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Title: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 07:27:23 PM
Someone please find out for me if Tabasco is kosher or not.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Ephraim Ben Noach on August 25, 2013, 08:00:27 PM
Serious question. How could it not be Kosher?
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 08:03:42 PM
Serious question. How could it not be Kosher?

 Im just asking because I am trying to figure it out and the Rabbi from Kashrut.org did not answer yett.
 Ingredients list has distilled vinegar that could mean a number of different things.
 


 (Sorry I mean the Tabasco sauce)
http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco-products/sauces/tabasco-original-red-sauce/

 How its made, the only thing I am concerned about is the distilled vinegar,
http://www.wimp.com/tabascosauce/
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 08:09:47 PM
OOps Never-mind, I remember now, it IS Kosher as I have seen it in a Glatt-Kosher restaurant with very good Hasgaha. Now the only question is, is it Kosher for Passover?
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on August 25, 2013, 10:57:52 PM
OOps Never-mind, I remember now, it IS Kosher as I have seen it in a Glatt-Kosher restaurant with very good Hasgaha. Now the only question is, is it Kosher for Passover?
Not kosher for pesach,but kosher during year.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 11:11:39 PM
Not kosher for pesach,but kosher during year.

 Ok thank you. Why not Kosher Le'Pessah? Is the vinegar from wheat? Not KLP in the sense of needs to be thrown away or in the sense of just put away till after Pessah?
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on August 25, 2013, 11:19:56 PM
Ok thank you. Why not Kosher Le'Pessah? Is the vinegar from wheat? Not KLP in the sense of needs to be thrown away or in the sense of just put away till after Pessah?
It is not kosher for pesach because of the vinegar.
Vinegar needs to be be special kosher foe pesach hechsher this why ketchup & mayonaise need special hechsherim for pesach.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 11:38:18 PM
It is not kosher for pesach because of the vinegar.
Vinegar needs to be be special kosher foe pesach hechsher this why ketchup & mayonaise need special hechsherim for pesach.

 I dont think all. It depends from where it is derived. For example if its apple its NP.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 25, 2013, 11:45:40 PM
Also what about vinager that is derived from grapes. Is their an issue of Yayin Nesach thus not Kosher all together?
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on August 25, 2013, 11:59:20 PM
Also what about vinager that is derived from grapes. Is their an issue of Yayin Nesach thus not Kosher all together?
If it has a hechsher no problem.
Vinegar must have a hechsher.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 26, 2013, 07:53:08 PM
If it has a hechsher no problem.
Vinegar must have a hechsher.

 It is just K in this case (of Tabasco sauce from that company) but it is Kosher as is known.

 
 I think it depends what vinegar. For example if it is just "Vinegar" labelled according to Kashrut.org it is Kosher Le Pessah ( I will double check it again)
 
 Ok this on the list   (Pessah 2013)

Vinegar (when listed alone)
(when listed on ingredient
panel on a packaged product)


 Its Kosher LePessah for both Sefardim and Askenasim.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 26, 2013, 08:04:12 PM
Also on list

Apple Cider Vinegar
(when listed on ingredient
panel on a packaged
product)


Rice Vinegar
(when listed on ingredient
panel on a packaged
product)                                For Sefardim (or those who eat Kitniyot).


Balsamic Vinegar
Must be Kosher
Supervised or less than
1/6th (when listed on
ingredient panel on a
packaged product)


Soo I take it that its Balsamic Vinegar that needs a proper Hasgaha and is derived from grapes. I will perhaps do a little more research.
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on August 26, 2013, 08:06:06 PM
Balsamic vinegar (Italian: aceto balsamico) is a condiment originating from Italy.
The original traditional product (Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale), made from a reduction of cooked white Trebbiano grape juice and not a vinegar in the usual sense,

 (From Wiki).
Title: Re: Is Tabasco Kosher?
Post by: ChabadKahanist on August 26, 2013, 11:10:07 PM
It is just K in this case (of Tabasco sauce from that company) but it is Kosher as is known.

 
 I think it depends what vinegar. For example if it is just "Vinegar" labelled according to Kashrut.org it is Kosher Le Pessah ( I will double check it again)
 
 Ok this on the list   (Pessah 2013)

Vinegar (when listed alone)
(when listed on ingredient
panel on a packaged product)


 Its Kosher LePessah for both Sefardim and Askenasim.
Tabasco is known to be kosher & is used by various kashrus organizations it is quite possible that even with a plain k it may be under a kashrus oranization & that the company never changed the label .
As far as I have seen working in the field all kashrus angencies insist on a hechsher on all vinegars.