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I have found your answers very enlightening, but I have a few questions about some of them. 1. Why don't you have to search for chametz in your books if you learn while you are eating. 2. Why can a Sephardi cooking with some kitniyot decide to make a larger amount because of the Ashkenazim who are coming over. Isn't this being mevatel the issur, since the Sephardi is purposely increasing the amount for the guests (it's not as if the guests just happened to drop by) 3. So can I assume that if my microwave has plastic sides, it doesn't need to be kashered? (since you have stated many times, that plastic doesn't absorb). 4. How do we know what materials absorb and which don't. 5. Finally, a totally different question. In my neighborhood there is a grocery that has a take-out section under Conservative hashgacha. So I understand that it is forbidden to by this food. But about 100 feet from where the takeout section is, there is a packaged food section, and included here are items from the take-out section, packaged with the ingredients on them (all made in the same kitchen). How is is that it is permitted to buy this food, relying on the ingredients, but not the food at the take-out coiunter. What is the halakhic difference between the two purchases?
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Answered by Aaron Abadi1) Will you find a cookie or a pretzel? No. You'll find crumbs. we don't search for crumbs. 2) It's what the recipe call for. If the recipe called for non-Kitniyot, he would follow that. He is not mixing in order to be Mevatel. 3) It still needs to be clean. What about the metal parts? Are there NO metal parts? 4) look at our laws of Kashering. 5) If it is a supermarket, they would not lie on the packaging. If it's a private grocery, then you can't buy the packaged either, without further research & confirmation. AA