Question:
If you cut a dvar charif like an onion with a meaty knife and then eat the onion, are you then meaty and have to wait before eating milky?
Answer:
You do not have to wait. The reason is because the absorbed taste that was eaten is not strong, as it is only nat bar nat.
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Sources:
R’ A. Eiger Y:D 89 on Shach 19, Igros Moshe Y:D 2-26, Kovetz M’bais Levi (Binyonei Y:D) pg. 34, Poskim. This applies even though we usually consider the taste of an onion to be a first degree taste, for this we are lenient.
