Question:
I accidentally put sachlav a milk drink into a meat microwave and it started to foam around 30-45 seconds into the microwave. The foam got on the microwave circle plate. Do I need to kosher the microwave? And if so how? Also would the din be different if the drink wasn’t hot enough to the touch that I would have to remove my finger from it?
Answer:
The microwave has to be kashered. Wipe out all the surfaces in the microwave, including the plate, and make sure they are all clean. Then wait 24 hrs. and put a bowl of water inside it and boil it until the microwave fills with steam.
Sources:
Pischei Halacha pg 234.
Additional reading:
- Heating Food in Treif Microwave
- Meaty soup in milky microwave
- Fleishig microwave that ws used for dairy farina that spilled over, can it be kashered?
- Using Microwave Ovens for Dairy and Meat
- Noodles with cheese put in fleishig bowl in milchig microwave
- kashrus-microwave
- Hot chicken placed in a dairy Tupperware container