What is kosher food

The concept of kosher food came to us from the Jews. This people adheres to Kashrut in culinary and legal matters. In our article we will only focus on food and find out what kosher food is.

These laws defines the torus for more than 3,500 years and the same time the Jews strictly adhere to them. The very first thing from which the culinary kashrut begins is due to the fact that the dishes for receiving meat and dairy food should always be stored separately, even it is necessary to wash it in separate sinks or dishwashers. Meat can not be stored in the refrigerator where fish and dairy products are lying. Beer with Jews with eggs, fish, dairy products, vegetables. In the afternoon, to dinner, you can eat meat, desserts that are not containing protein and dairy products, vegetables, fruits. Now consider more detailed food.

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Meat and fish

• Meat - can be eaten by any animals, except for pork. Patient or killed during the hunting animal, fat, thigh is strictly prohibited. Watching the kosher and the origin of meat is a specially trained Reznik, he knows how to part right, remove fat and blood. Then he puts the seal on meat, which confirms the kosher. An interesting fact in meat kashrute is that McDonalds has changed the technology of manufacturing a burger kitlet specifically for the Jews. The meat is prepared not in a frying pan, but exclusively on coals.
• Poultry kosher, also attracts pigeons. Grilled or turkey and chicken hearts are considered kosher. Delicates in the form of insects, worms, frogs are categorically forbidden. But several types of locust are allowed.
• Fish is kosher in the presence of scales and fins. Prepare it on fire or in the oven. Maritime livery such as lobsters, crabs, eat food forbidden. Red caviar is considered kosher, and black - no.

2

Grass and fruit

• Any cereals: wheat, barley, oats, yeast products and alcoholic can be eating on any day, except for Easter holiday. During the days of Peso, these specific prohibitions are added to the usual kashrut.
• Before drinking fruits, which are subject to damage to worms, such as apples, pears, peaches, apricots, etc., they are carefully checked.

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Dairy products, bread

• Mix dairy products with meat can not. A break between meat intake and milk should be at least 6 hours, and between the milk and meat - 2 hours.
• The bread is considered kosher only, if it is prepared from kosher products.

4

Alcohol

Wine, made not a Jew - not kosher. Alcoholic beverages such as beer are considered kosher if they are prepared according to a specific technology.

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Traditional kosher snack

The traditional additive to Jewish dishes is hummous. This is a nut paste. It is eaten absolutely with any products from bread to salads.

During the preparation of kosher food in the restaurant or in its own kitchen, the Jews are sure to read prayer. The taste and appearance of kosher dishes and products do not differ from the usual.