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How do I kasher my oven for Pesach?👀
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer. Got Pesach questions? Drop them in the comments!
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How do I kasher my oven for Pesach?
Now, if you have a self-clean oven,
that's great. Just put on the self-clean
cycle. You could do a 3-hour or 4-hour
cycle. It doesn't have to be the longest
cycle. That will get it up to temperature,
and it will be kashered. But, if you used it with
chametz within 24 hours, technically speaking,
it will be kashered because it's libun gamur
(burning). However, it is recommended to not
use it for chametz beforehand for 24 hours,
even though you are doing libun gamur on it,
because there are still questions in terms of
the proper way to kasher even when you're using
a self-clean oven. So to avoid all problems,
it is best to not use it for 24 hours prior to
kashering. If you don't have the luxury of
waiting 24 hours, like you just moved into
an Airbnb and you need to kasher right away, you
can do the self-clean even if it might have been
used within 24 hours. If you have a regular oven,
now here it is imperative that you wait first 24
hours. You should clean it with a costic cleaner
like those off cleaners because otherwise the
libun doesn't necessarily burn out all the chametz
and therefore at least you'll use a costic which
will make it inedible. After you have it perfectly
clean, you turn it up to the highest temperature,
which is usually 550 or more and you let it burn
out for at least an hour at that temperature.
And this is what's known as a libul kal. Many
poskim in cases where a person can't do a libun
gamur on their oven, they accept this as well.
And then now your oven is kosher for Pesach.