What are Kosher Pickles?!
What are Kosher Pickles?
Does anyone know the difference between Kosher dill pickles and regular dill pickles? Are Kosher pickles blessed by a Rabbi? I'm confused!!
Answers:
Kosher food isn't blessed by anybody, except that kosher slaughtering takes place after a blessing of thanks for the animal. Kosher food in general simply meets certain standards - for instance, that it hasn't been produced with the same equipment that processed a forbidden animal, or with equipment that has been used to process both meat AND milk (we as Jews are forbidden to eat meat and milk together). For kosher pickles, it's pretty much a certification that there's no meat OR milk in the process anywhere.
There's a difference in "kosher" and "kosher-style" (which is what most "kosher" dills actually are); it's just a way of pickling them that gives them a certain flavor as opposed to the flavor of hamburger dills. They may or may not be "kosher" in the religious sense of the term.
If you want to know if something that is commercially packaged is kosher, then it will generally have one (or more) of the symbols on the page at the link below. These just mean that a facility and its products have been certified by a rabbi who is knowlegable in the laws of kashrut to meet the standards required for a food to be considered kosher.