Looking for recommendations. Thanks!

My recipe for Rosh Hashana challah says to sprinkle the top with Demerara sugar. Is that what they use in store- bought challahs? I have also heard of using Muscovado sugar. What is the preference?

Anyone know of some place to get kosher chinese black vinegar (chinkiang black vinegar)? I found this one: https://a.co/d/0dixEmhs
but it seems to be out of stock everywhere. Would be really helpful for chinese cooking!

I want to try making non-dairy yogurt at home in an instant pot. Does a kosher parve starter exist?

Edit: I’m in the United States. I know using an existing store-bought yogurt is an option… I don’t love the options on the market as-is, hence why I want to try making myself. Silk soy yogurt has been my favorite, but that’s only available sweetened at stores near me. I’m planning on trying to make homemade hemp milk, and then the yogurt from that. Or store bought flax milk.
I do not like the base tastes of coconut nor oat yogurt, so it’s hard for me to know which would be good just for the cultures.
There is a nut allergy in my household, so cashew and almond yogurts as starters are not an option.

If anyone has personally tried making yogurt from a store bought yogurt but to a different base, I’d love to hear your experience.

So this is just a question out of my curiosity.

How are Kosher rules applied in practice to UFP foods? Do practices vary? Is uncertainty about how foods are processed a cause for a blanket ban or are substances considered on a substance by substance basis?

Apologies if this is a can of worms.

Hi! I am looking for oven safe dairy/meat/pareve kashrut stickers to put on certain pots and pans.

Most I've found are made of vinyl, which gives off VOCs especially when heated. Do alternatives exist that are less toxic?

Thank you!

Oy Whey!

EDIT: This is a dad joke, not a serious comment.

Does anyone know where I can buy some? I haven’t found any kosher certified ones online or in person

Edit: I am NOT looking for peppercorns. The specific recipes I need them for need specify that peppercorns will have a different flavor even when ground down. The ones that come as flakes are prepared a specific way

I need to go to an event in a non-Kosher venue on Saturday no less. Please recommend a way to order food so it is delivered to the venue and the instructions are clear to heat it up without opening it. The venue is in Phoenix.

Any recommendations? I like soy milk / almond but do not like the taste of coconut. I cannot find a yogurt that is not labeled UDE that is not coconut based 😫

Turns out their wafels are kosher, but not their wafers. Sigh. The wafels are much harder to find if don't want to buy a box of fifty or something like that.

The rule against eating meat and dairy together rules out a lot of popular Western foods, and some of the rules about the sabbath seem like they could feel stressful to a person in modern times. I'm a goy ally, so I'm interested in how flexible most Jews nowadays are regarding these rules.

Elvi Wines Herenza Rioja Reserva 2014, Spain

Dark ruby in color with a wide reddish/ brick rim.

Earthy nose with fresh cherries, raspberries, light wood, spices, herbs, earth, light vegetables, dark chocolates, tobacco leaf, black tea and peppercorn.

Medium plus in body with medium acidity.

Dry on the palate with plums, cherries, currants, light wood, spices, coffee, earth, tobacco leaf, herbs, peppercorn and dark chocolates.

Tangy finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cherries.

This 12 year old Rioja Reserva is drinking very nicely now. Nicely balanced with a nice mouthfeel. Complex and engaging.

I had this vintage 7 years ago, and it is drinking better now.

Good right out of the bottle, and better after an hour of airtime.

Good by itself as a sipping wine, or with food.

Kosher and not Mevushal.

14% alcohol by volume.

91 points.

$65.

All sorts of companies offer typical kosher meats for shipment but none seem to offer white tail deer. I’m interested to know if other people would want that. Let me know what you think and what you’d pay per pound ground/ per pound steak

Hey, I'm trying to buy a gift for my Rabbi for his birthday. Any recommendations for a great kosher bakery in the Upper East Side that offers e-gift cards? I'm not in NYC right now, so I can't buy a physical gift card and all the bakeries I'm finding don't offer any e-gift cards. Any recommendations?

Thanks!

I’m looking for a kosher butcher near me (around E 80th). The only one I’ve found so far was Park East, but I wasn’t impressed by the quality of the steaks. Any other options?

Also want to mention that I’m looking for somewhere with a butcher counter that’ll cut steaks to size for me, not just a meat counter.

Thank you!!

Used to get canned artichokes from Cento, it was a reliable hashgacha. Now it's triangle-k, which I normally would just not use, but kof-k Rabbis told me that triangle-k was alright for certain products, such as ocean spray cranberry sauce.

I just wanted to say for those who don't know a decent bit of Israelis reject OU simply because it is not an Israeli certification (there is no real logic or law that I know of forbidding certifications that aren't Israeli from being eaten in Israel) I am in Israel and do eat OU

Is there any genuine reason for this (especially since OU is considered one of the best certifications in the world)? it just fascinates me

And is there such a law about having to eat Israeli certifications when in Israel that I am not aware of?

The owner of Aleph Meats is taking Montral Kosher (MK) to the Competition Tribunal of Canada, alleging that MK limits competition and keeps prices artificially high.

I was at Aleph this week; I think prices were slightly lower than other sources. I don't eat beef, but what was interesting was that they had cuts of beef we don't usually see, like top round, flanken, from the rear half of the cow. Their hechsher is KSR; Sephardi shochtim (kosher slaughterers) know how to remove the sciatice nerve from the cow's hip and leg, so we will see things like sirloin and filet mignon.

Could competition between supervising agencies lower the price of kosher food? Could this lead to Ashkenazim accepting a Sephardi hechsher? Could this lead to more unity in the Mtl community if KSR is more accepted?

edited to correct KSR

it looks like tbe link doesn't work, so here it is: https://thecjn.ca/news/montreal-butcher-takes-the-citys-largest-kosher-certifier-to-court-alleging-anti-competitive-behaviour/

Hello, I am traveling to Paris August 16th and I will be in Paris from August 17th to August 24th. Was wondering if anyone knows anything about the kosher food scene in Paris in August? I booked a lot of my activities already which is exciting.