What do you use to line shelves in cabinets

amother

Darkblue

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 1:46 pm

I put my dishes away clean. There is no chametz (or any crumbs of any kind) in the cabinets. And no shelf liner.

amother

Pearl

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 1:56 pm

amother [ Catmint ] wrote:

It’s a chumra ask your LOR but my rav holds I don’t have to so long as the space is cleaned out throughly and sprayed.

If it something you are okay with then by all means continue to do it but it added a tremendous amount of unnecessary stress to my already hectic pesach prep so I let it go.

It was my own personal yitzias mitzrayim and I’ve never looked back

What about covering the backsplash? I don't do that either but I saw posters mentioning that the backsplash has to be covered. Is it required?
Seems like I've got some new questions for the Rav this year.... I feel so ignorant.

amother

Canary

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:42 pm

amother [ Pearl ] wrote:

Backsplash is def a chumrah.
We cover backsplash and also cover undersides of all cabinets bec of steam.
we are in the minority.

Chayalle

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:44 pm

amother [ Pearl ] wrote:

My parents did but we don't. Our Rav holds it's not necessary even L'Chumrah (and he's super machmir on other things, like hot-stone for kashering stainless sinks...)

pause

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:44 pm

amother [ Canary ] wrote:

Backsplash is def a chumrah.
We cover backsplash and also cover undersides of all cabinets bec of steam.
we are in the minority.

We also cover backsplash and under cabinets because of heat from stuff on the counters.

pause

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:44 pm

Chayalle wrote:

My parents did but we don't. Our Rav holds it's not necessary even L'Chumrah (and he's super machmir on other things, like hot-stone for kashering stainless sinks...)

That's machmir? I thought that's how it must be done.

scruffy

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:50 pm

pause wrote:

That's machmir? I thought that's how it must be done.

We just pour boiling water after the sinks sit for 24 hours

Bnei Berak 10

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:51 pm

Chayalle wrote:

Reminds me of a friend who never made Pesach, they go to hotels... Her son got married, and...saw his in-laws kitchen all plastered up in foil and coverings, he'd never seen anything like it. He thought someone went crazy....

But really it's a chumrah. Asking your Rav is a good idea.

Sounds a bit sad never to be at home for Pesach but always in a hotel. So basically the son has no idea of what a jewish home looked like at Pesach.

amother

Canary

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:56 pm

pause wrote:

That's machmir? I thought that's how it must be done.

If you put in an insert you don’t have to kasher at all…
My parents only used hot water from a kli rishon

amother

Darkblue

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 2:59 pm

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Sounds a bit sad never to be at home for Pesach but always in a hotel. So basically the son has no idea of what a jewish home looked like at Pesach.

No, there doesn't have to be a lot of foil. Many people follow family customs or stringencies to cover things which do not require covering.

amother

Canary

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 3:01 pm

amother [ Darkblue ] wrote:

No, there doesn't have to be a lot of foil. Many people follow family customs or stringencies to cover things which do not require covering.

One reason ppl don’t mish is bec minhagim vary so greatly

amother

Pearl

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 3:01 pm

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Sounds a bit sad never to be at home for Pesach but always in a hotel. So basically the son has no idea of what a jewish home looked like at Pesach.

Why sad? Different strokes for different folks.
There's no one specific look how a jewish home looks like on pesach.

Chayalle

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 3:13 pm

pause wrote:

That's machmir? I thought that's how it must be done.

My parents just poured boiling water over stainless sink, no hot stone. Ditto for in-laws. Hot stone/brick is a more machmir way of doing it (but our Rav holds it's necessary). Alternatively, he holds you can boil up water in the sink and put in an immersion heater till the water in the sink bubbles (I tried doing this one year and blew my fuses and never tried it again.)

pause

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 3:41 pm

amother [ Canary ] wrote:

If you put in an insert you don’t have to kasher at all…
My parents only used hot water from a kli rishon

What about the hot water that rises into the insert from the chometz sink underneath?

amother

Canary

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 3:49 pm

pause wrote:

What about the hot water that rises into the insert from the chometz sink underneath?

You clean it really well with amona. And lift it up on rack.

This is what I’m relying on (written by my rav)

frizet

Wed, Apr 06 2022, 5:51 pm

I buy a roll of shelf liner from the grocery. I cut it to size and just put it down. No tape

baltomom

Thu, Apr 07 2022, 12:51 am

A couple of years ago I bought rolls of rubber shelf liner (something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-C.....;th=1) and cut pieces to fit my various shelves/drawers. I put it away after Pesach (In ziploc bags labeled with which cabinet it's for) and then it's easy to lay it back out the next year. So much easier than cutting and taping shelving paper!