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| Kosher technicalities: how many sets of kitchen utensils do you have? | |
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| rikal | Apr 18 2009, 03:19 PM Post #16 |
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I have 2 regular and 1 Pesach. Many in Lubavitch do not eat dairy except for small kids and I have none. I have 1 milkic Pesach bottle and 2 milkic coffee cups for visiting family. I have a huge parve pot for batch cooking or making soup for soldiers because I have no idea what pot they will bring to put it in.. Then you can store in that or in separate plastic containers. I also have the type of family where parve type things (lukshen, boiled eggs, etc) does not often last too long. I have a house full of boys. I am more likely to batch cook for Pesach which is all fleishic. |
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| zuncompany | Apr 18 2009, 09:04 PM Post #17 |
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Oh, got it. I do have a milchik set in storage that has not been used since Zu was born and was reacting to dairy through bm. I also have a full meat set for pesach. I do not serve dairy on pesach so there is no need. |
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| Estie | Apr 18 2009, 09:58 PM Post #18 |
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aishes chayil
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I see that you didn't only want to know about pots I have a ridiculous amount of dishes and I use just about all of them weekday - set of 8 dishes, set of 12 cutlery for each milk and meat shabbos - meat: 3 sets of china - 2 service for 12's that have 10 left and a service for 16, and 2 more service for 12 cutlery, but some are missing milk: one service for 12 china and a service for 16 cutlery that I also sometimes pilfer for everyday pesach: meat: service for 16 china, service for 24 flatware (missing a few) milk: 2 each unmatching service for 8 china and flatware, but I used them both and too bad we do eat dairy even on yom tov so on Pesach for friday lunch we had dairy and used both sets, unfortunately the table didn't look as good as I would like. |
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| bnm | Apr 19 2009, 12:01 AM Post #19 |
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I have 2 sets of Correle, 3 sets of utensils (milk, meat, pesach) have 2 sets of pots and starting to collect for pesach. food procesor and blender and hand mixer are parve. microwave and oven are meat and when I figure out where to store it I'm going to get a toaster oven for milk. |
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| LittleL | Apr 19 2009, 12:51 AM Post #20 |
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Wow, I'm amazed about lyour replies and all good ideas! :hugs I sure have some thinking left to do. :ha Thank you all! |
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| zuncompany | Apr 19 2009, 01:07 AM Post #21 |
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One thing to remember is it takes time :) I know when I went kosher in college I bought things slowly. I started with plastic plates and utensils, a rice maker (made great soups, pastas, rice, etc...), a hot plate, and a crock pot (slow cooker). When I moved into my first apartment I got a cheap set of pots/pans and cheap ikea dishes. I slowly added things like a george forman, and other fun tools. Than when I got married I went all out and registered for everything I could think of. No way could I have the amount of stuff in my kitchen I have otherwise- it would have taken many years told built it up. I thought ahead when registering and put down stuff I wanted for pesach. I got a few things and since than each year we make one real purchase for my pesach kitchen. |
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| lilac7 | Apr 19 2009, 06:53 AM Post #22 |
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how do you store so many things and so many sets of dishes in the kitchen? the thing is - it's at least 3 times more what most people have |
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| Marion | Apr 19 2009, 07:00 AM Post #23 |
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The Pesach stuff I leave in the storeroom except on Pesach. The rest, well, when we bought I put in a lot of cupboards. And I have all my cake stuff in a closet in the laundry room...no room for it in the kitchen. |
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| shalhevet | Apr 19 2009, 07:58 AM Post #24 |
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I have plates, dishes, glasses, cutlery etc for both milk and meat. For meat I have four pans of various sizes and a chopping board, and one pan and one frying pan for milk. I have one mixing bowl for each. Otherwise all my cooking equipment, baking stuff, food processor, pans, mixing bowls, sieves etc are parve. I also have two or three forks, spoons, chopping boards, sharp knives, large mixing spoons, etc etc - all parve. I make everything parve in a parve pot, and only use the meat/ milk pots if I'm cooking dishes that actually contain meat or milk. So I cook parev soup, pasta, rice, vegetables etc in parve pots. I have three ladles (one for each). |
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| chavamom | Apr 19 2009, 11:29 PM Post #25 |
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Bala Buste
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Two sets of pots/dishes and then all my baking stuff is parve. |
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| Reverse Karma | Apr 20 2009, 09:08 AM Post #26 |
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I'm older than most of our members plus I have a dishwasher so I suppose my situation is different than most. I started off with a set of pots for fleishig but added as the years went on; I needed some bigger and some smaller. I also have China and again, added the pieces I used the most. I use glas plates for everyday and also have two sets of silverware, for evgeryday and Shabbos. Our Tupperware is all pareve. For dairy, I have several sized frying pans but that's it. I keep some things pareve; like a noodle pot (the kind with the holes in the lid for pouring) and a steamer (that I use for vegs and gef fish). For Pesach, I hve dishes - again, just the pieces that I need, and 2 sets of silverware, everyday and Shabbos. Set of pots but with some additions. The only dairy I have is frying pans and spatulas. |
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| JRKmommy | Apr 20 2009, 09:50 AM Post #27 |
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Re kitchen space: Our first apt. had a tiny galley kitchen with very little storage space. We were going through a vegetarian phase at the time, so we simply made it all dairy. We only ate meat at shul or at our parents' homes (and saying "we're vegetarian" felt better than "we're too poor to afford meat" when we were starving students). When we moved into our current place, we were looking for a big kitchen with LOTS of storage space. Since we gutted the old kitchen, I got to choose the new kitchen design. I didn't care about wine racks, decorative stains, moldings, etc. We just maximized storage space. You may find that you don't need to duplicate everything, because you don't cook meat and milk the same way. For example - my roasting pans are only meat. I just have a pizza pan for milk. Rikal: Do you mean that Lubavitchers don't eat dairy on Pesach? Why not? |
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| lilac7 | Apr 20 2009, 09:52 AM Post #28 |
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what about dishwasher? can you wash parve and meat in the same dishwasher or if it's a meat dishwasher - it can only have meat dishes in it |
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| JRKmommy | Apr 20 2009, 09:58 AM Post #29 |
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Different rabbis will give different answers about dishwashers. We have stainless steel interiors. I was told that we could kasher the dishwasher by letting it sit for 24 hours, washing the racks well in the bathtub, and then running it empty through the hottest cycle possible. I wouldn't do this constantly to switch between milk and meat, but it is good to know that if a mistake is made, it is at least possible to re-kosher the dishwasher. I put in a second dishwasher when we redid the kitchen, but before that we used it just for meat. Most dairy stuff is really simple to wash by hand anyway. |
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| lilac7 | Apr 20 2009, 10:02 AM Post #30 |
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JRKMommy - what about parve dishes? |
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