The OU is a great organization. But the heimishe hechsherim are good, too. They provide additional oversight, especially as far as bishul yisroel goes. A great example is waffles. The OU position is that waffles are not oleh al shulchan melachim. Others disagree, as brought down in the great Sefer Shulchan Melachim, by Rav Bar Shalom. There, he says waffles are oleh. An OU waffle goes by the lenient opinion; there’s no mashgiach in an Eggo factory lighting fires. But a heimishe brand like Smacking Good or Frankel’s likely would have a mashgiach turning on the fires there.
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