Question: Hypothetically, chas vshalom, if somebody eats milk and meat together, let’s say hamburger and Parmesan or some other “sharp” dairy that means you have to wait between milk and… Read more »
Category: Mixtures of meat and milk
Touching meaty hands on glasses
Question: When someone eats sometimes hands can get greasy from eating meat. If someone then touches a glass or plastic cup that has a drink in the cup, is the… Read more »
Treating an old unused pot as pareve
Question: If one has an old frying pan which was used for milk/cheese but hasn’t been used for a few months, would it be ok to treat it as a… Read more »
Dairy sink
Question: I accidentally spilled seltzer from a glass I was using when eating meat – into the dairy sink. (The glass didn’t go in just the seltzer.) There were dishes… Read more »
Clay Oven(tin/cheres)
Question: BS”D Shalom, I have plans to make a clay oven in my house, in which it will be closed, the pots will not have direct contact with it, they… Read more »
Is strainer now treif?
Question: Pasta cooked in clean dairy pot – not sure how long since used for dairy – and was accidentally poured through clean meat strainer – is strainer now treif?… Read more »
Milky plastic utensil for hot soup
Question: My son served up hot chicken soup with a milky plastic ladle. Can the ladle still be used? Answer: Thank you for your question. The ladle should not be… Read more »
Cooking food in oven together with chicken gravy
Question: Hi What is the status of food cooked in the oven at the same time as an open meat dish with gravy. I cooked a crumble at the same… Read more »
Kashrus – Gelatin
Question: Hi, what are the rules for using kosher meat gelatin with milky food? Please also advise on whether using fish gelatine is included in the prohibition to eat fish… Read more »
Does the surface under a microwave need to be kosher?
Question: Am I allowed to use a microwave on a Treif contertop or Treif table or does the surface need to be kashered? Answer: You can use a kosher microwave… Read more »
parve & dairy spoons used to stir instant coffee in dairy mug
Question: This is a two part question: 1. If I used a dairy spoon to scoop out instant coffee from the package and stir it in a dairy mug, would… Read more »
Washing Pareve Dishes
Question: If one has a dairy sink & a meat sink, where & how exactly should these pareve dishes be washed? Ok to place pareve dishes inside sink? Is there… Read more »
Cooked fish in a meat pan
Question: I cooked fish in a meat pan then put leftovers in a dairy plastic container and then put different dairy silverware in the the pot to soak. (This was… Read more »
Meat spoon used in milk frying pan
Question: Hi, I used a fleishig spoon to fry an egg in a dairy frying pan by mistake. The pan was not used for milk in the last 24 hours,… Read more »
using meat thermometer in dough
Question: Could I use a meat thermometer to measure the heat of a challa dough while baking? Will it render the challa ‘meaty’? Answer: Hello, Ideally one should not use… Read more »
Eating veggie dish from (kosher) Chinese take-out
Question: If I order a strictly noodle-and-veggie dish that they presumably cook in a fleishig wok, does that make me fleishig (6hr wait before dairy)? I believe the custom is… Read more »
Bread Machine Status
Question: I have a bread machine that I usually use to make challah dough. The measuring cups/utensils that I use for the challah ingredients (including hot ingredients) are “fleishigs”. They… Read more »
Use meat knife with Dairy Equipment pareve spread
Question: Can a meat knife be used to apply a pareve-but-dairy-equipment spread (vegan “cream cheese” that is not charif)? Does this affect the status of the knife at all? Can… Read more »
Cheese on veggies made on fleishig stovetop
Question: I cooked parve veggies in a parve pan on burners that are used for fleishig. I then put cheese on the veggies and warned up in dairy betty Crocker/microwave…. Read more »
Making pizza in a meat oven
Question: Someone made a pizza in an oven that had been used within the last 24 hours for meat with liquid. The oven was not kashered in between. They were… Read more »
Dinei mamomonot and milk/meat
Question: 1- I wanted to know what is the din of a milk pan that I made milchig pancakes in. I mistakenly used a meat spoon that may have been… Read more »
Milky mouth to fleishig sink
Question: When we were baking, my children put the mixing spoons in their mouth and then back in the mixture (after they had been drinking milk). The ingredients were pareve… Read more »
Daily cleaning of glass stovetop
Question: Dear DIN Rabbis We have a glass stovetop How do we clean the glass top daily? Years ago I had asked our Rabbi, my understanding of the response is… Read more »
Is the bread now “Fleishigs” only?
Question: 1) I left a bag of bread open for a short while on a counter where there was a plate with meat on it nearby. Is it now assur… Read more »
Household help and utensils
Question: I have a non-Jewish lady who helps me around the house. She has been instructed to keep the meat and dairy separate and usually does so. Recently, I found… Read more »
Inadvertently ate cold chicken and then drank coffee
Question: Inadvertently ate cold chicken and then drank hot coffee. Is the coffee cup treif Answer: The coffee cup is not trief, but it should be washed off with water… Read more »
Cold dairy item on cold meat plate
Question: If a cold dairy item touches a cold, clean and empty meat plate, is the dairy item ok to consume? And is the meat plate still a meat plate… Read more »
cold milk in meat pot
Question: Cold milk was sitting in the fridge in a meat pot for more than 24 hours may i use the milk and do i need to kasher the pot?… Read more »
Cold chicken in dairy plastic container
Question: Cold cooked chicken was stored in a dairy plastic Container. What is the status of the plastic dairy container and if needed can it be kashered? Thank you Answer:… Read more »
Parev food, milk pot, meat bowl
Question: Accidentally cooked pasta in a milk pot but then ate it using a meat ikea bowl – the food itself was parev but it was hot when eaten and… Read more »
Status of fleishig sink
Question: If dairy bowl not containing milk was washed in fleishig sink does sink need to be kashered? Answer: No the sink is still fleishig, because no actual milk got… Read more »
Eating fish cooked with fleishig utensils after drinking coffee in a milchig mug
Question: Is it an issue if you eat fish and salad prepared with a fleishig knife after you drink black coffee in a milchig mug? Answer: No it is not… Read more »
Hot Pareve pot, flieshig fork
Question: Cooked pasta in pareve pot. Accidentally used clean Stainless steel flieshig fork from drainer to stir food while boiling. Fork was Not used since day before. Unsure when fork… Read more »
Follow up to original urn question
Question: Hi I forgot an an important piece of information regarding my original message about the urn so I’ll repost the whole message about that and add that piece of… Read more »
Milky microwave – parev toaster
Question: Can I defrost bread in a milky microwave and then toast it in a parev toaster? Lchatchila would this be ok? And bdieved would it? Thank you Answer: It… Read more »
Urn spout fleishig?
Question: I mistakenly put the wrong hot cup under my urn this morning to make coffee. I had taken a clean one from the cabinet and put it down. I… Read more »
Regarding Steam
Question: My fleishig sink was clogged and a plumber poured hot water straight from the hot water urn into the fleishig sink. Being that the sink wasn’t clean and there… Read more »
porcelain dental work
Question: B”H Thank you for your help. My question is: If a person has porcelain dental work that they got during a time when they were not yet keeping kosher,… Read more »
Fleishig Corelle dish washed with Dairy dish sponge
Question: A guest of ours washed her fleishig dish (corelle) after eating chicken and side dishes, by mistake at our dairy sink with a dairy dish sponge…the sponge had not… Read more »
Do I need to kasher this knife?
Question: A parev knife was accidentally used to cut meat. It was then left for a few hours without being washed. It was then washed with a meaty sponge. Is… Read more »
Dairy tomato soup poured into a meaty ninja slow cooker which had not been used for a week.
Question: Dairy tomato soup poured into a meaty ninja slow cooker which had not been used for a week. Do I need to kasher the pot? Answer: Assuming that the… Read more »
Pie is cooked in a milchig toaster oven, served as desert after fleishig meal?
Question: If a pie is cooked in a milchig toaster oven, can it be served as a desert after a fleishig meal? Please provide sources if possible. Thanks so much!… Read more »
Plastic Container used to store cooked meat..
Question: Hi, I used a plastic Tupperware container to store cooked meat, is the container now considered “Meat”? Answer: Thank you for your question. The status of the container depends… Read more »
Fish and onions cooked in milchig pot and reheated on fleishig plate
Question: Hello, Thank you so much for your help! Fish that was baked in a milchig toaster oven, together with lentils/rice/onions cooked in a milchig pot were mistakenly put on… Read more »
Mixed milchigs/fleishigs
Question: Fish that was baked in a milchig toaster oven, together with lentils/rice/onions cooked in a milchig pot were mistakenly put on a fleishig corelle plate and reheated in a… Read more »
Eating salad from milk meal with meat
Question: It happens on occasion that some of my family eats milchigs and some fleishigs for supper. If it’s unclear whether a pareve dish became milchig, for example, lets say… Read more »
Vinegar and Davar Charif
Question: Lets say someone has a salad with feta cheese in a parve bowl and they use a vinegar type dressing. If when they finish the salad there is some… Read more »
Cold chicken soup in a milky pan
Question: I accidentally put cold chicken soup in a milky pan (cold). The soup has not been boiled (cold). Was wondering if we have to throw the pot? Answer: If… Read more »
Breastmilk and fleishig dishwasher
Question: Is it OK to wash baby bottles used exclusively for breast milk in fleishig dishwasher with fleishig dishes? What about hand wash with hot water in fleishig sink with… Read more »
Poured crushed garlic salt from container over pan with hot dairy
Question: If there is hot dairy being cooked in a pan, and I pour crushed garlic salt from a plastic container over it while it is cooking, is there an… Read more »