[Avodah] Kashrus

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

Isaac Balbin: 
> They categorise some products as eg Pareve Mehadrin (P#) and others as
> Pareve Kosher (P) viz American vs European models.
 
When I learned YD with R Yosef Weiss, he was quite cynical about the
quality of commercial enterprises in general.
 
IOW if you think "home-cooking" bests 
Commercial Cooking in terms of taste and quality of ingredients, then
the same would to for Kashrius too.
 
IOW a conscientious Baal habayis or Ba'alebuste 
Would probably be more throrough than a profit motive enterprise. [These
were not his words but his idea]
 
Today's commercial humros are a form of "trickle-down" quality. The
thinking is that if one sets the bar high-enough in commercial
establishments, even given the usual shortcuts taken, the result will
be an acceptable quality.
 
I'm not saying this is a good idea or a bad idea, it's just the prevailing
idea! :-).
 
Humros are installed the way the military uses redundancy in order to
ensure success in the mission
 
KT 
RRW 
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