Hisachdus Harabonim Di’Lakewood- PESACH 5784/ by y. shain-RECOMMENDED LIST - Must say kosher for Passover. In general, OU-P” grocery items with no heimish hashgocha on package is usually a preferred pesach product, as OU Mashgichim are trained & experienced.
ALUMINUM FOIL- All year Hashgocha-Any
Baby formula- MATERNA / Israel (w/ separate keilim) -J&J, Ross, similac LeMehadrin 1,2,3, Sunrise
Baking powder-Mishpacha, Bakers Choice, Gefen, Any OU-P
Borsht- Gefen-Mishpacha,Any OU-P
Cake Cookies- oberlander, Reismans Schick, Elegant, lilly’s, Chantilly, Bake master-not raspberry jam.
Canned vegetables-Shop-rite Any OU-P, mishpacha, gefen
CANDIES- Bdatz Yerusalem, Rabbi Illowitz-Brazil, Any OU-P
CHEESE, CREAM, BUTTER- J &; J, Mehadrin, Haolam, Norman’s, Givat
Chocolates,etc Chocolate chips-Mishpacha, Bakers Choice, carmit, Any OU-P, Seton- OU Parve are made on dedicated lines, not kashered from dairy.
COCOA Powder- Hersheys OU not special dark, cocoa mix-Mishpacha –Any OU-P
COFFEE INSTANT- Nescafe W/P, Tasters choice regular, Geffen also decaf, any OU-P. Folgers decaffeinated, regular, no OU-P required.
COFFEE WHITENER- Eden- Any OU-P
CONFECTIONARY SUGAR- Mishpacha, Gefen , any OU-P
CRANBERRY JUICE COCKTAIL & sauce-Mishpacha, Gefen, Kedem-Any OU-P
CROCK POT LINERS- Geula, Fantastic, Reynolds-Any OU-P
FISH- King of the Sea, Melech Yam, Dagim Meal Mart, Fishy Neiman, Freund’s.
FLAVOR EXTRACT- Bakers Choice, Gefen
FRENCH FRIES- Eden-Any OU-P
FROZEN VEGETABLES- Brocolli, Spinach, Cauliflower- Positive / kosher garden, Beleaves w/Eidah
Dag Yam- see salmon
Dried fruit-w/OU P, yumzee, manishtana, joseph Xavier, setton, no raisins or figs even W/ Hashgocha, use Craisins-OU P.
Frozen strawberries, blueberries- only peeled Kosher Garden. no others even w/ hashgocha
FRUIT CANNED-Mishpacha, Gefen, Any OU-P
Garlic fresh must be peeled &; rinsed-Frozen- Gefen, Any OU-P
GRAPE JUICE- Mishpacha, Gefen, Kedem, Schwartz, Hadar
GROCERY ITEMS- Mishpacha,Masbia, Hadar, Meal Mart, , Gefen, Any OU-P
Gold’s products with OU-P-
HONEY- Mishpacha, Broad, Gefen, - Any OU-P
Horse Radish- Flaum, Tuv Taam, Any OU-P
Hotel for Pesach- ?????NONE! Openheimer's is acceptable.
ICE CREAM- Mehadrin, J&J, Kleins, not with strawberries, blueberries or raspberries
JUICE - Golden Flow, Mishpacha, New Square, Lakewood farms, Nature’s own (if made in Bayonne, NJ) Kedem
All Orange Juice- MUST BE FILTERED w/ 100 mesh PRIOR TO USE-including Dvash, golden flow, new square, Lakewood farms, fresh n healthy, Tropicana, etc
KETCHUP- Mishpacha, gefen, - Any OU-P
KOSHER GARDEN- PRE-CHECKED VEGIES & Herbs, spinach, romaine, brocolli
KUGELS- Meal Mart, W/OU-P
LEBEN, YOGURT- Mehadrin, J&J, Norman’s. Givat strawberry &; blueberry is from liquid-NO GEVINA BRAND
Lemon juice- Real lemon &; Lime OU no P required
LIQUOR-Slivovitz, Tam Pree, Carmel, All OU-P
MATZOS-HAND, including spelt, oat- only Pupa-Tzeleim-prefered, East Kenedy/Bobov,Yad Binyomin, komemious-hand matzah only, beit shemesh w/ skver
MACHINE MATZOS- Beit Shemesh only w/ she’aris Hashgocha.
MACAROONS- Oberlanders, Gefen & OU=-P
MARGARINE-Eden, J&J, Mehadrin, Mothers, Haolam ,
Marshmallows-Elyon, Gefen, Golden Fluff
MAYONAISE- Mishpacha, Gefen,, Any OU-P
MEAT- Fishels, Solomons, Birdsboro at Bingo. Alle. N. American only, Tevas-Rav Miller, Continental (Canada), Foodex, Evergreen,
NO- Tevya's, Agri Star, Aarons, KJ/KY beef.
Bais Yosef Beef- Fishels, Solomon's, Birdsboro BY @ Bingo, not SBD, Meyuchad, or KJ brands.
MILK-Golden Flow, Pride of the farm (all milked before pesach), New Square, Bethel, Wayside Goal milk products.
NUTS-Bakers choice, No Klein’s, Any OU-P, Costco w/ OU-P, all unshelled nuts-no BTH, Nuts Galore, pecans-OU-P
OIL-Cotton-seed, Roberts, Pereg, Manischewitz, Mishpacha, Masbia, Hadar, , Gefen, Nut-Ola-Any OU-P
OIL-HAZELNUT / WALNUT- Taamon w/ aidah, Gefen, lieber- check dates-over a year may be rancid
OLIVE OIL-GEFEN Pesach-(made a production with hahgocha from press through bottling) Aida
Oil-Grapeseed-Laufers, Liebers or OU-P, Avocado- OU-P
Note: OU on olive oil is not acceptable
PARCHMENT PAPER-Geula, Any OU-P or star-k p
POULTRY- Pella, Mesorah, Skver, Kiryas Joel, David Elliot.
PICKLES- Flaum, Tuv Taam- Any OU-P
Positive/Kosher Garden or Blossom only with CRC/ Hisachdus- pre-checked vegies &; herbs, spinach, romaine, broccoli, etc.
POTATO CHIPS, STICKS- Blooms NOT Bloomy’s, Schwartz, Liebers, Golden fluff
POTATO STARCH- Mishpacha, E&S, Gefen, Any OU-P
POTATOES-INSTANT/MASHED- Mishpacha, dependable, Any OU-P
PRALINE PASTE- Bakers choice-Any OU-P
*Quinoa-None for ashkenazim- Aida & R’ Shlomo Miller says it’s Kitnious
Raisins-blueberries-none -due to infestation.
*RICE-For sfardim that use rice- LUNDBERGS
ROASTING BAGS- Geula, Reynolds
ROMAINE LETTUCE- positive, Kosher Garden or Blossom only w/ CRC/ Hisachdus- All others require washing &expert checking
Romaine whole heads only with Rav Vaye, No Romaine Hearts from Andy Boy, Costco, Heimish, Israeli even with hashgochas
Spices- Pereg , Mishpacha, Masbia, R&;L, Hadar, . ALSO OU-P
Sardines-Melech yam, Dagim from morocco
Salmon- canned "None” unless farmed.
SUGAR-White granulated USA W/ Pesach /Domino, Any OU-P
SALT non-iodized-W/ Pesach-all OU-P
SELTZER-UNFLAVORED-with pesach hashgacha-Any OU-P
SELTZER FLAVORED-Any OU-P, Vintage all flavors “P”
SOAP PADS- Mishpacha, Geulah, Gefen, Rokeach, Any OU-P
SODA- American dry, Be’er Mayim, Caffeine free Coca Cola, Classic Cola, Mayim Chaim, Mae Tovim, Pepsi W Bdatz, Seagrams, Sprite W/ PESACH - Any OU-P- NOT DIET
Strawberries- Kosher Garden peeled-Frozen- NO other brands, Fresh, cut off to, peel the entire berry.
Sushi- All Nori sheets are infested w/ copepods. Do not use any.
TEA INSTANT-, Wisotzky, Nestea, LIPTON-Any OU-P
TEA BAGS-Lipton, Pathmark, Shoprite, wisotzky, Gefen-Any OU-P
TOMATO PRODUCTS-Mishpacha, Gefen- any OU-P
TOOTHPASTE Personal items- Zohar, Adwe, Orbitul, Any OU-P
TOPPING-Eden, Mishpacha-VANILA SUGAR-Mishpacha, Bakers Choice, Gefen- any OU-P
Tuna- Shop-Rite Any OU-P,Dagim, Mishpacha, King of the sea, Melech Yam, Season, Star-Kist OU-P
VEGETABLES CANNED- Mishpacha, Gefen-Any OU-P
Vinegar Balsamic- KEDEM Not Bartenura-
VINEGAR- Mishpacha, Kedem any OU-P
Water- much available w/ OU-P
WINE-Carmel, Rav Rubin, NYS Kedem w/ Tzelem, zegbach, Eidah, Schwartz’s, Armon. Kedasia, Wagshall, Skver.
SOUR DOUGH CAN'T BE SOLD FOR PESACH, must be burned - See Arugas Haboisem #112.
Note: Any OU-P- and Parve are acceptable.
Lakewood area stores- Bingo Beef/poultry Dept carries only BirdsBoro/Mesorah product. Alert: in the Bingo display cases, they have other brands as well.
The Bingo confectionary re-packs, we are not comfortable with Hashgocha reliability of the repackaging. Be careful of possible infestation.
Some of their meat has some hashgochas that may be questionable.
Re: Pesach Hotels- For the educated kosher consumer that is concerned about kashrus standards and hotel atmosphere- we cannot recommend any of the Pesach hotels.
*Sefardim- Gluten free cakes must be Bishul Yisroel BY-check with bakery if it is.
Shabbos Friendly appliances certified by Star-K are not recommended.
GE Refrigerator with OU Shabbos keeper is recommended for Shabbos.
Clothing must be checked for Shatnez. Testers must be certified by the International Association of Shatnez testers, otherwise must be re-tested. The others are constantly certifying Shatnez clothing as Shatnez-free R"L.
Alert: fruits and vegetables from Israel, Tithes and Maaser, etc. must be taken.
Not all sea-salt has a halachic status of מבושל.
Dr Pepper is not recommended all year, kashrus concerns.
ALERT: BINGO HAS "KCL" HAND MATZOS, THAT WERE NOT MADE BY HAND.
Prepared by Y. Shain- kashrusy@aol.com
56 comments:
What is wrong with KJ/KY beef? Please elaborate.
It's processed at Agri.
Hebrew National does not take any trimmings from Agri because IT DOESN'T MEET HEBREW NATIONAL KASHRUS STANDARDS.
BUT IT MEETS KCL STANDARDS, KCL GETS BAK'SHISH FROM AGRI
The real question is, what took CHK so long to leave?
KAJ left a long time ago.
Fyi,
The Mishpacha and Bake Masters brands have been discontinued already for 2 years.
The rav Hamachshir of the Mishpacha brand now certifies the Haddar brand.
Thank you Reb Yudel for the list.
Q. Does kosher Garden peeled frozen strawberries need kosher for Passover on it or is it good with just plain OU?
A batch this winter of Birdsboro salami was spoiled long before the expiration date and Bingo are shverreh baalei davar on returns.
KJ only does gassos at Agri? Where does KJ shecht & process poultry?
What's that?
https://www.foodexsupermarket.com/categories/78259/products?filters=%7B%22brand%22:%5B21949%5D%7D
Foodex is selling Rosenblatt. That's still under cRc Chicago?
I'm confused about Bingo meat. Isn't it all Solomons?
What happened to Birdsboro meat? It's not good anymore?
Remember this con artist?
https://www.dansdeals.com/advertisement/last-50-rooms-36-hour-blowout-pesach-sale/
Look what he pulled at the last minute before bailing on all the fressers last Pesach
He now forwards you from the Pesach program website to his personal website where he warns you of all kinds of oinshim for saying lashon horah about him. How convenient!
Bingo has Birdsboro Meat and Mesorah poultry.
Someone in the greater Lakewood area who rents his vacation home for Pesach is a NIGHTMARE landlord.
After the whole house is kashered & stocked with essen he starts terrorizing you with creatively imaginative taynos that you are being mafsid him. It's a shakedown scam that he knows is effective because he knows you are terrified that he could lock you out without a place to stay or even your food. He even admits he changes some terms of the upmach after you take possession which he is 'matzdik' (without a leg to stand on). The menuvol has cameras INSIDE the house that he can be arrested for. When you first catch on he is in denial. Someone had to have a security company do a sweep last year. He was watching a mishpocho's every move & listening to conversations which he followed up with more harassing phone calls & texts based on his illegal, menuvoldik surveillance. He even commented when they were eating on the outside deck. He is a megalomaniac who contacts you at all hours. He holds you hostage on the phone to give you the 5th degree for HOURS per day. He didn't pay to clean his septic tank line so the inside of the house started flooding during Chol Hamoed every time the showers or sinks were used. He refused to send a plumber. The victim tenants had to hire their own plumber to evaluate. They had to leave early after what the plumber warned could come next. It already stank from the water backup stagnating. The creep was even overriding the thermostat through his phone app to lower the temperature set by the tenants on cold nights. The fraudster loves to falsely darshan to you over & over that he's such a baal chesed by nature to everyone!
Is it good? Under "meat" Birdsboro is not listed.
Absolutely a lie. If you have legit complaints they are the easiest place to return things.
But there is a advertised return policy which one must adhere to.
Can someone explain to me why Dagim White Albacore tuna looks and tastes like the dark tuna?
Birdsboro meat is excellent for Pesach and the entire year from a kashrus point.
The published return policy that is publicly posted at the Bingo customer service counter is not reasonable. Is 6:24 pm alleging that they are more meykil than the published policy?
The Stefanskys were not happy when the NY Times reported the truth that their Dagim tuna facility in the Philippines employs Islamist terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf division of al Qaeda who moonlight to make some money on the side.
Too bad the NY Times did not also report the shmutz how they mistreated their former rav hamachshir Rav Spiegel from Boro Park / Kensington.
I guess finsterreh people produce finsterreh albacore
I know a Rov who was helping the Pesach rental victim. The baal habos charged extra to present a cleaned residence yet the only couch was full of extreme numbers of chometz crumbs.
What was his "hitztadkus" to shake down for more money? He "decided" he needs to make more money than he already agreed to. But even this corrupt inflation wasn't enough so he started inventing false accusations against the tenant.
R' Yudel must have his magnifying glass out because he found more than 1 product from Lieber's this year that's actually acceptable!
The word "quinoa" is obviously missing in the line before not for Ashkenazim, kitniyos al pi Aida & R' Shloime Miller
(Rav Elyashev also assers altz kitniyos AND the stuff is infested - raaya ledavar is how fast Star K ran to be the first certifier)
Farshteit men that you feel emotionally compelled to farkoif OU above the heimishe shgooches after all the disappointing let downs. But you keep making carve outs, and rightly so. No OU for shvache heterim with kashering by chocolate and no OU for kitnios shenishtaneh in diet sodas ...
You know there are many other carve outs from the OU like when they appoint inappropriate Linker mashgichim at certain companies, turn a blind eye to Meshichistim, play games with sefichim in Israel, etc, etc, etc
The OU is far from Utopia after all!
The copepods in nori sheets are only a halba tzorah because some poskim hold you can't see them at first glance therefore they are mutter. The bigger problem is that there are also miniature seahorses.
Mon Apr 01, 11:44:00 PM 2024
There is one brans of Quinoa which is NOT infested and never was infested.
Will not publish name of Company so that you can't have the great Mizvah of Moizee Shaim Rah.
The OU is far from Utopia after all!
Just another loser here. The truth just eats away at him literally.
Warning about Pesach rentals
Do not rely on pictures. Go down to see the place in person.
When in person do not rely on the appearance of the furniture. Sit down on all the couches & beds because some sketchy landlords outfit the rentals with cheap furniture that is as hard as rocks. You will be sore all over from sleeping & sitting, if you can even fall asleep!
Do not rely on any assurances of "cleaning" for chometz and "kashering" the kitchen. Hire a reliable kashering service for the kitchen & inspect how well the rest of the house was cleaned. There are greedy, immoral landlords who will tell you what you want to hear about kashering the kitchen. These mechutzofim even upcharge what a service under hashgocho charges except they don't do the job. For cleaning the rest of the house I know a case where a house was rented from the only Rav in that town. The Rav "relied" on a goyta who left all kinds of chometz detritus all over. She was so useless that even all the kitchen chairs were coated in bread crumbs. And the Rav was azoy negligent that he failed to notice if he even bothered to look. The rental is the first house next door to him so it's not like it was a tircha for him.
The Volover farentfers that his nori sheets don't have shrotzim. Is such a thing possible? Or is this comparable to the 'secret stash' of raisins that was being claimed as sourced at KCL?
"Just another loser here"
(Correct if spoken in first person!)
Aye mashgiach, hopping mad as usual that someone identified the GLARING chesronos in the OU that you so idolize?
You're not concerned about Meshichistim shechting at David Shmelliot?
Sure we would be very concerned, but we checked it out with some covet info provided to ascertain if they are from the "KOTT", and they are not.
Seckbach, not Zegbach
The frierdik Lubavitcher Rebbe said: Es is doh hashgacha oif vos men leigt in di teplach, farvos is nitto kein hashgacha vus men leigt in di keplach?
Al pi the above the rosh yeshiva of Lubavitch Cincinnati Rav Avtzon warns about inappropriate sevivos at some Chol Hamoed activities.
He further complains that all geshften selling Sta"m should be under hashgacha.
Mikvaos in appliance stores are problematic. They go for years without inspection by rabbonim. Some have never been inspected. He personally was told by the Boro Park mumche on mikvaos Rav Yirmiyahu Katz that the same problems extend even to veiber mikvaos. Other rsbobnim have told him hair raising horror stories vegen dem!
Therapists, Dating coaches and Chassan & Kallah teachers need to be vetted by rabbonim too
https://agoodfriend.co/
Not surprised that Rabbi Steinmetz allows basically any shechita that's out there
If you're worried about copepods in the dark green seaweed layer of sushi rolls, check into every take out store & food-drink manufacturer in NYC, Westchester County, Boston, Seattle & more than 10,000 other locations throughout America that skirt Federal water filtering guidelines. Even if a hashgocho like the OU has them install a site filter, it's completely useless unless it's the Nirbater who actually cares & checks up on the filtering status. The others like OU know the filter gets clogged and turn a blind eye to all the years of infested backwash that follow. Lots of proteiny copepods & silverfish that don't make the list of ingredients.
Wow what a list from a Cincinnati Rabbi giving daious on the world.
Anyway, all mikvas that I saw in appliance stores or wholesalers are all under hashgacha.
How would you know what the OU does ?
If you hate the OU as it seems from your comments, just post: I hate the OU (but I still use them because I have no choice since all hashgacha rely on them one way or another) but I still hate them.
Is this nonsense a Lakewood thing or can non Lakewooders also be nasty ??
I mean you had to put that Lakewood thing in there to get even with whom? The whole town? Just a section ??? Which one (aren’t you looking for mitzvahs?) ??
I was told what the OU & other hashgochos (don't) do with water filters by an org that monitors hashgochos.
Leave it to the OU & it's Spooks floating around the blogs to attack & cast aspersions on the motives of anyone who's got the goods on them.
The boutique estate producers of olive oil in California that you like are also good for Pesach without a P? Or need specific Pesach supervision?
Look who dove headfirst in here yesterday evening to write a trio of attacks on commenters.
'You Know Who'! Who else?
He starts off belittling a Cinci rosh yeshiva at 6:30.
At 6:33 he's ticked off because we got a window into an OU headfake pretending to be makpid on copepods. He's really having a fit over this one because Nirbatur Ruv was commended as allegedly being the only shgoocha who bothers to regularly change the water filters. Remember that Meal Mart Queens under der Nirbatur is from the FF gesheften that 'You Know Who' bashes the most. Some shpiel about how he doesn't trust the kashrus (a badge of honor considering the source) & if it wasn't for Queens Vaad co-certification it would be in gantzen farfallen (kaviyuchel)! Never mind that he doesn't shter zich for a second to FF from the place.
6:37 pm is yet more proof that 'You Know Who' has reading comprehension problemmen. Someone wrote that a wannabe Air B&Bnik bought himself a vacation property in the Lakewood area. That means the baal habus doesn't live in Lakewood. DUH! But leave it to 'You Know Who' to attack the victim, twisting the narrative completely out of context as the victim getting even with gantz Lakewood altz irrational sinah. "Nasty" zugt er???? Has 'You Know Who' ever looked in the mirror or considered how acidic all his tzebissneh disruptions of Yudelstake are???? The "mitzvah" that 'You Know Who' is oisek in is undermining the victim's message and bashmutzing the victim after R' Yudel saw fit to share the message.
...org that monitors hashgochos...
You mean like yudels site? Or are there others? who are they? what site?
KIC & KIS are orgs monitoring hashgochos. It wasn't them. I'm afraid if I name the org they will come under heavy attack by shadow operatives - both officially working for the OU and other negligent hashgochos AND the destructive big mouths no one appointed who inject all their poisonous gobbledygook in every Yudelstake discussion. When a kashrus or rabbonishe figure catches a pshiah, they jump like a virtual mafia to break his limbs.
Sounds like this guy just finished looking in the mirror
Is Papaya good this year ?? No comments about it.
Papaya is Ho'adamah. Those that make a ha'eitz, are eating ודאי ערלה
You got to put that on your recomended Pesach lust
"OU-P” grocery items with no heimish hashgocha on package is usually a preferred pesach product"
Does that make OU-P Breakstone butter good leshitas R' Aron Kotler? Or does Breakstone add cholov akum ingredients that are not butter?
It was a big controversy when the Chassidishe complained in 1990s that BMG allowed the pure USDA butter in the dining room. Who are they to make a tummel against the rosh yeshiva ztvkl? And why did the yeshiva penalize everyone for them when no one was forcing them to eat it?
Butter can only be made with pure cows milk
Butter commonly has whey which often comes from Gevinas Akum, and is Ossur.
Many poskim hold that whey is not asur since there was nonagenarian on whey and it’s similar (not the same) to butter
/No posek holds that whey from gevinas akum is muttar.
It's not the same when which the poslim are matir. Its a completely different product which is added to the butter.
What is the story with the volover letter and xanath gum? Who is he referring too?
The Volovers Son in Law knows the purpose of the letter-347 645 2032
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