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.

You have decided there is demand for such products. Now, you need to be one hundred percent conversant with all the laws and rules concerning the handling of fleshy produce. The community you will be serving needs to feel you have faithfully observed all relevant regulations when sourcing the products. It is a must for you to gain a clear understanding of the religious rules involved. You must differentiate permitted from forbidden products.

If your restaurant is serving meat to that community, be sure to follow all the applicable religious laws. Familiarize yourself with the specific requirements of the Torah, especially regarding what types of items are allowed or disallowed. The Torah expressly defines kosher flesh as that which has been produced by animals that chew the cud and have cloven hooves have been properly slaughtered. Mutton and beef are allowed.

If a type of animal fails to satisfy either of these requirements, the product from such a creature will not be deemed fit for consumption. For instance, a camel is known to chew the cud, but the hooves are undivided. In the same breath, a pig has divided hooves, but the creature does not regurgitate feed. The law from the Torah eliminates these two animals from the list of permitted items for your menu.

Another important factor taken into consideration is who did the slaughtering and how they performed the act. According to these regulations, not every person is permitted to slaughter animals. The right animals must be slaughtered by the right person to qualify as licensed food. The beast needs to be slaughtered in a way that does not cause pain to them, too.

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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