Comment Re:Just not the same. (Score 1) 201
Sorry maybe "blessed" was too strong a word, but I thought that a Rabbi MUST be present when the animal is slaughtered via cutting through the esophagus and trachea with a very sharp knife (to avoid tearing the flesh in anyway). It is my understanding that it is forbidden to eat torn/stripped flesh from any source.
Also I thought it was necessary for a Rabbi to be present at Kosher stores and restaurants to receive the Kosher goods in shipments, else they wouldnt be Kosher anymore...and also probably to check and make sure that the meats and the cheeses weren't hanging around together.
My father just got done constructing a second kitchen for a Jewish man who is VERY strict. He actually has a dairy kitchen and a meat kitchen, each complete with everything so that his dairy kitchen items don't ever see anything that has ever been in or around his meat kitchen (except himself of course). Ah the joy of cooking to have two kitchens... :)
Also I thought it was necessary for a Rabbi to be present at Kosher stores and restaurants to receive the Kosher goods in shipments, else they wouldnt be Kosher anymore...and also probably to check and make sure that the meats and the cheeses weren't hanging around together.
My father just got done constructing a second kitchen for a Jewish man who is VERY strict. He actually has a dairy kitchen and a meat kitchen, each complete with everything so that his dairy kitchen items don't ever see anything that has ever been in or around his meat kitchen (except himself of course). Ah the joy of cooking to have two kitchens...
