Friday, 9 March 2018

How To Ensure Your Kosher Meals Meet The Requirements

By Carolyn Rogers


If you operate a restaurant, you need to come up with ways of increasing sales. While you sell food because you love it and want to share that goodness with others, you need to ensure you are not operating at a loss. Consider the community you are serving and ask yourself what kind of dishes will satisfy them. There could be enough people in the community need kosher meals.

These meals are like any other meal you have ever prepared in the sense that you need to cook them and serve them. However, there are certain aspects relating to sourcing of food items you will need to understand. The word Kosher has its origin in one of the traditions in the Middle East. It means pure. It also means fit for consumption.

If the community you serve is demanding these foods, offer them. Ensure you fully understand all the requirements that need to be met before the items can be kosher compliant. You have the job of assuring the community that the dishes you will be selling have been procured after the observance of the applicable religious laws. Some items are forbidden and others that are not, you must distinguish between the two.

If you are serving meat as one of the delicacies, you ought to comply with certain rules. Fundamentally, you want to understand what the law of the Torah says explicitly concerning permitted types of meat. According to this law, meat from animals having cloven hooves and which chew cud is considered to be permitted. This means you can serve meat from cows, bulls, goats, sheep, and springbok.

Any animal that meets one condition and fails to meet the other is not pure. An animal that chews the cud and has hooves that are not split should not be eaten. A camel is a good example. Also, a creature with cloven hooves but does not belong to the class of creatures that chew the cud, such as a pig, should not be slaughtered.

Not every person who knows how to perform the slaughtering exercise can kill the animals that provide compliant products. The slaughtering procedure involves some rituals, and only a specialist who understands the process can perform the act. The Torah is against the careless killing of animals. When slaughtering, no unnecessary pain should ever be inflicted.

After slaughtering, the kosher specialist and his helpers handle the meat by removing unwanted fats and veins. After this process, the carcass remains soaked in water at room temperature for thirty minutes. To get all the blood out of the meat, it is coarse-salted for one hour on special salting tables.

When it comes to birds, not all of them can be eaten. Among birds you cannot prepare a meal from are the swan, eagle, owl, pelican, stork, and the vulture. The eggs from these animals are not permitted as well, nor are their young ones. You can only get your supplies from permitted bird species such as goose, chicken, turkey, and the duck.




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