What kind of kosher food does Jewish people eat?

Question

My friend told me that Jewish people eat kosher, but I just wanna know what kind.

Answer 1

HI! I gues you would like to know what kosher food exatly means. So let me try to give you a "short" answer, not enetering much into details.
Some of rule what is kosher (alowed) food is given in the Bible (Old Testamnet) and some was decided later, cosed by questions and life conditions Jews had to face during history.
One of the rule of kosher kitche is that meat and dairy products are cooked and eaten separately. This also means that a kosher kitchen will have separate dishes for milk, chees, yogurt, and for meals with meat. So a cheezburger or a salami pizza with cheese will not be kosher, as it has both meat and cheese in it in the same time.
To prepare kosher meat, an animal has to be killed in a certain way. It has to be without blod. A specially thought rabi has to kill the animal, to make kosher meat. then the meat is kept in solt, and only then it can be consumed. there are certain kind of animals which are not kosher to eat: pig, horse, some fish and sea food, so Jews who eat kosher will not eat them.
all kosher fish and eggs are konsidered "parve", which means that they can be eaten any time, with or without milk and meat food.
also one who keeps kosher kitchen takes good care of not having any bugs in his food. he/she will wash the vegatables very, very well, or siev the flour. To make kosher bread a special prayer must be read, and a ritual hand washing is done too.
Kosher vine means that it is compeltely made by a Jewish person (from growing the grapes to botheling it). This is because bread and wine has special meaning, and it is blessed on Shabath and Holiday meals, as simbol of food and drink received from God.
Not all Jews eat kosher, and not all Jews keep kosher rules as I wrote you down. Nowdays, only the ultra religious Jews eat ike that. Some Jews are not this strict any more, keeping these rules only partly or not at all.
This was rather a short answer, but I hope that it gave you some clearity about what kosher food is.

Answer 2

Question: Is OK if I eat kosher foods? Answer: Yes, certainly! Kosher foods are NOT blessed by a rabbi! Rabbis oversee the production of foods to make sure that kosher foods are not contaminated by any traif (non-kosher) foods. Employee practices are checked to make sure no one must work on the Sabbath. Rabbis ensure that animals and other critters are slaughtered in the most humane method possible. None of this leads to better-tasting foods -- they are simply foods that are certified kosher for Jewish consumption. I suspect you would find non-kosher meats more tasty since they are aged before sale. Kosher meats must be soaked in kosher salt for a certain amount of time to assure that ALL the blood has been removed from the meat. (Btw, kosher salt does not mean it has been certified kosher, it simply means that is a larger grain for use in kashering meats.) .

Answer 3

Not all Jews, unfortunately, eat kosher. Of those that do, well, all kinds of kosher food are eaten.
Are you asking what exactly ARE kosher foods?

If so, you may want to try www.oukosher.org for a primer. They are the largest kosher certification agency in the USA.

For the record, at least two respondants answered the common but wrong answer that kosher food is "blessed by a rabbi" which is starting to irk me since it is easy to find out that that is NOT true.

No rabbi blesses the food. In fact, no kosher supervisor has to be a rabbi, though many of them are. It just means that the food is processed in accordance to Jewish law. In many circumstances, a supervisor (or inspector) is required to make sure this is the case.

Answer 4

You eat Kosher foods too .
Look on catsup bottles ,canned fish ,mustard jars and you will see a" u " within a circle or a "K" this means that the product was blessed by a Rabbi and is Kosher .
Look at ALL your everyday foods . Jews eat everythind you mostly eat .You didn`t know you were Kosher ,now did you ?????

Answer 5

Kosher means 'fit to eat' by biblical standards. Delicatesens specialize in kosher foods such as meats that have been salted to remove the blood, lox, bagels, matzo balls, kosher dill pickles. There are all kinds of foods.

Answer 6

Kosher.

Answer 7

This is from an about.com article on "What is Kosher?"...

Kosher food is food prepared in accordance with Jewish Dietary Laws
Jewish Dietary Laws (Kashrut): ...The full aritcle describes how it differs from Jewish food

http://kosherfood.about.com/od/kosherbas...

There are links in red on the left that show how to buy and prepare as well as recipes, holiday foods, varieties and Sabbath cooking.

Answer 8

Kosher foods means that the foods have been blessed by a rabbi. Not each individually but at the store the whole meat carcass or other foods have been blessed.

Answer 9

Do you know what Kosher means? Jews can't eat shell fish or pork. Many jews believe you can't eat certian things unless they are blessed by a Rabbi.

Answer 10

Very informative except the glaring spelling mistakes