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Toveling: Utensils: Kasher or Tovel First?
If you have a non-kosher food utensil, kasher it before you immerse it in a mikva (tevila).
 
Kashering Oven Racks

You may kasher oven racks by putting them in a self-cleaning oven and running the self-clean cycle. Or, clean with oven cleaner and then put into a normal oven on its highest temperature for 40 minutes.

Kashering a Gas Stove
To kasher a gas stove:
  • Remove the burner grates,
  • Clean off any deposits,
  • Place the grates on a clean surface inside the oven, and
  • Heat the grates to the oven's maximum temperature for 40 minutes.
 
Passover: Kashering an Oven
To kasher an oven for Passover:
  • Clean it completely, including any hard deposits, and
  • Heat the oven for 40 minutes at its highest temperature.
Kashering a Clean Electric Stove
To kasher a clean electric stove, turn the burners on to the highest setting until the burner glows red (this is easier to see at night) or until a piece of paper will burn on it (the paper does not need to burst into flame).
 
Kashering an Electric or Gas Regular Oven
To kasher an oven that is not self-cleaning, you must:
  • Remove any deposits on the walls, racks, and window.
    Note If there are stains or deposits, you must clean them off or burn them off. If the stains or deposits do not come off after two cycles of using strong oven cleaner such as Easy Off, the oven is considered sufficiently clean.
  • Turn the oven on to its maximum temperature for 40 minutes.
    Note Self-cleaning ovens attain a higher maximum temperature than do non-self-cleaning ovens.
Kashering an Electric or Gas Self-Cleaning Oven
To kasher a self-cleaning electric or gas oven, you do not need to clean it first. Just run the self-clean cycle.
Kashering a Grill
Make a grill red hot to kasher it.
Kashering a Dishwasher from Dairy to Meat, or Vice Versa
You may not kasher a dishwasher (even if it is stainless steel) from dairy to meat, or vice versa, in order to use the dishwasher for dairy and for meat utensils, even sequentially.
Passover: When To Finish Kashering
When kashering an oven or utensils for Passover, you may kasher:
  • By Libun
  Anytime, including on chol ha'moed (but not on Jewish festivals or Shabbat).
  • By Hag'ala
  Until one hour before halachic midday on Passover eve (but b'di'avad it is OK until
  just before sunset of Passover eve).
 
Microwave Oven: Kosher Status: Walls and Door

Since microwave oven walls and doors do not normally get hot (more than 120° F, or 49° C), there is usually no need to kasher them from milk to meat (or back to milk); from ordinary use to Passover use; or from non-kosher to kosher. Just clean all surfaces.

Using a Non-Kosher Cooking Utensil
You may not use a non-kosher cooking utensil (pot, pan, baking dish, etc.) for cooking even if the utensil is clean and has not been used for more than 24 hours (unless you kasher it first).
Passover: Kitniyot in Passover Utensil
Situation Kitniyot were cooked in a Passover utensil. 
Situation 1 The kitniyot's volume was less than 50\% of the volume of food cooked in that utensil. 
Status The food may be eaten and the utensil may be used on Passover (no need to kasher). 


Situation 2 The kitniyot's volume was more than 50\% of the volume of the food cooked in that utensil.
Status The food is not permitted to be eaten. 


Situation 2a The kitniyot's volume was more than 50\% of the volume of the food cooked in that utensil, and the total volume of the food cooked (kitniyot + non-kitniyot) was less than the normal volume of food which is cooked in that utensil.
Status The utensil may be used even without kashering, as long as you wait at least 24 hours after the utensil has been cleaned. 


Situation 2b The kitniyot's volume was more than 50\% of the volume of the utensil itself and more than 50\% of the normal volume of food cooked in it.
Status You may not eat the food (until after Passover) and must kasher the utensil after waiting 24 hours. 
NOTE You may only kasher a utensil on chol ha'moed but NOT on the festival days themselves. 
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Larger Pot Spatters above Normal Food Line
Situation
  • A hot, empty pot of one gender gets a spatter of opposite-gender food ABOVE the normal food line. 
  • The spatter is more than 1/3600 of the normally used volume of the pot.
Status The pot is non-kosher.
What To Do You must kasher the pot by washing in cold water and soap, waiting 24 hours, and then boiling the pot.
Kashrut: Fish: Fish and Meat Together
Do not cook or eat meat-containing and fish-containing foods together:
  • After eating fish, you must eat and drink some other food before eating meat-containing food.
  • After eating meat-containing food, you must eat and drink some other food before eating fish.
Note If meat and fish were mixed or cooked together, there is no need to kasher the utensils.