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I left my honey jar in the succah.
This was a really really stupid thing to do, because of ANTS.
Next time I saw the honey jar it was seething with ants and you couldn't see the honey because of the drowned ants clogging it. Gross.
The most efficient way of sorting this out is to pour boiling water over the whole lot (ants in my honey do not count as Animals Jen Has Ethical Concerns About).
But in general Ants=Problematically Not Kosher and Boiling Water=Potential For Kashrut Problems so Ants+Boiling Water = Potentially A Very Bad Idea If I Ever Want To Use That Jar Again. And I do because it's cute and it was a present.
Well, hooray for geeky rabbis who are online pretty much right after havdalah and jolly well know their stuff.
Yoreh Deah 81:8, is conveniently most of the answer. Rough translation: Honey from bees is permitted, even if the bees' bodies are mixed up with it, and when we separate the honey from them you can heat it and boil it and that is fine because they are FREAKING GROSS.
So I can pour boiling water on the horrible ants to get my honey jar clean, and that doesn't make the honey jar treif because honey full of ants is not even remotely like food, and "treif" is a food concept.
You hear that, ants? You are so in trouble.
This was a really really stupid thing to do, because of ANTS.
Next time I saw the honey jar it was seething with ants and you couldn't see the honey because of the drowned ants clogging it. Gross.
The most efficient way of sorting this out is to pour boiling water over the whole lot (ants in my honey do not count as Animals Jen Has Ethical Concerns About).
But in general Ants=Problematically Not Kosher and Boiling Water=Potential For Kashrut Problems so Ants+Boiling Water = Potentially A Very Bad Idea If I Ever Want To Use That Jar Again. And I do because it's cute and it was a present.
Well, hooray for geeky rabbis who are online pretty much right after havdalah and jolly well know their stuff.
Yoreh Deah 81:8, is conveniently most of the answer. Rough translation: Honey from bees is permitted, even if the bees' bodies are mixed up with it, and when we separate the honey from them you can heat it and boil it and that is fine because they are FREAKING GROSS.
So I can pour boiling water on the horrible ants to get my honey jar clean, and that doesn't make the honey jar treif because honey full of ants is not even remotely like food, and "treif" is a food concept.
You hear that, ants? You are so in trouble.