[llimos]

Jewish law requires some new utensils to be ritually immersed in water before use[1]. There are differences of opinion around electrical appliances, but I have successfully dunked toasters, cheese toasters, and many other small appliances, let them dry for a few days, and never had any issues.

In fact, had OP found this[2] article, they would have seen that

> Practice has demonstrated that immersion generally does not harm most equipment if allowed three days to dry out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevilat_Kelim

[2] https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-kosher/tevilas-keilim-a-p...

[StrictDabbler]

The drying is straightforward, water evaporates, but do you maintain a personal mikveh?

I'm reading through the requirements and this is a serious piece of plumbing, expensive to install at home.

But it has such a purifying ritual function that I think showing up at a communal mikva'ot with a toaster would be awkward.

Does everybody expect that some people will have toasters? You take out your dental bridge and your earrings, trim your nails and your calluses, pick up the toaster and walk on in?

These facilities mostly resemble nice spas.

I'm not mocking the belief here, just curious what it's like as a human participating. If I were trying to purify a toaster I'd pour deionized water into a rubber tub but I gather that doesn't count.

Edit:

To answer my own question, it looks like communal mikva'ots are built with separate sections similar to a sink just for the immersion of things like dishes and toasters and don't require as much personal cleaning, so that's simple and human. As these things usually are.

[Alupis]

Are appliances such as toasters considered a culinary utensil?

Kitchen Utensil appears to be defined as `A kitchen utensil is a small hand-held tool used for food preparation.`[1]. Perhaps you don't actually need to submerge electronic appliances in water...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_utensil

[llimos]

Broadly, it's anything made from metal or glass that serves a food-related purpose, is multi-use, and comes in direct contact with food (or drink).

[perihelions]

Sorry for digressing, but what's a cheese toaster? That sounds exceedingly interesting.

[jajko]

I'd expect regular sandwich toaster with humongous amount of cheese in between bread. Not a bad thing per se, poor/busy man's source of calzones, just not a good way to make regular lunches/dinners since nothing that comes out is very healthy in non-small amounts.

[llimos]

yep, that's what I meant

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Maybe a raclette machine?

https://www.amazon.fr/raclette-electrique/s?k=raclette+elect...

[seizethecheese]

Sounds like a toaster oven to me