A couple of days ago it occurred to me that giving up dairy could do away with some of my kitchen drudgery.
Since I keep kosher but only have one dishwasher, I use the dishwasher only for dairy dishes and cookware. We ate cereal with milk every day and most of my baking was dairy, so it made sense at the time. (If only I'd been able to see into the future. Drat.) Meat dishes and cookware get washed by hand, as do pareve (neither meat nor dairy) dishes and cookware.
Now that I won't be cooking with dairy any more, though, maybe I could kasher my dishwasher and use it for meat dishes. Then I would only be washing cereal/ice cream bowls and spoons by hand, instead of all the dishes for meat meals.
How nice that would be! I'll ask my rabbi if the dishwasher can be acceptably kashered. His answer, whatever it may be, is bound to be interesting.
Ooh! That would be awesome. I hope he can think of a way.
My SIL is lactose intolerant, and I was briefly jealous when I thought she could get by with only one set of dishes. Her kids still want mac & cheese sometimes, though.
It was years before it hit me that for most people, the 2 cabinets in a tiny NYC kitchen could actually be enough to hold all their dishes! When you don't have 3 sets of everything...
Posted by: persephone | October 16, 2009 at 08:43 AM