Holiday homes with a kosher kitchen
"Kosher kitchen" covers an enormous range, from a host who keeps kosher themselves and has two of everything, to an ordinary kitchen you are welcome to kasher yourself. Both can be exactly right — they are simply not the same thing, and the gap between them is where holidays go wrong.
Listings on Kbnbs set out what is actually there: whether milk and meat are separate, whether there are dedicated ovens or a single one, what the sinks and worktops are, and whether the host kashers before guests arrive. Read that section rather than the headline, and ask where anything is ambiguous — no host minds the question, and every host would rather answer it in advance.
What to check before you book
- Separate sinks and drainers, or one sink with inserts — ask which, they are not equivalent.
- One oven or two, and whether either is dedicated to meat or milk.
- Worktop material, which decides whether it can be kashered at all.
- Whose hechsher the host keeps, if that matters to you. It is a fair question and a normal one.
