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Real croutons such that you would make yourself or have in a restaurant would be hamotzi. It's just regular bread that was cut into pieces (Shulchan Aruch O.C 165:10. Osem makes a number of crouto …

Times: Only about 15 percent of people who buy kosher do it for religious reasons, according to Mintel, a research group that last year produced a report on the kosher food explosion. …

Even if in reality the food is unkosher, since there is eid echad saying it is kosher, the halacha is that the product is permitted and thereby there is no timtum halev. …

Please refer to the final halacha in b'tzias hapas. The Shulchan Aruch rules that pashtida (dough filled with various fillings including meat, fish or cheese) is hamotzi even as a snack. The Mishna …

While it is true that the Shulchan Aruch cited by Alex says to make a shehakol, the reasoning given in the mishna berurah is using outdated metzius, since hearts of palm is an industry where trees are …

To answer your question as asked, based on the mechaber in 261:4 you may not keep food with a shehiya issue on the "fire" from the time you accept Shabbos. … This would allow you to do shehiya no matter how cooked the food is. …

Lemons are, according to some, a davar charif. The assumption is that a knife cut can transfer into the thickness of a lemon slice not only what's on the outside of the knife, but even what is absorb …

The BH recommends eating the haetz first, nevertheless, since eating after may render the food tafel to the schnapps] …

This is an edit of my original answer. There are two reasons for not reading "menus". First, so you don't find a mistake and correct it. Secondly, so you won't come to read Shtaros. So, although n …

It seems that the issur is to read it out loud. Only by actual shtaros is it assur to look at (that seems to be the reading of the mechaber).

Another way of getting out of the problem of atu shtarei chovos is to write it in Hebrew. (Aruch Hashulchan 307:10)

As you probably know, whether you make a bracha after going to the bathroom could be a mi.yodeya question in its own right. The basis for not talking after netilas yadayim is "teikef l'netilah seudah …

On a strict halachic basis, it would allow a person to Eat with someone who is eating a food of an opposite milk/meat type (not necessary for kosher/treif as we aren't concerned for sharing) Eat with …

As long as the original salt/blood mixture is washed off (which is required of the Koshering agency), you can re-salt without the kashering requirements. (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 69:20)

Soap makes the tranferring food taste bad (taam lifgam). Can glass even become not kosher? Dishwashers are more complex, though I think there is enough to mitigate the concern there as well. …