Hello fellow #Pesach #Passover celebrators. I'm going to let those of you who go all-out to make your house kosher for Passover in on a little secret that I wish someone had told me decades ago when I was a young frummie:

"Invisible chametz" only matters on surfaces that are going to touch food during the holiday.

Let me explain by way of examples…
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@jik TIL what chametz is, and the word "frummie"., thanks a lot for that thread!

Am I right to assume that "frum" is close in meaning to the german "fromm"?

@jollyorc I suspect so. "Frum" is a Yiddish word, and there's a lot of German absorbed into Yiddish, so it would not surprise me if that's where the Yiddish word came from.

@jik just looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frum, and indeed, it is the equivalent to the same-sounding German word.

And slightly amused that the opposite is frei, as "Fromm und frei" is a combination is sort of a staple self-description for some folks over here... ;)

Frum - Wikipedia