What is Kosher?
What are the three general categories of foods when cooking and eating Kosher?
1) Milk (Dairy)
2) Meat
3) Pareve
What is the Kosher law for milk and meat?
Milk and meat can never be eaten together.
What are the signs of a Kosher animal?
1) Chews its cud (digests food 6 times)
2) has split hooves
I want to bake brownies for snack.
What should I look out for when I'm shopping for ingredients in the store?
I should check to make sure that every ingredient that I'm buying has a kosher symbol.
Give one example for each of the three categories of foods.
Meat: Chicken, steak, beef etc.
Dairy: Milk, cheese, yogurt etc.
Pareve: eggs, bread, fruits, vegetables etc.
What is the name for all foods that are not milk or meat?
These foods are called PAREVE.
What are the signs of a kosher fish?
1) has fins
2) has scales
What should I look out for when cooking with lettuce?
Check the lettuce to make sure there are no bugs.
What are examples of foods that are always kosher no matter what?
Foods in their natural form
Whole fruits
Whole vegetables
Water
raw beans, sugar etc.
I ate chicken nuggets for dinner and now I want to drink a milkshake. How many hours should I wait in between the meat and milk?
6 hours.
What are the signs of a kosher bird?
There are no signs!
The Torah lists all the birds that are NOT kosher, so anything not listed in the Torah is automatically kosher.
What should I look out for when cooking with eggs?
Check the egg yolk to make sure there an blood spots.
What does the word kosher mean?
The word Kosher means "fit, ready to eat"
Kosher food is food that is proper and ready for a Jew to eat.
I drank a milkshake and now I want to eat chicken nuggets. How many hours should I wait between milk and meat?
1 hour.
How do kosher symbols get to be on packages of food?
(example: an OK kosher symbol on a chocolate bar)
A Rabbi (mashgiach) that works for a kosher company comes and inspects the factory where the food is made to make sure all the ingredients are kosher and the machines only handle kosher ingredients. Then he allows the factory to put the kosher symbol on the package.
What is the best way to make sure you don't mix milk and meat when cooking in your kitchen?
Having two sets of dishes: one for meat and one for dairy.
Also, having one side of the kitchen be the meat side and the other side of the kitchen be the dairy side.