Scrub,
You asked me some non-sports questions a few weeks ago and I could not find the old thread. I apologize for the delayed reasons as I have been very busy. Here goes my attempt at a response.
1. I live in Salt Lake City but have never actually visited BYU. I attended some Utah home games against BYU in the past. You mentioned some dairy product from Provo.
2. I am not a big dairy person, but I sometimes eat/drink milk, yogurt, kefir and cheese. I prefer Gouda and Muenster cheese.
3. You asked a really good question about some BYU or Provo cream thing but I don't know the specifics whether that is a regular milk, a sweet cream, a mixed cream derived from whey and milk or an ice cream. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein of blessed memory made a religious ruling that regular unflavored milk from the US, due to US standards amd regulation on food, could be eaten/drank by Jews without needing a formal kosher certification for a hechsher. I accept this leniency but Chassidic Jews and many stricter orthodox Jews will only drink milk that is both certified kosher and Cholev Yisroel. Processed dairy such as cheeses, yogurt, whey protein, ice cream etc must have a reliable kosher certification. With cream, it gets very confusing. If it was pure sweet cream, it would not need a certification, acvording to my understandong of Rabbi Feinstein's ruling. However, how do you know something is pure sweat cream and not mixed with processed whey? Therefore, in many cases, I would probably not drink cream that was not marked kosher.
4. Here is a link to many things you never really wanted to know about kosher dietary laws for dairy on when kosher certifications are neded, which is a longer answer to your question. Stam refers to regular milk that modern orthodox Jews like me could drink without a kosher certification, if we follow Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's lenient ruling. Cholev Yisrael refers to milk and other dairy that follows the stricter rules. https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/retail-dairy-products-whats-hows-and-whys/
You asked me some non-sports questions a few weeks ago and I could not find the old thread. I apologize for the delayed reasons as I have been very busy. Here goes my attempt at a response.
1. I live in Salt Lake City but have never actually visited BYU. I attended some Utah home games against BYU in the past. You mentioned some dairy product from Provo.
2. I am not a big dairy person, but I sometimes eat/drink milk, yogurt, kefir and cheese. I prefer Gouda and Muenster cheese.
3. You asked a really good question about some BYU or Provo cream thing but I don't know the specifics whether that is a regular milk, a sweet cream, a mixed cream derived from whey and milk or an ice cream. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein of blessed memory made a religious ruling that regular unflavored milk from the US, due to US standards amd regulation on food, could be eaten/drank by Jews without needing a formal kosher certification for a hechsher. I accept this leniency but Chassidic Jews and many stricter orthodox Jews will only drink milk that is both certified kosher and Cholev Yisroel. Processed dairy such as cheeses, yogurt, whey protein, ice cream etc must have a reliable kosher certification. With cream, it gets very confusing. If it was pure sweet cream, it would not need a certification, acvording to my understandong of Rabbi Feinstein's ruling. However, how do you know something is pure sweat cream and not mixed with processed whey? Therefore, in many cases, I would probably not drink cream that was not marked kosher.
4. Here is a link to many things you never really wanted to know about kosher dietary laws for dairy on when kosher certifications are neded, which is a longer answer to your question. Stam refers to regular milk that modern orthodox Jews like me could drink without a kosher certification, if we follow Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's lenient ruling. Cholev Yisrael refers to milk and other dairy that follows the stricter rules. https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/retail-dairy-products-whats-hows-and-whys/
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