[Avodah] [Areivim] Dog Food For Pesach

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:45:28AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> : >I wonder if the problem is that many of the kinds of kibble aren't
> : >actually less than 50% wheat and water, and it's a difference in
> : >metzi'us issue.
> 
> : Next time you're at the supermarket go look at the various brands of
> : cat and dog food, and see if you can find one that lists a grain as one
> : of the first two or three ingredients...
> 
> First find one that lists each of the kinds of chunks in the mix, and
> then we can discuss it. For that matter, we're talking about dough, not
> wheat -- do they list the water content?

Since it's a solid, most the water is presumably baked out.  And I've
never seen one where a grain is high enough on the list to make the
mixture mostly chametz, even counting all the water the grain could
possibly have absorbed.


> Are you assuming that easily sorted items, like the red kibble from the
> brown, still combine as a taaroves?

In my experience (with cat rather than dog food) it's all one colour.
I assume the ingredients are all mixed into a dough, cut into little
bits, and baked.   Is dog food that different?

PS: I assume we're talking about dry (bagged) food, rather than wet
(canned); the latter has even less grain content, and looking at it
is enough to tell that whatever chametz it contains is far less than
half.

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