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today i'm so excited because after my
kosher kitchen tour so many of you asked
me how i verify my food to make sure it
is kosher according to jewish dietary
laws so today i will bring you along as
i check my fruits veggies grains and a
very suspicious box of cake mix before
using them in my orthodox safari kosher
kitchen to make sure that they are
kosher and bug free as eating bugs is
forbidden for us
i cannot wait to hear if you think that
book checking is a good thing after
watching this video especially when you
see the amount of bugs we will find i
think it will shock you
if you're new here hi my name is sarah
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let me put on a pretty tickle and let's
jump into it
before i bring anything in the house
that will be used for eating cooking or
baking i will make sure that they are
kosher and they look as much as possible
bug free in the store for my fruits and
vegetables this is why i verify a few
things in the store
for most of the clothes vegetables and
fruits like carrots beets apples banana
i simply wash and eat them as long as
they do not have questionable signs like
holes on their surface but for certain
fruits and vegetables they can't be
checked fully due to their structure and
the size of the bugs like blackberries
and raspberries where the insects are
found between the driplets or small
balls of the berries which makes them
impossible to fully be checked
the same holds true for the cauliflowers
where the insects are in and around the
tight white curds which makes them
impossible to be checked fully for bugs
for the fresh broccoli we only eat the
stalks and not the florets whether for
broccoli or cauliflower we will only eat
them fully if they are grown in special
bug-free greenhouses and you will
understand why when i show you what i
found in the florist when we come home
for certain fruits veggies and other
food that are known to be frequently
infested by bugs i can simply do a
vedica or verification to make sure they
are kosher and free for example celery i
always checked them in the store to make
sure there are no visible insects and
them in these organic celery i looked at
10 packs and all of them had bugs so i
will look for another alternative for my
celery
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after looking at different options this
one seems pretty nice i cannot see bugs
on the surface and i do not see holes as
well but sometimes looks can be
deceiving so we shall see later at home
when we check it for bugs
for the roman lettuce i do the same
thing i look at the packs to make sure
the leaves are fresh and i do not see
bugs and in this bag everything seems
perfect so it's coming home with us
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for the grains and legumes i will look
in the store to see if there's a lot of
powder in the bag which is a telltale
sign that there might be insects like in
this bag of wheat kernels that had a lot
of powder in it and when i looked at it
closely i saw that there were many many
bugs inside
these two bags of rice seem okay so
they're coming home with us
i will also buy some eggs all eggs from
kosher birds are kosher unless they have
a blood spot in their yolk i will take
white regular eggs and some organic eggs
and i will show you how i check them to
be sure they are kosher so they do not
present a blood spot and why i only use
regular white eggs as you can see i was
not very lucky with my first box of
organic eggs so i put it away and i took
another one
this week i also needed some flour and
some cake mix and i will show you what i
found in one of them which was a shocker
for me
as i never found anything like that in
the past in this kind of product
once that i am home i will take out
everything
and then i will take out my trusty bug
light
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i will start by checking my chickpeas as
they need a bit more time to be fully
checked before checking them i like to
put them in a glass container to make
them easier to handle then i put them in
water sometimes like in this bag as soon
as i immerse the chickpeas i see a
weevil that is floating at the surface
of the water
don't worry i removed it and rescued it
by putting it in the garden
now that i do not see any bugs i will
let the chickpeas soak and we will check
them again once that they are rehydrated
because rehydrating the chickpeas will
allow me to see better the surface of
the chickpeas while the chickpeas are
being rehydrated i will start my roman
lettuce i take it out and of course i
prepare them in small batch
i detach the leaves one by one
and i like taking a quick look at them
to see if i can already see a lot of
insects and this lettuce seems pretty
clean
i place the leaves in a bowl with cold
water and yes i should have taken a
large basin but i wanted to show you the
process in a glass bowl for you to be
able to see everything
then i add my veggie wash i buy it in my
grocery store but you can buy it online
too i mix everything thoroughly
and then i will let it sit for 5 to 10
minutes
while it is soaking i will start my
celery as you can see my celery seems
very nice at the store but when i
unwrapped it there were quite a bit of
nicks at the surface and i could already
find a bug at the feet of the celery
while i'm detaching the branches of the
celery i see more and more insects on
the surface of the celery
i place my celery branches in a sieve
and i run the celery under the water and
i use my veggie brush on every surface
to remove as many bugs and dirt as i can
for the celery stalks that are very
closed up like this one i will cut them
open to expose all surfaces and as you
can see i find even more insects
i clean every branch until i cannot see
any other insects and i remove any parts
with holes then they are ready to be
eaten especially in my favorite waldorf
salad
the salad has soaked and is ready to be
checked i will use my veggie brush my
veggie scrub daddy a soft sponge or even
my fingers to clean my salad
i take the leaves one by one and place
them under running water
at the same time i pass my fingers or
the sponge on each part of the leaf to
remove as many bugs as i can once that
they are individually clean i place them
on a dish towel and i dry them
i put the lettuce leaves one by one on
the bug light
and i look by transparency to fine
insects most of the leaves of this
lettuce were fine except this one that
still had a bug on it even after all
these steps
i removed the last bug
and i will roll my bug-free salad in a
humid dish towel and store it in a
ziploc bag until we're ready to eat it
later in the week
i will check my rice to go with my
crispy fish that i will prepare this
week and of course i will leave the link
to this video above and in the
description box below
as with my chickpeas i transfer my rice
in a glass container as i find it easier
to manipulate it than taking it directly
from the bag
i put a cup of rice in a sieve
then i will shake it and mix it over my
bug light
i look on my white surface if i can see
any bug
in this particular bag as you can see at
first it seems pretty okay but when i
look closely i see many bugs some even
are alive
because i found more than two bugs in a
brand new bag the jewish law states that
we have to discard the bag completely as
it is considered as being infested
i restart with a brand new bag the
process i'll redo the first two steps of
putting the rice in a sieve and
verifying over a bug light once i see
there is no bugs i put the rice on the
bug light and check between the grain of
rice for bugs
if i cannot find any bugs like in this
case i could use it as is but because i
found bugs in the previous bag i can do
an extra step that is not mandatory but
simply is an extra step to make extra
sure that the rice is bug free
i will put the rice in the water with
salt and i will agitate it and look at
the surface of the water to see if i can
find any bugs
if i don't find any bug at the surface
then it's ready to be cooked
i know i will only use the stalks of my
broccoli but i wanted to show you how
small the insects are in the florets
which makes them almost impossible to be
seen and removed fully which explains
why we cannot eat fresh florets unless
they are from a bug-free greenhouse
we received organic zucchinis and
usually they can be eaten after a quick
wash and a surface check but this
zucchini did not look normal with these
brown stains so i've decided to cut it
open and of course as soon as i removed
the top i saw this nice fellow
and being a glutton for punishment i
continued my search to see if the worm
came alone after struggling to break the
zucchini open i saw that it came with
its brother
and after breaking the zucchini even
more
i saw that he brought his cousin
needless to say that we did not eat the
zucchini and it went straight into our
compost
if you have been with me for a little
while you know that i checked my eggs
for blood spots before using them in
cakes and the like as the presence of
blood spots in the egg yolk would render
the egg not kosher and so far in all our
videos we found no blood spots
just for this video i checked another
dozen of regular eggs to see if i could
find any blood spot and i found none
i wanted to be able to show you what i'm
looking for when i talk about blood
spots and i have decided to use organic
eggs as in my experience there is a
higher chance to find blood spots in
organic free-range eggs
to check the egg i break the egg and i
sway the egg yolk in the eggshells
and finally i look at the bottom of the
egg and sure enough when i cracked my
first organic egg i found a blood spot
in the yolk
i tried a second egg
and once again i found a blood spot
in total out of the 12 organic eggs nine
had blood spots
now you know why i choose regular eggs
when i cook or bake
as you know sometimes in a pinch i will
use cake mix and when i open my box of
cake mix it looked bizarre as there was
a lot of powder at the bottom of the
cake box
i tossed and turned my bag to make sure
it was not opened and sure enough no
cake mix was leaking
to make sure that it was okay to eat it
i started by sifting part of the bag and
what was left in the sieve did not look
normal
when i put what was left in the sieve on
the bug light i saw this bug
as well as this sugar high happy fellow
when i went to sift the rest of the bag
i saw this bug
and then afterwards i saw that one
so i knew it was time to say goodbye to
my cake mix after my chickpeas have
soaked for a few hours i will take them
a handful at a time and flip my hands to
see the other side of the chickpea
i'm looking for black dots on the
surface of the chickpeas and when i find
a spot like this
i will open my chickpea and see what's
in it
in this case it was an insect that
inserted itself in the chickpea and
dried in it so without the rehydration i
would not have been able to find the bug
once the chickpeas are verified because
i only found one bug they are ready to
be used
thank you for being here it means the
world to me know that in my book you are
a superhero especially if you are here
until the end and good stomach seeing
all the bugs if you're still with me
please write in the comments i love
bug-free food so i know i was not alone
and if nobody told you today
know that you are loved and you are
enough
just the way you are
until next time
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