My decision to change my kitchen was not a hard one. I’ve longed to have a kitchen that was beyond clean. 🙂
On Sunday, 14 April 2013 I set in motion to make my kitchen kosher. I watched over 50 videos on youtube on how to do this and why. Let me say this, if you are going to do a change in your life, know the reason for such change and then research to implement that change properly.
This process was not easy and it was not simple. It is not a matter of just cleaning your home or removing some of the food you have. Let me share my experience with you on what it took for me to have a kosher kitchen.
Day 1
On 14 April I got up and shared a dream I had with my husband about having a kosher kitchen. He said to me, that’s funny, I was thinking the same thing about a week ago but did not know how to approach you about it. I said to him, Let’s Do It!
Now let me be clear, when I said “let’s” he meant me. 🙂
I took all the food out of the cabinets and the refrigerator to check the labels for Kosher symbols. You will find this website helpful for those symbols. Click Here. ( a little advice, I found that it is best to do some research on each one of those)
I had to get rid of most of the food in my house. Now this can be costly to some. I don’t recommend that you throw out your food it was something I decided to do. I read that some people will cook all the food they have that is not kosher and then began the process. I think that is best. It is not what I wanted to do.
This was full
The Freezer empty. Most of the vegetables I brought did not have a kosher symbol on them so I had to get rid of them.
My cabinets are always full but now…..
The refrigerator is almost empty. I have my juicing veggies in the drawers.
Day 2 and 3
I now had to focus on the pots and pans and all the dishes. The Torah forbids the cooking and consumption of any milk with any meat. You can find this twice in the book of Exodus and once in Deuteronomy. It states “Do not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.” for this reason it is prohibited to mix dairy and meat. Therefore I needed to remove anything that I used meat and dairy together My husband and I are vegetarians but after he joined the Army he began eating some meats on occasions. Things like turkey and maybe chicken. Never pork! That is strictly forbidden in the Torah. (we have NEVER eaten or touched pork).
I found that some of my dishes were questionable. “If in doubt, throw it out” I sold all the dishes I had and all my pots and pans. I also sold some of my mixing bowls. This is what I was left with:
As you can see not much to cook with at all. Now we have to buy all new dishes, pots and pans, and utensils. For me it is all worth it in the end.
Day 4-6
So on day 4 I began selling things that I could sale. Things I could not I throw out. Now I had to wash down the counters, the drawers, and the sink. This was not as easy as it sounds.
On Day 5 I was so tired but I knew what I was doing for our good and would bring us closer to Hashem. We cleaned all the baseboard in the house cleaned the bathrooms and mopped all the floors.
Here we are at day 6. All the work is complete and we have a kosher kitchen! I feel really good and happy that we can now serve good clean food in our home. Next step: learning Hebrew, reading and more reading and studying. I’m so happy to be on this path
Stay tuned as I will share my journey……
Today, I really wanted to find some time to spend thinking about the goodness that we have from our Creator. There are many thing that I enjoy in my life and one of them is having my morning tea in the rain. I love the sounds of the rain. When all the world (well, at least in my world) is quite and all you hear is the sound of the rain falling to the earth. I often say HaShem is blessing us with water to drink, feeding the plants of the earth for our food and giving us time to reflect and think about the beauty of His creation.
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