Pesach Planning: Penultimate

[gnomi]

Tomorrow night we search for the chametz, and here's where preparations stand:

Tomorrow

-- Kasher sink
-- Cover counter next to sink
-- Wash kitchen floor
-- Search for chametz

mabfan has an event tomorrow night, but what's left I can definitely handle on my own, and we'll search for chametz when he comes home.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Every year around this time, I think a Pesach glossary for goyim would be useful. Is there one on line that you can recommend?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Judaism 101 (http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm#Key) has a brief Pesach key to terms, and it also has a good general glossary (http://www.jewfaq.org/glossary.htm).

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Wow, our schedules are somewhat similar! :-) HAHAHA!

Looking forward to seeing you guys on Monday evening! I will e-mail you after Shabbat.

Chag Pesach Sameach!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I notice that you had clean and kasher the sink both listed for Tuesday. Though you already cleaned the sink, had you planned to both clean and kasher Tuesday? Is waiting 24 hours not necessary? I also see that you both cleaned and kashered the microwave oven on Monday. Was no waiting necessary?

The reason I ask is, if I wait 24 hours, the sink and microwave oven will not be ready to kasher until the middle of the night, way after the time for bedikat chametz. Do I not need to wait 24 hours after all? If I do, do I push off the bedikah until this is done, or can I do final kashering after bedikat chametz?

And I guess I should wait to cover the counter until after I kasher the sink too.

Thanks for any information and insight you might have.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I will clean around the sink one more time between the kashering and the covering of the final counter. The cleaning was actually for last night, but since I was moving things all over my planning list I think I forgot to not leave it in both places.

I wait to cover the counter because cleaning the sink is not a neat process and I tend to get water all over the place. If I cover the counter ahead, I have to recover it; if I wait, I can cover it just the once.

I used the OU's guidelines on microwaves:

Wait twenty four hours since using the microwave and make sure that the microwave is clean. One should then heat water in the microwave for twenty minutes and then also pour boiling water over the bottom of the microwave oven. If one cannot pour boiling water over the bottom of the microwave oven, then after heating water for twenty minutes one should move the container to another spot and repeat the heating procedure again. The glass plate should be either covered or replaced for Passover.

(from here (http://oukosher.org/index.php/passover/article/kashering/))

So since I hadn't used the microwave in 24 hours, I did the wash-down of the inside and then kashered it.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, thank you so much!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! Our shul had extra copies of the OU magazine with all the Pesach prep information this year, so I snagged one and it has been my guide for the things I never remember (like the process of microwave kashering, since I only do it once a year).