what does kosher mean?

Question

more specifically I mean.

Answer 1

Basically "clean" kosher meat is meat considered clean by Jewish people.

For example any sea food that lives on the ocean floor is not kosher and pigs are not kosher because they eat their own feces.

Answer 2

Kosher foods satisfy the rules provided to the Jews in the Old Testament. Firstly, it has to be a particular kind of food. It has to be prepared in a certain way. I cannot have any blood in or on it. If it is meat it has to be slaughtered painlessly. Milk and Meat products cannot be put together, or even served on the same plates or prepared on the same countertops in the kitchen. Then at one time or another a small sample of it, a sacrifice, has to be taken from it and blessed by a Rabbi and burned until it is unuseable. It cannot be a piece that fell on the floor. It has to be a good sample that you would otherwise have eaten. The food is usually a very high quality.
There are other rules, but I'm a gentile. I just worked in a Kosher food environment once.

Answer 3

Kosher is whether its clean or not and if a Rabbi has blessed it or not. Usually Rabbis are right there to make sure specific cuts of meat are made and that they are kosher. It all comes from the Old Testament. It is not good under Jewish (rules, law, whatever you want to call it) to not eat kosher foods.

Answer 4

Well, there's more to it than just type of food. Yes, Kosher obeys the ancient laws of Moses: you may eat the meat of anything that "divides the foot" (has hooves or two toes) and chews cud (e.g., cows, sheep, deer, moose), any fish that has scales, and locusts. You may not eat pork, shrimp, clams, porcupine.

Note that the Mosaic law was ignorant of biology; it says rabbits (coneys) are OK for food because they chew the cud. But they don't--

OK, but there are additional laws about preparation. You must not eat the blood--which means that the meat must be properly butchered so that the liquids drain away. Flesh and dairy must not touch--so a good kosher kitchen will have knives especially used for meat (flayschig) and dairy (milchig) and will use different surfaces for cutting meats and for cutting cheeses.

Many manufacturers of kosher products retain a rabbi to certify that they're following all the requirements.

Answer 5

Kosher is the Jewish dietary law. It governs the way they must prepare and eat their food. It comes from the Torah or Leviticus in the Old Testament.

Answer 6

The kosher is meat of animals that they been cut in special ceremony by a Hohokam and they have pray on meat to be pure and accepted by Jehovah to feed people (Jewish) and animal must be cut from under neck and it's blood must be come out completely then meat is ready to slice and cock (which is very healthy proses .

Answer 7

Kosher means food that is prepared according to Jewish dietary laws.

Kosher kitchens must be inspected by a trained Rabbi on a regular basis.

Kosher guidelines include-

No meat and cheese together in same dish,
(No meat-topped pizzas!)

No shellfish (shrimp, clams, crab, etc...)
(in general, these are bottom-feeders, and feed on carrion...)

No pork.
( besides being thought of as unclean, ancient people would have shunned pork because they wouldn't have understood how to avoid getting sick from trichinosis from under-cooked pork...)

Some foods, like candies, are considered "pareve" which, I think, means they need not be inspected or approved by a rabbi...

Answer 8

kosher means it was cut in a specific way, according to jewish laws of food.

halal is meat cut according to the rules of islam

Answer 9

In today's market with the regulations and inspections
NOTHING
except the ritual killing,,
by religious (?) deviates (no devotees???) I don't know
a slow death by bleeding .
That still does nothing for the purity or holliness of the meat.
Considered More humane than a bullet.

Answer 10

Basically kosher means that the animal was killed in a painless and humane way....