Toronto – Just in time for the big pre-Passover cleanup, SpongeTowels Ultra have been certified kosher.
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Many standard paper towels are glued to the tube with an adhesive containing starch that is not kosher for Passover for Ashkenazi Jews. They would have to avoid at least the last sheet, but now they don’t have to worry about any contamination. No non-kosher animal by-products are used in the manufacturing of the paper towels, either.
During Passover, corn, legumes and rice (known as kitniyot) are prohibited for Ashkenazi Jews (from Central and Eastern Europe). They are permissible for Sephardic Jews (Middle Eastern background).
The Kashruth Council of Canada inspected the factory in Crabtree, Que., and certified the towels kosher. The maker, Kruger Products, says the change is a response to consumer demand. Suggested retail price is $7.99 for six rolls.
Every time I make a paper towel kugel for Pesach, I feel a little guilty.
What’s next, certifying oxygen?
Religion gone wild.
The focus of what is “really” important has completely shifted from the serious issues like honesty, middos, and working on being a good person – and, instead we now focus on whether or not the last sheet of the paper towel roll has kitniyos???
Wow – we need to hit the re-set button …
what other gimmik we have to make money
and we all fall for that
there is now kosher lepesach internet
Just another example of how frum priorities are so out of whack.
Shady business dealings, cheating the government, yeshivas flaunting zoning laws, ostentatious spending, and public chilul Hashems on practically a weekly basis are minor problems that don’t need much attention, but THIS is a major breakthrough! Putting a “hechser” on something that never needed one to begin with???
What a joke.
JUST what we were missing… Now we can have a chag kasher….
This is almost as important as having a hechsher on water, soap, detergents, tin foil, and plastic bags!!!
And if you are stupid enough to think that any of the items listed needs a hashgocha, you know nothing about kashrus. You’re just gullible enough to believe the kosher companies that say you “should have it”.
However stupid this may be, it did achieve achdus. A rare occasion for us all to agree about something!
Why is it foolish to make sure your not soaking up your latkes with glue that has chumetz in it. Chumets is even a moshehu?
I know what many of you will answer to this question($$$$). But honestly why are the kashrut org. giving their hasgacha for these items.
1) It makes them look silly.
2)We are talking about big Rabbis here, not your average business entrepreneurs.
We use kosher aluminum foil so why not kosher paper towels.
Shoyn! Another gullible company getting hashgocha on something that doesn’t need hashgocha.
I wonder if COR was 100% honest with the company by telling them they don’t need hashgocha.
I am wondering if the paper towels are certified as Shmura M’shas K’tzira???
“Many standard paper towels are glued to the tube with an adhesive containing starch that is not kosher for Passover for Ashkenazi Jews”
that means: kitniyos – not real chometz. THERE IS NO SUCH CHUMRA TO AVOID COMING IN CONTACT WITH KITNIYOS. THIS IS A NEW MISHAGOS.
actually, the COR did this as a service for the Canadian community. They asked a very minimal fee, and kruger changed one of its glues. Now ppl in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, don’t have to spend triple on paper towels with a heimishe hechsher.
And for your information:
many napkins with a print may have an even more serious concern of real chomeitz, so if you want to bring your food in contact with a napkin or paper towel, take ONLY one with a reliable hashgacha.
We have reached an new level of amaratzus!!
Their is a old yiddish vort asofi as goish zich aso yiddisht zich it means its a 2 way street. If lipa can come out with a hagadah then can thr rebunimgive a hashgocha on paper towel
nu, what about gezel? if there’s no real reason to have a hechsher, than to put a hechsher on it is gezel gamor!
Their is a old yiddish vort asofi as goish zich aso yiddisht zich it means its a 2 way street. If lipa can come out with a hagadah then can thr rebunimgive a hashgocha on paper towel
Ah nyaa meshigass…