Recently a milk, teflon fry pan was washed in a dishwasher with several meat pots. None of the pots (neither the milk pan, nor the meat pots) were ben yomo when they were used. At the time they were washed they had all been used with parve food – vegetables, including an onion. The dishwasher is used only for meat dishes. At the time of washing there was no meat anything in the dishwasher. What is the status of the milk frypan and the status of the other pots.
Please send sources.
Thank you.
Answer:
There is no problem with any of the dishes.
Because the pots were clean of actual meat or milk, there is no concern of the taste of meat mixing with the dairy dishes, and vice versa.
Even if the pots are dirty, there is a dispute among poskim (the Rema and the Shach) concerning the power of iruy keli rishon to spread taste; there is also the issue of detergent added to the dishwasher, making everything pagum.
If the pots are clean, however, there is no concern.
See Iggros Moshe, Yoreh De’ah Vol. 2 no. 28-29.
