With the huge quantity of spreads, dips, condiments, soups, and blintzes they prepare for Pesach, kashering the Williamsburg Tuv Taam factory is a major, mega, super-event!, Bringing Pesach to the Masses,With the huge quantity of spreads, dips, condiments, soups, and blintzes they prepare for Pesach, kashering the Williamsburg Tuv Taam factory is a major, mega, super-event!
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I t’s a snowy Shevat day and I haven’t started thinking about Pesach cleaning yet. However at Tuv Taam they’re way ahead of the game. With the amount of spreads dips condiments soups and blintzes they prepare for Pesach it’s time to begin kashering!
Sam general manager at Tuv Taam welcomes the Mishpacha team into Tuv Taam’s sprawling enterprise housed in a three-story building on nearly an entire block in Williamsburg New York. As he leads us through this maze of a building we get to see the frenzy of activity that makes kashering such a tedious yet exciting event.
Our first stop is the steaming kitchen where huge 60-80 gallon kettles are filled to the brim with boiling hot water. Here we meet Rabbi Yosef Dovid Chanowitz the OK’s kashering expert and Itzik Kind production manager at Tuv Taam. Both have nets over their hair as do the rest of the production workers.
Rabbi Chanowitz who has been kashering production facilities for several weeks now is quite schooled in protective gear for this hands-on operation. Wearing knee-high boots rubber gloves that reach past his elbows and a heavy black apron he is well prepared.
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