Can you please give us general guidelines as to which soups are OK to have in unsupervised restaurants? E.g., does can it have any beans or pasta? Or it must be only vegetables?
Pasta is not a problem because it is categorized as Pat Palter.
Beans would be a problem unless puréed.
All the creamed soups are ok if you confirm the ingredients or that they’re vegan.
In a private restaurant you can’t just trust the owner that something is vegan. You can trust a written menu or website claiming vegan or specifying the ingredients as they will be very careful due to allergy lawsuits.
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Thanks! If pasta is considered pat palter, can we order pasta in a non certified restaurant if the rest of the ingredients are kosher?
Yes. But you need to make sure they use a clean pot. Not when they make the pasta itself (as they will always use a clean pot for that), but rather when they warm it up and add the additives that you choose. Some of these places move so much pasta and they can just use the same pot that they used for pasta with meatballs or something. The goal is not to be able to taste any of the non-kosher items.
When is a clean pot not enough and when must the pot actually be kashered via hagala or libun? Frying pans?
Also how about potatoes in the soup? Issue of bishul akum?
Yes if not puréed
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