[Avodah] kashering chumras

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, February 15, 2008 1:09 pm, Rn Shayna Livia Korb wrote:
: So he concluded - which is really good internal logic - that kashering
: means that you make something as hot as it would ever be, and then a
: little more - so the hottest stuff would ever be in your kitchen is
: boiling, and then you make it a little more with the metal. Because of
: this conclusion, at the end of kashering his oven, he throws a match
in.
: Maximum temperature it can go, plus a little more.

This is how I understood qabalaso kakh polto. With the added bit that
since you can't guarantee exact equality ("kakh") you have to
overshoot.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha