The World’s First Kosher Cheeseburger Is Here

The Jewish Daily Forward ^ | May 22, 2018 | Shira Feder

[Tea Party Terrorist]

“Plant based meat” -? Satire?

[reg45]

We can call it a shamburger.

[AFreeBird]

Well, beef eats plants, so all beef is plant based.

[EinNYC]

I didn’t think Jews allowed milk products to be mixed with heated foods like a burger.

The laws of kashruth forbid eating meat products along with milk products, even requiring separate meat and milk cooking pots, utensils, and serving dishes. It has nothing to do with the temperature of the food. It's the nature of the food. Meat is meat, milk is milk. This new "burger" is not made of meat, but of plant products. Therefore, there is no mixing of meat and milk together and it would be kosher.

[Mears]

“The laws of kashruth forbid eating meat products along with milk products, even requiring separate meat and milk cooking pots, utensils, and serving dishes. “

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I know lady who even had two dishwashers.

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[PLMerite]

"Meat less wieners have been around for sometime."

If there's a low road, I'll find it.

[Chickensoup]

Look at that pretty little girl face embedded in the bigger face.

Sad

[bgill]

That was depressed for years because it couldn’t find anyone who wanted to be in a relationship with it. Jenner complained about the same for a while but he’s got one of his kind so some such on his arm these days. Can you say a publicity grabber?

[bgill]

We just spent sixty bucks on six fake meat products.

Ok, have to ask why?

[bgill]

Sanitation and cooking practices have improved over the pass several thousand years. Cross contamination. I can’t see how there’s any reason for that now aside from tradition.

There’s also a reason why foods are more spicy from countries with higher temperatures. Spice is used to retard spoilage and to cover it up.

[KC_for_Freedom]

My son works there, I have tasted them. they are indistinguishable from a meat burger. Very good but currently about one dollar more than a meat burger. Most places that sell impossible burgers allow the customer to order a regular burger and then substitute the Impossible burger in place of the meat product which they also sell.

I am pleased that the product meets kosher standards and is not meat. So it can be eaten with meat or dairy. This expands the sales potential. I believe the same goes for food that meets the Muslim requirements. Impossible foods can sell everything they produce.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Poor Chasity was raped by her mother's pervert friends. She decided to be a guy because boys don't get raped.

It makes sense from a ten year old's view point.

[Larry Lucido]

Chef David Chang

It's not a cheeseburger.

And I'll bet he's not Chinese.

[EinNYC]

Sanitation and cooking practices have improved over the pass several thousand years. Cross contamination. I can’t see how there’s any reason for that now aside from tradition.

We don't keep kosher because of "sanitation". That's what the reform Jews use as a human rationale to excuse themselves from following the dictates of the Torah. We were told in the Torah that we can't eat milk and meat together, and with the corollary (Orthodox) rabbinical interpretations, this forms the basis of keeping kosher. It's "tradition" because observant Jews have followed Torah law for thousands of years. That is why there are still recognizable Jews today.

[Lonely Bull]

No slaughterhouses, no hormones, no cholesterol, no artificial flavors, no antibiotics and no guilt is involved in the making of these burgers.

How much guilt does the FDA allow?

[faithhopecharity]

we would like to move towards a more vegie diet

[Secret Agent Man]

The Fauxburger.

[CodeToad]

Got it. Thanks.

[Lonely Bull]

My son works there, I have tasted them. they are indistinguishable from a meat burger.

Though I've never tried one, I've heard the same thing.

I still wouldn't call it "The World’s First Kosher Cheeseburger." If we're going to use "-burger" only for genuine meat products (perhaps allowing the most obvious exceptions, like "veggieburger"), the Impossible Burger wouldn't count. If we are going to use "-burger" more freely for foods that aren't meat, the Impossible Burger isn't the first. It may be the closest simulation of meat so far, but I'd use a less misleading description. I don't like the food equivalent of clickbait.

I've also heard of, and heard objections about, "kosher cheeseburgers" made with meat and pareve soy cheese. For example, from 2008,

JEWS HAVE A ‘BEEF’

“Jewish law is very concerned for appearances,” said Rabbi Basil Herring, the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America. “Not only should you always do the right thing, but it should be seen as the right thing.

“Any Jew who keeps kosher knows a cheeseburger is not permissible. But . . . what happens if a young kid, a 10-year-old, goes in there and says, hmm, maybe cheese on a burger is OK?”

[Guardian Sebastian]

The White Castle by our house had a veggie burger they were advertising for a while. I wonder if it was this product. I asked the drive thru person one day if they sell many of them and she said maybe one or two a day.