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Published Fall 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most popular articles in Kashrus Kurrents<\/em>, dating back to my days in kollel<\/em>, was the article entitled, Preparing the Home for Pesach<\/em>,<\/span> written by Rav<\/em> Heinemann shlita, <\/em>Rabbinic Administrator of Star-K.\u00a0 It appeared in one of the Kashrus Kurrents<\/em> earliest Pesach<\/em> editions.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the Kashrus Kurrents Pesach <\/em>edition evolved into the Star-K Passover Guide<\/span>, replete with a wealth of practical information for Pesach<\/em> in particular, as well as the laws of kashrus<\/em> in general.\u00a0 Some 33 years later, the lead-off article in our Passover Guide is still Preparing the Home for Pesach<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 The title, however, is not altogether accurate.\u00a0 It is true that it includes the halachos<\/em> of kashering<\/em> \u00a0the home for Pesach<\/em>, however, this article also provides the reader with a more general and more clear understanding of kasherization<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As new technologies and novelties are introduced to the consumer, a clear halachic<\/em> understanding of each innovation is needed in order to keep a balabusta<\/em>\u2019s dream from turning into a halachic<\/em> nightmare. New innovations do not come without problems.\u00a0 Ovens with 12 hour shut off, refrigerators with Frostguard, warming drawers, Corian countertops, double drawer dishwashers, and refrigerators converting into ovens are some of the issues that can be resolved; others are just \u2026problematic.<\/p>\n

One of the earliest innovations that is well over 25 years old is the introduction of the glass cooktop.\u00a0 The smooth glass cooktop is much sleeker than the conventional\u00a0 porcelain cooktop.\u00a0 In a glasstop cooktop, the electric burners are located under the glass.\u00a0 When the burners are turned on, the glass glows to a beautiful orange hue.\u00a0\u00a0 This heat treated glass ceramic can sustain extreme changes in temperatures up to 1000o F.\u00a0 Of course, this new sleek and attractive cooktop was a \u2018Must-Buy\u2019 for the Yiddishe<\/em> balabusta<\/em>, whose kitchen is the main room in the house.\u00a0 \u00a0The obvious Pesach kashering<\/em> questions facing the ballabusta<\/em> were: \u00a0\u00a0Do you have to kasher<\/em> glass?\u00a0 Can you kasher<\/em> a glass cooktop?\u00a0 How would you go about it?\u00a0 Well the answer to the first question is yes.\u00a0 Since there can be absorption into the glasstop from cooking spills, the entire cooktop needs to be kashered<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0How do you kasher<\/em> the cooktop?\u00a0 Years ago, when the question was posed to me, I told the consumer to simply put a blech<\/em> over all of the burners and let the heat radiate over the entire surface.\u00a0 \u00a0Bad move \u2013 the cooktop shattered!\u00a0 We now had firsthand evidence that you do not cover glass cooktops<\/span><\/strong> Luckily, the oven was new and the company replaced the cooktop.\u00a0 Suffice it to say, the cooktop was now kosher for Passover.<\/p>\n

Consequently, we have been instructing consumers that the only way to kasher<\/em> a glass cooktop outside the burner area is with a blowtorch.\u00a0 However, blowtorching can be extremely dangerous and risky. Even though ceramic glass is supposed to withstand temperatures far beyond what it would take to heat the glass (hot enough to singe a tissue), manufacturers warn consumers that the cooktop could still crack if heated.\u00a0 For this reason, when consumers inquire we discourage them from kashering<\/em> a glass cooktop.1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Many consumers have questioned the Star-K \u2018s policy and ask:\u00a0 Isn\u2019t glass supposed to be resistant to absorption?\u00a0 Indeed, glass is one of Hashem<\/em>\u2019s great wonders.\u00a0 What is glass? \u00a0The term \u2018glass\u2019 comes from the Latin term glesum<\/em>, which means a lustrous and transparent substance.\u00a0 The basic ingredient of this amazing creation is sand, silica.\u00a0 Other substances such as limestone are added to the silica, which is heated to temperatures exceeding 2100o F, and forms the clear resilient material called glass.\u00a0 The glass is then toughened through annealing. \u00a0A variety of substances can be added to produce numerous glass compositions from delicate crystal to bulletproof glass.<\/p>\n

When the Shulchan Aruch<\/em> speaks about glass, the Mechaber<\/em> 2<\/sup><\/a>states that glass is not absorbent.\u00a0 \u00a0The Mishna B\u2019rura<\/em> explains why glass doesn\u2019t absorb \u2013 \u201cL\u2019fi shechalakim ukashim heim<\/em>\u201d,3<\/sup><\/a> because glass is a material that is \u201csmooth and hard\u201d, making it impervious to absorption.\u00a0 The Rema<\/em>4<\/sup><\/a> argues and says that since the base material of glass is sand, it shares the same properties of \u2018klei cheres<\/em>\u2019, earthenware, which is extremely absorbent.\u00a0 Due to its high absorption properties and fragile\u00a0 composition, earthenware cannot be kashered<\/em>; hence, according to the Rema, <\/em>glass would have no kashering<\/em> recourse.5<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The Rema<\/em> concludes that if glass is used with cold or ambient liquids, the glass would not be absorbent; if it would be used with \u2018chamin\u2019,<\/em> hot liquids, the glass utensil \u00a0should be treated like earthenware.<\/p>\n

What is the \u2018chamin\u2019<\/em> criteria? \u00a0According to Horav<\/em> Moshe Heinemann, shlit\u201da<\/em>, \u00a0if the glass utensil was used in the oven or on the cooktop, i.e., directly on the fire, that glass utensil is considered a \u2018kli rishon<\/em>\u2019.6<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 An example of this is a Pyrex casserole dish that was heated in the oven or a Corning Visions glass pot heated on a burner , where the food blios<\/em> (absorption) would be absorbed into the walls of the glass utensil.\u00a0 However, hot soup poured into a Duralex soup bowl, a \u2018kli sheini\u2019<\/em>,7<\/sup><\/a> would not fulfill the \u2018chamin<\/em>\u2019 criteria, and the glass would not absorb the hot liquid.<\/p>\n

How does the halacha<\/em> view a ceramic glass cooktop? \u00a0Since the burners are directly under the glass and heat the cooktop, as well as the utensil on top of the cooktop, the entire cooktop is considered to be a \u2018kli rishon<\/em>\u2019.\u00a0 Any hot spillage from a pot or frying pan onto the cooktop, be it on the burner area or beyond, would be considered cooked into the cooktop, which is a glass kli rishon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As stated in the Preparing the House for Pesach<\/em><\/span> article, there are various methods of kasherization<\/em>.\u00a0 One method is known as hagola<\/em>, purging with hot water; the other is libbun<\/em>, incinerating with fire.\u00a0 Hagola<\/em> is ineffective for \u2018kli cheres<\/em>\u2019, earthenware, because it does not expel the blios<\/em> that have been absorbed into the walls of the earthenware utensil.8<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The halacha<\/em> also discourages kashering<\/em> with libbun<\/em> because the intense heat of libbun <\/em>risks the life of the earthenware vessel, which may shatter.9<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Logically, if you don\u2019t run that risk you could use libbun<\/em>.\u00a0 Technically, a glass cooktop should be able to withstand libbun<\/em> temperatures, even though customer service says that it may crack.<\/p>\n

With the advent of induction cooking, however, one is afforded an alternative method of kasherizatio<\/em>n.\u00a0 What is induction cooking?\u00a0 Induction cooking is a revolutionary energy efficient way of cooking without heat.\u00a0 How do you cook without heat? \u00a0The answer is with electro-magnetic energy.\u00a0 The conventional burner is replaced with a coil of tightly wound copper wire under the glass cooktop.\u00a0 Turning on the \u201cburner\u201d sends electro-magnetic energy through the coil.\u00a0 If you placed your hand on the coil area, you would feel nothing.\u00a0 If you placed an aluminum pan on the same area you would still feel nothing.\u00a0 However, by placing an iron skillet or a pot with an iron core or magnetized stainless steel on the cooktop, the magnetized skillet completes the magnetic connection and the electro-magnetic field of energy transfers directly into the pan.\u00a0 This causes the iron molecules to move very rapidly, giving off heat.\u00a0 In turn, the cookware cooks the food.\u00a0 Lifting the pan off of the cooktop breaks the magnetic connection, and you will no longer be cooking.\u00a0 The cooktop will be heated by the \u201cmagnetic\u201d pot or pan, but it does not get hot from the coil.\u00a0 Consequently, any spill onto the ceramic cooktop surface will be a result of an irui kli rishon<\/em>, spillage from a hot pot, not a heated cooktop as you would have in conventional cooking.\u00a0 Hence, if one would want to kasher<\/em> the cooktop, it could be accomplished by a lesser means of kasherization<\/em>, irui kli rishon<\/em>.10<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Although induction cooking offers a koshering benefit, the cooktop cannot be used on Shabbos<\/em> or Yom Yov<\/em> because the cooking connection is made once the pot is put onto the coil area.\u00a0 Similarly, one would not be able to remove the pot from the cooktop on Shabbos<\/em> or Yom Tov<\/em> because one would be \u201cdisconnecting\u201d the magnetic field by removing the pot.\u00a0 While the ability to kasher<\/em> an induction cooktop is an advantage, the disadvantage of not being able to use it on Shabbos<\/em> or Yom Tov<\/em> makes this cooktop impractical, unless one has more than one cooktop in the kitchen (an induction for during the week, and a non-induction for Shabbos <\/em>and Yom Tov<\/em>).
\nAs with every new advent of technology, one balabusta<\/em>\u2019s dream is another balabusta<\/em>\u2019s nightmare.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/a>For those households that own glasstop ovens, the Star-K recommends that the burner areas be kashered<\/em> and trivet should be placed on the non-kashered<\/em> area so that pots or cooking utensils will not be placed directly on the oven.<\/div>\n
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2.<\/a>Orach Chaim<\/em> 451:26<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3.<\/a>O.C.<\/em> 451:, Mishna Brura<\/em> 153<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4.<\/a>O.C.<\/em> 451:26, Rema<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5.<\/a> Ibid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6.<\/a>O.C.<\/em> 451:5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7.<\/a>Ibid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8.<\/a>O.C.<\/em> 451:22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9.<\/a>Ibid. M.B.<\/em> 135<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10.<\/a>O.C.<\/em> 451:5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published Fall 2011<\/p>\n

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