |
Also I can tell you that in the UK at the moment, all kosher restaurants are required to use the pre checked lettuce in order to qualify for a hashgacha. So idk who's not checking...
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amother
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Today at 1:16 pm
This whole discussion is so depressing, as it is getting harder and harder to eat normal healthy food anymore.
I do eat at restaurants on rare occasions but I know that many hashgachas do rely on certain leniencies and heterime that I would rather not rely on so I often avoid the produce at these places. (I don't order salads or dishes with strawberries, fresh broccoli, etc). Same when eating at a catered affair.
Regarding Cauliflower, I had been checking it according to the CRC guidelines but the poster above who said her Rav said there is no way to check, is making me nervous...
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amother
Lemonchiffon
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Today at 1:24 pm
| amother Lemon wrote: | This whole discussion is so depressing, as it is getting harder and harder to eat normal healthy food anymore.
I do eat at restaurants on rare occasions but I know that many hashgachas do rely on certain leniencies and heterime that I would rather not rely on so I often avoid the produce at these places. (I don't order salads or dishes with strawberries, fresh broccoli, etc). Same when eating at a catered affair.
Regarding Cauliflower, I had been checking it according to the CRC guidelines but the poster above who said her Rav said there is no way to check, is making me nervous... |
Same. I feel like you have to be rich to eat vegetables unless you rely on those certain leniencies. I mean, you can eat more root vegetables and such, but those are nutritionally very different from the green leafy vegetables that are supposed to make up a significant amount of the food we eat.
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Bnei Berak 10
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Today at 1:31 pm
| amother Broom wrote: | | My question is: you don't eat in restaurants? Buy takeout salads? Buy a panini with lettuce in it? These places aren't washing and checking their produce, each leaf by hand. They're relying on heterim. So why can't I in my own kitchen? |
When you check large amounts like in a restaurant it's generally accepted to take a sample of the batch. If it's clean one can assume the whole batch is clean.
You cannot compare your kitchen to a commercial establishment. It's a vast differences in volume size everything.
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