From: Anonymous2
To: "'Daniel M. Berry'" <dberry@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: RE: try again RE: a Question about Kosher Kitchens
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 08:28:50 +0300

Anonymous (delete one): YES  

Problem:

You want to build a new kitchen in an existing synagogue. Therefore, you do
not have the freedom to change the walls. The synagogue used to have just
one kitchen in which one prepared both meat and dairy meals, although at
different times. Now the possibility exists to take space from rooms
adjacent to the current kitchen to make multiple kitchens.
The kitchens should be big enough to allow cooking meals for up to 50 people
for a meat meal and up to 25 people for a dairy meal. The cooks expect at
least one of each of the following appliances or furniture items, whether
movable or built in: dishwasher (DW), sink with cold and hot water faucets,
oven, range (i.e., burners for cooking), heat resistant surface, microwave
oven (M/W), food preparation countertop, refrigerator, freezer, pantry for
storing dry goods, cupboard for storing dishes and cooking pans, drawer for
storing eating and cooking utensils, chair for sitting on, bin for
recyclable items, and bin for compostable waste.

Question:

Please list from one to three very important requirements for the kitchen or
kitchens to satisfy. If you wish, you may explain why any of the
requirements is important.

1. There should be proper ventilation to prevent cooking odors from getting
to the prayer area, and for the workers comfort.


2. Since some of the users may be unfamiliar with all of the rules of
kashrut, if possible budget-wise, there should be total separation of the
dairy and meat facilities, even when there could be, for example, a shared
refrigerator. Better to duplicate in each kitchen, so inexperienced users
have no chance to ruin the kashrut. For the same reason, the dishes,
silverware, and utensils in each kitchen should be easily and clearly
distinguishable so there is no possibility of mixing dairy and meat
utensils, silverware, or dishes.

3.

Later, we will send you two plans and ask you evaluate these plans against a
bunch of requirements that we will have gotten from you and others being
asked to provide requirement. We will ask you also to triage each of the
bunch of requirements as being absolutely necessary, being nice, or being
absolutely unnecessary.