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Kashering Stovetops for Pesach
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer.
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How do I kasher my stovetop for Pesach? Now
there are different types of stovetops. Some
people have a gas burner. With a gas stovetop,
the main thing to kasher is the stovetop grate.
The rest of it just needs to be covered, so you
just cover aluminum foil over the middle section
of the stovetop, and the stovetop grate you could
put into your oven. When you kasher your oven,
you could kasher that along with it, even if
your oven only gets to 550. For the stovetop,
that's no problem. All it needs is libun kal. The
550 would certainly qualify for it. You don't have
to kasher the burner part where the flames come
out. The flames anyway will burn up everything
there, and even if there would be something still
on there, nothing touches the food, so that's not
an issue. Then that's how you do a gas stovetop.
If you have an old-style electric burner where
the burner is exposed, it just gets red-hot, and
turning on that burner, once the metal gets red,
that'll be the libun gamur. That completely
kashers that. And again, the middle sections
of the stove you would put down aluminum foil in
case something falls there, it would be covered.
If you have the newer type of glass top stoves,
which can also don't kasher glass for Pesach,
so therefore you should cover it. How do
you cover it? They sell mats that you can
purchase that were meant to cover over the glass
tops, different materials, either fiberglass or
silicone. There are also discs you could buy.
There's something called induction discs,
also called diffuser discs, different names for
the different types. You put them on top of the
burner, and then you put your pot on top of that,
and that will act as your blech, so to speak. The
other areas of the stove that you won't be
using, just cover that with aluminum foil.